Tag Archives: Doubt

Children Wrestling with Faith & Doubt

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2014

Alice Munro’s “Age of Faith” is a powerful portrait of how children turn to God–and also why they turn away.

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Tormented, Torn & Twisted with Doubt

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2014

In Levertov’s poem on St. Thomas, she links his doubts with that of the father of the demon-possessed son who comes to Jesus.

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Reach Out, Like Thomas, into the Darkness

By Robin Bates | Published: April 15, 2012

R. S. Thomas’s poem about religious doubt calls for a leap of faith in the midst of darkness.

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Let Me Not Love Thee If I Love Thee Not

By Robin Bates | Published: May 22, 2011

In threatening God that he will find another master, George Herbert sounds like a five-year-old threatening to run away from his mother. Deep down, he is acknowledging that he has no choice but to love God.

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Praying to God to Tune Our Hearts

By Robin Bates | Published: June 27, 2010

Spiritual Sunday There are those who think it an impiety to question God. I find more honest, and true, those people who wrestle with their doubts. That’s why I esteem so highly the poetry of George Herbert, the 17th –century Anglican rector. He is constantly searching for God. In some of his poems he struggles […]

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