Examining faith

I found this in a discussion on the Times online about whether we need religion:

Socrates said “the unexamined life is not worth living”. Perhaps the unexamined faith is not worth having?    

In the midst of a lot of hackneyed and poorly argued comments for and against religion, this seemed a really valuable thought. Something that Quakers aim for is an ‘examined faith’, both at an individual and corporate level (See Advice No.5 in Quaker Faith & Practice). It ties in with a well-worn Quaker phrase, ‘What canst thou say?’I try to do this from time to time in my blog, but perhaps not often enough. Aidan McCartney has this as his main purpose in his blog though- I look forward to reading more!