Colbert on Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith

Spectrum Staff | September 23, 2007

By Alexander Carpenter
Stephen invites Fr. James Martin, SJ, to discuss the recent revelations about Mother Teresa’s struggle with her sense of God’s presence.

Loma Linda University Prof. of Adventist History, Julius Nam writes:
“Funny how a glimpse of the dark doubts of her life minister to me so profoundly. despair gives me hope. Turning my eyes toward Adventism, I wish we knew more
of Ellen White’s problems and more of her problematic,
conflict(ed/ing), at times paradoxical unpublished writings were
published in the manner of Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. I know that it’s going to happen eventually (hopefully in my lifetime), and I long for that to happen soon.

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