The following is drawn from a message delivered at First Friends in Richmond, Indiana on April 14, 2013 by Jeff Wolfe:

The pastorate might seem like an odd profession for a person with a healthy degree of doubt, yet in wrestling with religion, I’ve felt drawn toward a vocation where issues of faith and doubt are in close conversation.  I’ve observed that often two groups that take issues of faith quite seriously are clergy and atheists.  I’ve cast my lot with the ministry, yet I have a respect for skeptics who reject religion.  I appreciate those who are willing to wrestle with the hard questions, even as those difficult questions produce very different answers.  Frankly, I feel more kinship with a thoughtful atheist than I do with a lukewarm theist, for at least with the atheist, I share a common search and passion for Truth. 

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