In her much-discussed book When God Talks Back, anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann asks: “If you could believe in God, why wouldn’t you?” At the same time, she concedes: “It ought to be difficult to believe in God.” To live in a secular age is to inhabit just this space and tension. What are the implications of this for Christian witness in a secular age? How do we recognize and affirm the difficulty of belief?
