In my “Faith and Doubt” colloquium this semester, we have encountered many authors who write about the “hiddenness” of God, the challenge of seeking to be in relationship or contact with a God who (1) created out of love so that we might freely respond in love to the invitation to relationship and (2) who is silent, absent, or both. I started seminar last week with a PowerPoint screen containing these three quotations: The trouble about God is that he... Read more