![]() Ian’s rationalistic mind challenges his audience to ‘name one thing – other than the existence of God – that we take on blind faith’ (p. Ian is a self-professed ‘teleatheist’ whose production company ‘Pagan Productions’ aims to expose religious visionaries as hoaxes, and therefore disprove the existence of God. This is certainly a question that Ian Fletcher has to battle with. Is Faith really a visionary, or is she just a scared little girl seeking shelter from her parents’ divorce? Is her mother using and harming Faith to gain attention for herself? Each character, and ultimately the reader, has to decide for themselves. Keeping Faith is about family, relationships, divorce and motherhood, but mainly it is about faith. Mariah proves herself to be resilient until Colin sues for custody, claiming that Mariah, herself, is harming Faith and coaching her to see visions as an attempt to gain attention. Mariah also has to deal with the Catholic Church which decides it has jurisdiction over Faith because of her stigmata. Mariah is at her wits’ end trying to protect Faith from the media moguls and religious groupies who have permanently encamped outside their home. Finally, Faith, without seeming to understand how, brings her own grandmother back from the dead, heals a baby from AIDs and starts to perform other miracles. Faith then develops holes in her hands which the doctors believe are stigmata. Faith starts to reveal secrets about people that no-one else knows and she quotes from the New Testament, despite the fact that her mother is nominally Jewish and that Faith has never heard any Christian teaching. Mariah decides to take Faith to a child psychiatrist, who concludes that Faith’s ‘guard’ is God and that their conversations may not be imaginary after all. ![]() Mariah manages to pull herself together but is troubled when Faith starts talking to her imaginary friend ‘the guard’. Mariah starts to fall apart, but her supportive mother Millie encourages her to remain strong and focused on Faith. However, her life is turned upside down when she and her mother unexpectedly return home one day to discover Colin with another woman. Questioning Faithįaith White used to be an ordinary seven year-old, living with her mother Mariah and father Colin in a large farmhouse in the small town of New Canaan, New Hampshire. Keeping Faith is no exception to this, posing questions about life, death, faith and the existence of God. Her novels cover issues such as rape, suicide pacts and genetically chosen children. info under CC BY 3.Jodi Picoult is not an author to shy away from controversial topics. Some scripture references/categories courtesy of Open Bible. If a verse or topic does not belong, please contact us. Topics and verses are auto-generated from user searches. Psalms 119:18 - Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. (Read More.)ġ Corinthians 13:1-13 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Hebrews 2:1-18 - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. James 1:1-27 - James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. Revelation 3:1-22 - And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. ![]() Galatians 3:9 - So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. Mark 9:23 - Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Hebrews 11:1-40 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Romans 10:17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Read More.)Ģ Timothy 4:7 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: James 2:17-18 - Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Jeremiah 33:3 - Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Matthew 17:20 - And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Romans 5:1-21 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: (Read More.) Proverbs 3:5-6 - Trust in the LORD with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding.
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