As some of you may know, Matthew Warren, son of well known evangelical pastor Rick Warren, perhaps most famous for his book The Purpose Driven Life, took his life last week.  According to a statement released by his father, Matthew had long suffered from depression and various other mental ailments.  Though I've not lost a child and can in no way approach the depth of the Warrens' sorrow, when I got the news of Matthew's passing, I found myself wondering, again, at the meaning of faith.  Rev. Warren reports that his son died, as would any evangelical Christian, believing that he was going to heaven, secure in the knowledge that eternity was real and true.  But as we all know, we do not see eternity; it is not something we can take off a shelf and hold and touch, like a cell phone.  But the Christian believes it anyway.  Why?  Though the reasons are legion, perhaps one of the most significant is that, considering the historical and philosophical alternatives, faith in eternity seems far more logical than faith in its absence.  What is time if there is not eternity?
     So while faith is indeed belief, it is equally the logic of belief; it's believing the logical to be true.  Enjoy the truth, Matthew Warren.