The Future of God

So I watched Nightline last night and they had the reoccuring series "FaceOff" on. This one featured prominent athiests Sam Harris and skeptic Michael Shermer and Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston on the side of God. I will say it was odd to be rooting for Deepak Chopra - I was.
The basic question was Does God have a future? In our ever changing post religious world...does God have a future in our history and in our identities. For the skeptics and athiests, they believe that the evidence of God such as a "deep knowing" and "experience of the Holy Spirit" or the "presence of something greater than ourselves" are reproducible in the lab by administering drugs like oxytocin and endorphins and brain stimulation.

The other side of the argument said that the evidence for God is that we are creative, intuitive, caring, compassionate, imaginative people and that science cannot replicate that. So for them the future of God is in the hope of never ending creation using all those parts of us to create the future that God has instilled in us. (Both sides agree that as a people we should love and care for each other!)

But here is the interesting part...this debate took place at CalTech in front of an audience of 1000 scientific based folks. And it was so odd to have the skeptic and athiest getting louder applause and agreement than those respresenting the affirmative for God! The loudest applause came when the skeptic Michael Shermer said "it shouldn't be a matter of belief but a matter of common creation, that we care for and about one another and the world we live in."

Catch a glimpse of the debate: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerindex?id=10174932

Again I ask - who have you shared your faith with lately? Because the future of God depends on how we talk about him and how we are able to reflect him in the world.
Peace y'all!

Hold On

Where did February go? I have turned around twice and it is gone. And now I am at the middle of March and can't imagine Easter is just three weeks away. I am living the modern life that is way too busy and way too difficult to change.

Sometimes I hear a phrase and especially one that I hear more than once in a day, and there is something about it that strikes me as "the still small voice" calling me. The voice of God speaking to me. I recently hear "Hold on" in unusual clarity and began to listen as to what that voice was saying to me. "Hold on" can be an angry voice, that is saying now wait just a minute. It can be a voice that is a command like when a load is about to tumble - stop, wait, hold on! It can also be a plea to just keep that grip - don't let go - hold on, help is on the way, hold on, tomorrow will be better, hold on to your faith.

I hear it as that last voice...hold on...I've got you, don't let go, keep the faith. So as I continue to tumble through Lent, I hold on to the voice that is telling me to hold on.
Thanks be to God
Amen