Of Faith and Inadequacy

Lexie just sent me this article to read and I think it might be one of the best short articles I've ready in years. Maybe there's nothing groundbreaking in it, but to me, when I first read it, it felt groundbreaking. Here's the intro to get you to go read the actual article:

I am sitting in a tiny Mexican cachina in midtown with a student. It’s a different meeting than the sort I am used to because he is a vocal and self-conscious skeptic of all things Christian. For some reason, he has been attending our Bible studies regularly and wants to meet for lunch. He has been sucking down margaritas for about a half hour now, and he announces that he has a question.

“Why is God hiding?”

“Okay, I’ll bite…why is God hiding?” I say confused.

“I mean, if God wants people to believe in him so badly, why doesn’t he make himself more obvious? Why all the cloak and dagger? Why not just come out of hiding and let everyone know that he is absolutely here?”

He goes on to answer that question better than anyone I think I've ever heard. The article's so short that it doesn't do any good for me to summarize it for you. It'll take you five minutes to read it. Once you do, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it.