Friday Roundtable: Faith and Doubt

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For a long time, many church leaders equated doubt with an absence of faith. A sign that congregants weren't obedient or prayerful enough.

Rabbi Harold Kushner challenges that in his new book and says, "[Doubts] can be seen as manifestations of faith, concerns born of caring enough to be troubled by life's unevenness." We discuss the idea of doubt and how it plays into faith.

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