The Last Word

The Rope of Faith

Michael D. Kerlin

“I’m you,” I told my father when I was a toddler, and then spent the rest of my childhood and early adulthood trying to figure out how he did everything. So it’s odd that I never discovered how he managed to hold on to his faith despite a life filled with doubt. A Catholic philosopher, he wrote hundreds of articles about faith, but kept his work impersonal, safely seque (...)


 

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