What is faith?

Veronica Zundel unpacks how we each exercise faith every day, and the importance of evidence in the absence of proof

“I’ve lost my faith” announces a friend. The obvious temptation, as with other lost things, is to ask: “When and where did you last use it?” But I resist that – it would be unkind. And anyway, she has confessed lately to praying for her adult children – one seriously mentally ill, the other work-stressed – so perhaps her faith isn’t as lost as she might think. Perhaps she has just lost her tolerance for Church; something which happens to the best of us at times.