I'll resume my parsing of the Johnson County Pastoral Plan soon. (Does it interest anyone besides me?) But first, an excerpt from one of my favorite blogs, Conversion Diary. She talks about Christmas as an atheist when she began to wonder about the big questions in life.

During this time I always paused when I heard the song What Child is This?, its slow, ethereal melody sending chills down my spine, the simple question it asked seemingly whispered in my ear by something closer than the tinny mall sound system.

It haunted me, challenged me, to stop everything and consider the baby who was born in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago, to look at the manger scenes that dotted the winter landscape of my city, and ask:

What child is this?

Go read the whole thing.

As religious people are tempted to disbelieve, ahteists are tempted to believe.