An Irreducible minimum

Some thoughts on the kind of faith I long for

When I was a child, I thought as a child, and I longed for a faith fit for a child. This was the close-clinging comfort of unquestioning complacency, the taken-for-granted grace of a God of proximity and predictability. When I was a teen I looked for a faith where belief and belonging were synonymous, where the tribe and the truth could converge and whe…