Is anyone listening?  Why do you pray?  Who do you pray to?  If God knows everything – what is the point of praying?  Does it make sense for an agnostic or atheist to pray?  Let’s talk about this problematic idea of talking to “God.”

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David Brown was raised in the Southern Baptist church, and all his life, felt called to be a minister.  As he grew and developed in his ideas about spirituality, he experienced a crisis of faith, where the doctrines he’d grown up with no longer made sense in view of the complexities and heartbreaks of his life. He read extensively in the teachings of Buddhism (beginning with the works of Eckhart Tolle), and his view of spiritual matters broadened and deepened. At first, his inclination was to reject the teachings of his youth as too narrow and simplistic, but he has now found a way to embrace those as well in his continued quest for spiritual insight. That led him to Unitarian Universalism, which seeks to learn from all sources of wisdom. He and his wife Rebecca moved to Fredericksburg in 2019 and became involved in the UU Fellowship of Fredericksburg, where he began serving as contract minister in 2024. David holds a BA in Music from the University of Missouri, an MA in Biblical Languages from Calvary Seminary, and an MBA in Information Systems from Northcentral University.