What is God?

This book describes one of the Big Questions (What is God?) as a question asked by everyone everywhere and answered in many ways. It is a little demeaning toward Christianity (describing their god as an invisible old man with a long white beard who lives in the clouds), and I don't like the way it T......more

I liked the first part of this book a lot, didn't care for the middle part, and they kind of loathed the last party. The first part engages in a sort of apophatic theology. It does an excellent job of moving through all the things that people thing God is, but pointing out that God is quite a bit bi......more

Today one of my 9-year-old daughter's longtime friends told her they couldn't be friends because my daughter isn't a Christian. My daughter came home hurt and confused. "It reminds me of that 'wow' word we learned in school," she said. "Prejudice." Wow. Her ability to conceptualize prejudice in this......more