I felt that you expressed doubt in such a positive light when you wrote (“Pen and God Go Missing,” DSM Autumn 2007),

Whereas many persons of faith seem to experience the gift of seeing easily and naturally why God of course is real, God has given me the gift of seeing easily and naturally why of course some people find it hard to believe God is real.

I have been puzzling with various sorts of epistemological questions for many years, and this may be the most positive perspective I have yet found. Perhaps I cannot put two and two together, or perhaps I simply refuse to believe the obvious as I have been told from time to time. Yet somehow a person who struggles with doubt and faith is how God seems to have made me—and perhaps that is a gift after all.

Thanks for the perspective.
—Kevin Glick, Portland, Oregon