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Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Origins of Doubt and Questioning in Early Life

Stephen Bachelor is the author of numerous books, including The Faith to Doubt and Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. He grew up near London and traveled to India in the early 70s where he's often written he was immediately captured by Buddhism. Above all, Stephen Bachelor understands Buddhism without transcendent beliefs like karma or reincarnation to become something urgent to do, not to believe in.

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