Now & Then
I am one of those Christians that Atheists and Agnostics make fun of. I am Christian in large part because I was raised in the church. Mostly, I've never questioned the existence of God because I'd seen Him at work too much to deny Him. What my critics might not understand is that just because I grew up in the church doesn't mean that I was always Johnny Do-Good Christian, as I'm sure my early college friends can attest to. And, there is a different kind of denial, which is just walking away from God. In my late teens and early twenties, that is how I denied God's existence, by walking away. I remember a time where I lived on an Native American reservation. I visited some people that lived in a run-down house with no windows. Meaning, there were places for the windows to go, but there were no panes of glass, just empty frames letting in the elements. In many ways that house mirrored my life back then. It was in disrepair, incomplete, and vulnerable. As I r...