In my last post, I began to trace the ways my understanding of belief has shifted over the years. I focused especially on how I now see the relationship between belief and the will. For a long time, I assumed belief was something I could simply decide to have, as if it were a tool I could pick up and set down at will. I pictured faith as something I could manufacture on command, provided I applied the right mental effort. But I’ve come to see belief less as something I choose and more as somethi...