Last Sunday, Mo. Storm preached on Thomas the Apostle, also known as "Doubting Thomas." From the sermon:
Doubt deepens our faith. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to let ourselves call comfortable assumptions into question. The 20th century German theologian Paul Tillich, who was one of the first professors to be fired from his university at the behest of the Nazi party (which is how he came to be here at Union Seminary in NY), Tillich said that the opposite of faith isn’t doubt, but certainty. And he, living when he did, would know. Certainty closes minds. Doubt, opens them. Certainty crowds out other ideas. Doubt creates space for them.
Happy reading (she'll try to add a recording next week), and happy Doubting Thomas Sunday.
