What were you taught to believe?
Have you ever questioned your beliefs?
- Do you have problems with formal religion?
- Have you strayed from a religion and now feel further from God? Closer?
- What is religion anyway? A gift? An invention? A bridge? A roadblock?
- Is guilt a part of your religious experience? Does God punish?
- What is God anyway? A concept? A reality? A spirit?
- Did God create mankind? Did we invent God?
- What does God look like? Is God a he, she or it?
- Why are so many Catholics becoming agnostic?
- Ever hear anyone say, “I’m spiritual, not religious” and then wonder what that means?
If you’ve ever pondered these or similar questions, then you’ve come to the right place.
Since the time Tim O'Donnell was a nuisance to the nuns, he has been asking questions about religion and Catholicism. After sixteen years of formal Catholic education followed by a successful business career, at age forty he sold his companies, built a log home in the woods and resumed his inquiry into the religion of his birth. Being a former daily newspaper publisher, O'Donnell unabashedly and unflinchingly dove headfirst into the taboo questions of Christianity, not as a theologian but as an investigative reporter.
His bold probe has generated a straightforward, and at times controversial exploration into questions many Christians carry from Catechism into adulthood.
A View from the Back Pew is a thoughtful, original and organic expose' of discovery.
Grab a seat in the back pew next to Tim and hold on as he navigates over a bumpy and rutted road to answer questions we all have encountered on our own spiritual journey through life.
