Christian Wiman — A Call to Doubt and Faith, and Remembering God

On Being : Christian Wiman — A Call to Doubt and Faith, and Remembering God Image
On Being : Christian Wiman — A Call to Doubt and Faith, and Remembering God Image

Christian Wiman — A Call to Doubt and Faith, and Remembering God

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The poet Christian Wiman is giving voice to the hunger for faith — and the challenges of faith — for people living now. After a Texas upbringing soaked in a history of violence and a charismatic Christian culture, he was agnostic until he became actively religious again in his late 30s. Then he was diagnosed with a rare form of incurable blood cancer. He’s bearing witness to something new happening in himself and in the world.