Christopher Beha’s long and winding road from well-read atheist to even better-read Christian begins with a compelling image: An angel appears to him. Not Jimmy Stewart’s befuddled buddy Clarence from “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but a demanding and persistent apparition.
As he explains in his deep-dive meditation on faith and philosophy, “Why I Am Not an Atheist,” the spirit told him to put his trust in God. “This was no dream,” he writes of the initial visitation in the mid-1990s, when he was 15. “I was awake — I am as certain of that as I’m certain that I’m awake while I write these words — and a terrifying presence was communicating to me.”
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