Faith shapes us all in different ways
I covered everything from a truck stop Bible study in Clayton, to a preacher who shined shoes at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, to a Sunday school class for mentally challenged adults, to a communion service on death row.
Posted — UpdatedIn the spring of 1995 I was assigned to focus on a series of stories around the issue of faith.
Not religion. Not spirituality. Faith.
I covered everything from a truck stop Bible study in Clayton, to a preacher who shined shoes at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, to a Sunday school class for mentally challenged adults, to a communion service on death row.
My time in Calcutta, India, taught me about theology and the real working of the human psyche.
In the ensuing 25 years, I've seen the coverage of such things change.
How sad.
This article I discovered recently from Bible.org sums it up nicely.
In short, theology is a set of intellectual and emotional commitments, justified or not, about God and man which dictate ones beliefs and actions. Neither the word itself is irrelevant, nor the concepts which it seeks to articulate. It is the first pursuit of knowledge and wisdom.
May we, at times, drop our journalistic masks and remember, first, we are human. We leave an imprint and a footprint.
I am grateful for the stories of faith I covered and how it was faith that truly covered me, even when I flew too close to the sun.
Amen.
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