Having faith in a person, a spouse perhaps, doesn’t require any specific action from the one in whom you have faith. It is a matter of sheer trust. It is open-ended: My faith in Christine is based not on facts I know about her (though they certainly enter in), but on my relationship with her, my experience with her. Faith in her doesn’t require her to do something, as in “I have faith that she will win the race.” It just requires her to be her. Faith in a person is trusting the character of the person. And that comes from relationship–shared experience over time.
By Foster Kedzie III What is behind the Chinese government’s ideology that it needs to repress religion and cultural diversity? This question came up in the context of the supression of Tibet and the objections raised by the Chinese government when world leaders meet with the Dalai Lama. With regard to the “religion” issue, it …