Welcome to the Pine Knot News Faith and Religion page. The point of it (as I understand it) is to offer reasonable and coherent access to the faith God brought to life, and to be in conversation about how faith can be real and matter in today’s world.

I imagine the faith leaders who submit their prayerfully shaped meditations will bring their own faith traditions and perspectives to the ideas we will share here each time. Many of us will come with these thoughts rooted in the way Jesus brought faith to life, but I hope other faithful traditions will find voice here as well.

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