And last week we sang with the children one of their favorite songs,上周我们与孩子们一起唱了一首他们最喜爱的歌曲：The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock.聪明人建房岩石上。Perhaps some of you know it. Some of the words go like this:也许你们当中有些人知道这首歌。其中有些歌词是这样的：The foolish man built his house upon the sand.And the floods came up An

I am a vicar in the Church of England.我是一名英国圣公会的牧师。I&#39ve been a priest in the Church for 20 years.我做牧师已经有20年了。For most of that time, I&#39ve been struggling and grappling with questions about the nature of God. Who is God?在这20年的大部分时间里，我一直在努力解决和回答关于上帝本质的问题：上帝是谁？And I&#39m very aware that when you s

He wrote, &quotIf some religious genius did come up with an explanation of exactly why all these deaths made sense,would we feel happier, or safer, or more confident in God?&quot他写道：“如果真有宗教天才能够解释通为什么这些死亡是合理的，难道我们会感到更幸福、更安全或对上帝更有信心吗？”If the man in the photograph that appeared in the newspapers,holdin

The supreme commander toying with expendable units in a great campaign.在一场大战中，最高指挥官玩弄着可被牺牲掉的部队。We are still left with a God who can do the tsunami and allow Auschwitz.留给我们的仍然是一个可以引发海啸、允许奥斯威辛集中营存在的上帝。In his great novel, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky gives these words to Ivan,addressed to his nai

In the end, we have to say, I don&#39t know.最后，我们不得不说，我不知道。If we knew, God would not be God.如果我们知道，上帝就不是上帝了。To have faith in this God would be more like trusting an essential benevolence in the universe,and less like believing a system of doctrinal statements.相信这个上帝应该更象是相信宇宙中的原善，而不是相信一套教义的陈述。Isn&#39