The Personal God
I am sitting out on the deck of the shops on Star Island, one of the Isles of Shoals off the New Hampshire coast. The sun is warm and bright and the salty sea breeze rolls off the water and makes me feel at peace. I am thinking back to when we arrived, earlier in the day. We walked up to a small church that had been here in some form since the 1700's. There was a Unitarian service going on. (Unitarianism seems to be the religion Du Jour here in this area of New Hampshire). As they bowed low their bodies in an expression of homage to an indistinct God, the leader of the service droned on about the creator God who does not have a name but has been called many things, "God, Allah.." and so forth. I considered all the unique things about Christianity, the gospel, and my view of God based on scripture and experience. I considered the pamphlets I had been reading on Sharia Law of Islam. I considered the hurried apostatizing of the Jehovah's Witnesse...