When an Atheist Finds Faith
Can a self-satisfied atheist become a Christian? Of course she can. But sometimes, it might come through tears.
Nicolle Cliffe might have been named "the person least likely to become a Christian." It's not that she was hostile to Christians or Christianity, like Richard Dawkins or the apostle formerly known as Saul. No, Nicolle had become an atheist since her college years, and thought her Christian friends suffered a benign delusion that probably helped them deal with life.
Nicolle wasn't afraid of dying, either. She actually found the idea of life ending at death "mildly reassuring in its finality." She had no deep sense of untapped longing. In fact, she seemed to have it all — a good marriage, children, a budding vocation as cofounder and coeditor of a website. Nicolle Cliffe just wasn't a likely candidate for conversion.
But then one day, she became worried about one of her children, and found herself saying aloud to no one in particular, "Be with me." She quickly shook it off as an aberration, and the situation with her child resolved itself. But then other strange things in Nicolle's life, detailed in an article in a recent Christianity Today, started happening as well.
