By all means, we have it in us to lay hold of the gift of faith, the sort of faith that would stop the rot and re-orient us. In the end only that inner gift of truth can shape lives and societies. Both prophets and police agree that order cannot do it alone. So you and I keep coming here, where faith matters. People who believe that the creation of this world, and our lives in particular, are sacred and deliberate and loving acts of God, will feel very differently and act very differently in society than those who do not.
Faithful people matter.
Jesus taught that those who do not practice what they preach call both living and belief into question. Relationship to God matters. The deep inside our religious heritage is that life is lived out as an agreement or a covenant. It is here where these old stories are told, where we furrow our brows and summon up our energies to study them. It is here that more people have decided that the person who was the most inner-directed person in all of history was Jesus Christ.