We don’t need to focus so much on balancing faith and doubt.
We need to GET OUT OF OUR BRAINS and back into OUR BODIES.
Or better, we need to realize that every brain is essentially embodied, flowing with emotions and embedded in relationships.
Isn’t Enough
Saying that we need a little more doubt in our life of faith isn’t wrong. It just isn’t enough.
Embodied practices and embedded relationships make us who we are, and help constitute the beliefs we have.
A Bigger Reality
Embodied practices and embedded relationship propel our faith forward. Not because we are injecting the proper amount of doubt in our beliefs, but because we are tending to reality—a reality bigger than our ideas, and outside of our brains.
And this reality is confronting and conforming us—in and through our bodies, not just our brains.
So…
A dose of skepticism as we move forward—Yes.
Cynicism that most beliefs are false—No.