The Doubt of Thomas

Today, we meet the man who missed church, Thomas the Doubter. He becomes for us a vehicle or occasion to consider our own doubt. What's the nature of doubt, unbelief, belief, seeing, evidence?

What is the relationship between evidence and trust? Is believing a way to know something or is believing an alternative to knowing, to science and evidence and logic?

All these questions and others are raised in the Doubting Thomas episode. So let's dive in and look at three words central to the episode:

1. Doubt
2. Evidence
3. Faith