The Life of Meaning

Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World

In this thoughtful collection, extraordinary people describe how faith is possible amid the tragedy and senselessness of contemporary existence. Their insights on community, prayer, suffering, religious observance, the choice to live with or without a god and the meanings that are gleaned from everyday life form an elegant meditation that acknowledges the desire to search for something beyond what we can see and measure. Features over 60 contributors, including Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, Studs Terkel, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor and more.

God's promise was, when it's your turn to confront the unfairness of life, no matter
how hard it is, you'll be able to handle it, because He'll be on your side. He will
give you the strength you need to find your way through.” I was merely
paraphrasing the twenty-third psalm: “Though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.” The psalmist is not
saying, “I'll fear no evil because there's no such thing as evil in the world,
everything happens for a ...