https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/belief/Recent content in Belief on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usTue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/faith/crisis-of-faith/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/faith/crisis-of-faith/<p>A man I&rsquo;ll call Walter was sitting up in his hospital bed when I arrived, and his eyes had the particular hardness of someone who has been deciding something for a while and has finally decided.</p> <p>His wife of forty-one years had died six days earlier. Pancreatic cancer, quick and merciless, eight weeks from diagnosis. They had been in my congregation in Harlan for years, two of the backbone people, the ones you could count on to show up and to stay. She was sixty-one. He was sixty-three.</p>