CREDO #2 · August 24, 2026 · 10 minutes
Why God?
Why the Question of God Became Harder to Escape
Before asking why Christianity, James goes farther upstream: why believe there is a God at all? The episode moves through consciousness, morality, beauty, suffering, and the strange human insistence that some things should not be. It also returns to a Waffle House during the collapse of a marriage, where prayer began before certainty did.
Questions explored
Faith examined from lived experience.
- Why does the universe seem intelligible to conscious minds?
- Why do suffering and injustice feel not only painful, but wrong?
- Can reaching for God begin before a person is sure God is there?
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