Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Faith

  • Look further. Go farther.

    My older sister was brilliant, bossy, opinionated, obsessive about detail, and passionate about certain issues she had identified as crucial for maintaining civilization as we know it: good manners, attention to duty, unrelenting love for one’s children, clear and practical progressive principles. She cared nothing for religion, but followed politics passionately, applying steely logic to…

  • God, Bespoke

    You’re “spiritual, not religious.” You sort of believe in God, “But not a man with a beard on a throne.” (You always say that. Pretty much everyone always says that.) Maybe you’re a cultural Jew or Christian or Muslim, just not observant, or you’ll laugh and say you’re a “recovering Catholic.” You used to go…