'I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.'
If you listen to the critiques of religion in the world today, they fall into two basic categories. The first criticism is that religious people are hypocritical. This is true. We are hypocrites. We are sinners. We are fallen beings who belong to messed-up institutions. We do not always (or even most of the time) live up to our highest ideals.
Read full transcript...Where did you begin? Where did your story--the story of you--begin?
Is it a birth story? Did you begin the night you were pressed upon by waves of fierce contractions, forcibly evicted from the dark womb to the light of this world?
Did you begin in a sweaty, lusty liaison between your parents (God forbid we think about that on a Sunday morning!), when your own unique mix of DNA was created?
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