Talks, Sermons and Reflections

I’ve been speaking with several people over the past few months about the supernatural. They say something like this: “I am drawn to Jesus’ teaching – about loving your neighbour as yourself and doing to the other what you would want them to do to you, the so-called golden rule – but I struggle with the talk about God, and things like the   virgin birth and the resurrection, and that Jesus is the Son of God in a unique way. Of course, I would like to think that there is something after death, but I can’t because this world is all that there is.” I have huge respect for people who think like that. They have an intellectual integrity which overrides any wishful thinking. It is difficult to know how we can answer the person who cannot believe in anything that cannot be ‘proved’ scientifically through observation. I might shrink from the deterministic universe that their thinking presupposes, where everything that happens must have a physical cause. I might proclaim that I am more ...