Adam Gopnik Practicing Doubt, Redrawing Faith

Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 4 p.m.

b'The wise and lyrical writer Adam Gopnik muses on the ironies of spiritual life in a secular age through the lens of his many fascinations \\u2014 from parenting, to the arts, to Darwin. He touches on all these things in a conversation inspired by his foreword to \\u201cThe Good Book,\\u201d in which novelists, essayists, and activists who are not known as religious thinkers write about their favorite biblical passages. Our ancestors acknowledged doubt while practicing faith, he says; we moderns are drawn to faith while practicing doubt.'