At its heart, faith is making the option for the absurd. What we’re really doing is placing all our hope in the idea that these beliefs may in fact be true. The move from belief to faith is a move toward humility, a confessional move toward acceptance. Ultimately, faith is learning to rest in mystery. But that invitation is a difficult one. So many of us spend much of our time trying to defend our beliefs, to come up with better arguments to convince someone that the way we think, live, act, or worship is superior. In those efforts we tend to gravitate toward arrogance.
