Why I Am a Christian
This past week the leader of our church small-group gave us a homework assignment: Imagine that noted scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins has requested that Christians write to him explaining why they believe what they believe. Write a letter in response. The following is my homework. I share it here for the sake of anyone who may be curious as to why, in this age of scientific discovery, I continue to adhere to the Christian faith. Dear Mr. Dawkins, In this letter, I am pretending that you have asked me to explain why I am a Christian. As you are a noted atheist, I will begin more simply with why I believe in God. For the first 40 years of my life I lived as a nominal Christian (which most Americans were in those days before it became so fashionable to disassociate with religion). I experienced occasional bouts of evangelical fervor interspersed with long stretches of practical atheism - times when I lived as though there is no God and yet wit...