Thoughts and Prayers | The Point Magazine
thepointmag.com · 1,393 words · saved by 1 readers
It is often said that people gravitate towards religion in crisis, but I experienced something close to the reverse.
This is part of a series of columns on public philosophy by Agnes Callard; read more here. It is often said that people gravitate towards religion in crisis, but I experienced something close to the reverse: the time in my life when I found it hardest to pray, the time I felt furthest from God, was when my then-husband Ben had cancer. I knew that all I would do, if I prayed, would be to say, “Please let him live! Please do this for me! Please do this for our children! Please please please!” And I didn’t want to beg. I was not always above begging. The first prayers I can distinctly remember we
related reading
- these are the days - by Lilian - beauty and terrorliliancaylee.substack.com
- Religion for the Nonreligious — Wait But Whywaitbutwhy.com
- Backsliding, by Meghan O’Gieblynharpers.org
- The seam through the center of thingsusefulfictions.substack.com
- how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspirationpersonalcanon.com
- Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- Wishing It Sonybooks.com
- A GPS for the mind | thesephist.comthesephist.com
- paths and patternsdelicate.substack.com
- Crisis of faithinternetprincess.substack.com
- what I talk about when I talk about not thinkingava.substack.com
- Materialist Conceptions of God - by Ivan Vendrovnothinghuman.substack.com