Morning Meditation: Questioning Traditional Doctrines

Loving God, you who hold all truth in your hands, This morning I sit with the uncomfortable words of your Son: "Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you." I confess that sometimes the enemy I struggle to love is the question itself — the doubt that creeps in during the third reading of a familiar catechism passage, the unease I feel when a teaching I received as a child no longer fits the God I have come to know through prayer and sacrament.…