> reading things like Boethius and St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas or things like G K Chesterton and C S Lewis

How was your experience reading these great Christian philosophers?  Did you find it inspiring and engaging, or did it feel hollow and contrived?  Or maybe it felt one way previously and you feel a bit differently now?

SimpleStacker

but if that's your primary engagement with it, then it makes sense that when you lose that, you lose a lot of what the whole thing meant to you.

You make a good point. And there was a stretch where that certainly was the primary angle through which I understood my faith.

I want to say that there were many other elements to it: the experience of the mass, prayer life, the theology and reading things like Boethius and St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas or things like G K Chesterton and C S Lewis.

But you are picking up on something in that what I write about when I tell the story.

Christianity

Should you tell your children if you stop believing in God?

Scoresby

> but if that's your primary engagement with it, then it makes sense that when you lose that, you lose a lot of what the whole thing meant to you.

You make a good point. And there was a stretch where that certainly was the primary angle through which I understood my faith. 

I want to say that there were many other elements to it: the experience of the mass, prayer life, the theology and reading things like Boethius and St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas or things like G K Chesterton and C S Lewis. 

But you are picking up on something in that what I write about when I tell the story.