Can we learn from the story of Doubting Thomas? Was he exhorted to have faith only? Was the appeal not also to his ability to reason? Do faith and reason not complement each other in that faith lived has secular consequences and reason has spiritual overtones in charting a course by which to live?

Thomas was reminded of his limits. He, too, was to continue in the divine word, and he would know the truth, and the truth would make him free. Whereof he could not speak, thereof he must be silent. Language had slipped away from him when he tried to use it to probe a mystery on his own terms. His relationship to the mystery therefore was governed by his relationship to language. Freedom from the later gave him freedom from the former. Fritz G. Renken Friends Journal October 2001 page 12

The message was written by Fritz G. Renken.