I came out from the cold into the United Church in Toronto a few years ago. As a new Christian, I was so excited about Jesus and being part of a community of believers. At first, the worship service was great and I felt really fulfilled. Then, the Minister retired and it took a while to replace him. In the meantime, I noticed that nobody at the church talked about religion or Christianity or the Bible or Jesus or anything. It was like those things were "off topic" or unpopular to discuss. I started to feel a little isolated.

In a novel I am reading, one of the caracters is an Anglican priest.

First, he stopped believing in the Divinity of Jesus.More and more tenets of Christianity disappeared until he stopped believing in  God.

The novel says,"he found having no faith made him a better parish priest. Lacking any

certainty of his own, he took to responding and lovingly , to the needs of those who came

to him in trouble. He told each sufferer what they needed to hear..........reads the gospels