Reader: Church is always there to feed, heal, forgive, love and accept

This is in response to a letter to the editor in the June 27 issue of The Criterion.

The letter writer explained how spirituality is a study of asking what exists, what can be known about it, and what has our experience with it been like.

I was reminded so much here of Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, arguably the greatest of the post-Enlightenment era philosophers, who simply argued that God is summarized through his work in history with nothing else, and no other aspects, being either known or even observable.

Therefore to Hegel, the study of God would be the study of history.

I was pleased to see the letter writer add back the spiritual element of faith and a “mystical communion” with God, as most of the modern world has defaulted to Hegel.

This lack of faith and communion, I would argue, has left most folks in a kind of “divine fog” when  it comes to God.

Happily, the Church is always there, even in these divided and listless times, ready to feed, heal, forgive, love and accept.

- Sonny Shanks | Corydon