Life and mystery …

… Faith for the Post-Christian Heart: A Conversation with Francis Spufford | Christianity Today. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I want the center of the argument pulled back toward agnosticism, so that it's possible to say that atheism and faith are both necessarily leaps into the dark. I'm not saying we're stuck with fideism—you just make your choice, and you know nothing. I'm saying knowledge can't take you all the way on either side. Which is why I would respect a deep, emotional conviction of the absence of God in an atheist, and why I would hope an atheist [would] respect my deep emotional conviction of the presence of God.

Faith is an art.