I recently wrote a column in which I examined my belief in God — or Godishness, as I called it. I spoke about how I have no rational or scientific reason to believe in God, how I have tried my darndest to talk myself out of it, but no matter how far I travel down that road of doubt I always eventually come back to belief. Alas, I am a believer. And yet that belief is much more amorphous and laced with questions than the belief of the devout.
Much of the conversation about God is influenced by our increasingly partisan news culture. The two choices are either right-wing fundamentalist believer or rational, left-wing nonbeliever. Absent are us in the middle, the Godish. But what exactly does this mean?
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