Sunday Special: love of the world etc

An interview with Stephen Colbert on his faith, humor, and Screwtape's letters

Notable quotes from the interview:

"Logic won't lead me to God but my love for the world will."

and 

"Doing something with joy doesn't make it easier, but it makes it better."

 Stephen Colbert

The Serenity Prayer uncut

The full version of the Serenity Prayer:

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it.

Trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,

and supremely happy with You forever in the next. Amen"

Reinhold Neibuhr

The first Sunday special: Simon and Stott

Kim Lawton: "(Paul) Simon says he’s fine with not knowing the answers, but he has sought input on his questions. He has spoken with the Dalai Lama, and he once spent hours talking with British evangelical theologian John Stott, who died last year."

"I talked about everything that was on my mind about things that seemed illogical, and he talked about why he had come to his conclusions and I think both of us enjoyed the conversation immensely. And I left there feeling that I had a greater understanding of where belief comes from when it doesn’t have an agenda." Paul Simon