Ultimate Mystery: Why It Matters

To: Potential Readers of Ultimate MysteryAs a child, I asked questions which changed my outlook on life forever. Why am I here? Why is anything here? If God is responsible for everything, why is there even God?My experience of these imponderable mysteries and my subsequent exposure to the findings of modern science led me to question many beliefs taught in my fundamentalist church and to maintain a skeptical atttitude toward dogmatic convctions of any kind.My essays will stimulate others to examine their own convictions about central Christian concepts and themes and will suggest what all might do to reduce conflicts among religions, to lessen the tension between religious and secular beliefs, and to lower walls which divide us. Given global warming, diminishing resources and the ongoing proliferation of weapons, our very survival may be at stake.R. E. Markham