It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that He should not exist; that the soul should be joined to the body, and that we should have no soul; that the world should be created, and that it should not be created. 
Blaise Pascal, from Pensées, quoted by Philip Yancey

These words of Pascal are my starting point for my ruminations on belief—my beliefs and belief in general. It is absurd to conceive of God; it is equally absurd not to conceive of God. Absurd to consider history and order in the universe, just as absurd not to. At present, I regret that my own Christian faith is (as counterintuitive as it may seem to some) tinged with far too much pragmatism and not enough spirituality: I believe in God, his creation, the invasion of sin, the redemption of Christ, and the eternal restoration of creation in part because I have yet to encounter a more sensible way to apprehend reality, history, and the destiny of creation, yet to find a more coherent and seaworthy worldview. While I do not not resort to a Pascalian level of pragmatism—that which says, I may as well believe because unbelief could turn out to have hot consequences—nor do I trust my emotions (my soul?) enough to indulge in the kind of cozy feelings about God so prevalent in popular evangelical rhetoric. But my futile search for Christianty's unreliability has left me at the point Peter was when he said, "Lord, to whom shall we go? Yours is the way of eternal life." So it is with neither reluctance nor cemented certainty that I articulate my belief in God as the source and Christ as the redeemer of the cosmos. 

We live in an age of suspicion of metanarratives, but without metanarrative and meaning humans are left adrift in metaphysical chaos. We can do better.

• In Search of Certainty

• Why Atheism is a Faith

• Letter to an Atheist

• Apatheism and the Stench of Indifference

• Hopeless Romantics: Belief and Sex and the City

More of my writing on belief:
From Books&Culture: 
Alternative consciousness versus dysfunctional cynicism
From my personal notebook blog:
The ontological privilege of the postmodernist?
Postmodern awe for absolute truth
The problem with wisdom
My book in progress:
Heaven, hope, and belief

Related readings from Books&Culture:
-"Seeing the Invisible God," book excerpts (parts one and two) by Philip Yancey
- Review of Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Belief
-"C.S. Lewis among the Postmodernists: How to be a perspectivalist without losing your foundations"