Michael Ray Lewis grew up in a home where everyone would have said they believed in God, and nobody ever talked about him. There was a Bible under a bed somewhere. Nobody opened it. The only Christians he ever actually met were on street corners with picket signs, telling him where he was going.

So he became an atheist — and a good one. He enjoyed it. Hard questions were easy to ask and Christians rarely had answers, and between Bill Maher and Zeitgeist he had all the material he needed.

Then his wife came home and told him she felt Jesus calling her back. He started going to church to prove it was nonsense. He started reading to prove it was nonsense. Three years later he was sitting in a theologian's living room with five pages of questions, checking them off one by one — and when he got to the end, the man closed his Bible and asked him a question back.

In this conversation: what it's like to discover the problem was never the evidence, the drive home where the fog lifted, the hospital room where he had everything to say and said nothing, and the documentary he made so that nobody else would have to search as long as he did.

The part that stays with me isn't the conversion. It's the hospital. He'd found the answer, he believed it completely, and when it mattered most he couldn't get the words out — and then it was too late. I think most of us have a version of that room. I'd love to know if this one lands the same way for you.

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