there are others who maintain disbelief in God yet have no way to account for the experience rationally.44 In the Paris Review Kristin Dombek writes, “I have been an atheist now for more than fifteen years, and I have been able to explain to myself almost everything about the faith I grew up in, but I have not been able to explain those experiences of God so real he entered the bedrooms of his own accord, lit them up with joy, and made people generous. . . . It [was] like you’ve glimpsed the world’s best secret: that love need not be scarce.”45
