Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

I am so bad that He had to die. I am so loved that He was glad to die.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

If you come to recognize the beliefs on which your doubts about Christianity are based, and if you seek as much proof for those beliefs as you seek from Christians for theirs - you will discover that your doubts are not as solid as they first appeared.