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Zero at the Bone is extraordinary. Just don’t expect it to be...

Christian Wiman writes that “Nothing kills credibility like excessive enthusiasm. Nothing poisons truth so quickly as an assurance that one has found it.” Certainty is, after all, the opposite of faith.

Christian Wiman says he's no longer afraid of dying. "When death hangs over you for a while, you start to forget about it," he says. Wiman's new book is Zero at the Bone.

It is worthwhile to occasionally step back and take a new look at what may have become ordinary and stale—faith is no exception. The story Christians tell beginning with Advent takes on new meaning when challenged “at the bone.”

In “Zero at the Bone,” the poet discusses love, lament, and living toward a ‘happy ending.’

Every time someone claims that we live in a country founded on “Christian principles,” I think of Benjamin Franklin. He doesn’t say a lot about organized religion, other than to frequently express his distaste for and rejection of it.

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Some might call me a heathen for rejecting established religion. At least I’m not alone as I found out from an article in the Monitor last week, titled “What’s your Religion? In U.S., a common reply now is “None.’”It turns out, 29% of us are not...

July 26, 2019 From age 22 to 23, I lived in England. I was there for graduate school, but really I was there for something else: to wrestle with that question all people of faith must wrestle with at some point, “Why do I believe what I believe?” I am a pastor’s daughter, raised in the Bible Belt of the U.S., a region that spans from Central and West Texas to the East Coast, as far north as West Virginia. These boundaries, of course, are debatable, but it certainly felt like I’ve lived...

Transcript Pádraig Ó Tuama, host: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and poetry, for me, has become a scripture that is in partnership with my life. I trust that somebody around the world has written a poem that is going to be sufficient for the moments of my life where I need something that hasn’t been said to me before. And if I can’t find it, I try to write it. [ Ó Tuama: “All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs” by Christian Wiman: “All my friends are finding new beliefs. This one co...