Bill Dahl

Table of Contents for the book, The Porpoise Diving Life

Now a few important introductory notes to the book, The Porpoise Diving Life: Don’t Skip This Section.

“One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.” [i] Thomas Merton

Living out one’s faith

Getting down and dirty

Christianity in the postmodern world just may have it backward. Instead of diving in head first, maybe we need to wade into life of faith feet first.

Listening to critics

What to do?

This is where Christians need to exercise more restraint. Perhaps we should be sharing the truth with people: “There’s going to be potholes in the road. You’ll feel lost and alone on more than a few occasions. There will be U-turns, slippery surfaces and dead-ends.

Christianity was never intended to be a domesticated religious amusement.