Thoughts and Prayers | The Point Magazine
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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
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