Led into a Deeper Faith - The Rev. Cannon Jodi Baron

Our sacred texts have managed to pass down for thousands of years. I truly love these aspects of my work. Like this morning's gospel from John. Sometimes it's referred to as Doubting Thomas Sunday. Have any of you heard it called that?

 

Yeah. Every time I encounter this text and knew that adage bugs me, it crawls right up and gets under my skin. It might be because I myself am a wonderer as a product of Generation X. I find deep meaning in deconstructing things. I thought I lost my religion when I first began questioning things when I was in college.

 

But turns out it's what led me to a deeper faith. One that valued both science, that answered questions about the physical world and faith that answered the spaces of mystery that neither science nor religion were really designed to address. So I guess if St. Thomas were ever to fit into a modern generation, I would see him in a jean jacket, maybe sporting a non-ironic mullet and mustache and matching stone washed peg legged jeans.

 

We'd probably be reading the same newspaper and drinking the same kind of coffee.