“What gives your life meaning or purpose?”
Seated on a green lawn dotted with groups of university students enjoying the first spring days in Paris, I listened as my new friends responded to the survey folded in my hands. Glazed-over expressions accompanied each improvised response, and more questions usually revealed a general lack of concern for anything spiritual. Regardless of growing up in Catholic school or with devout Muslim parents, matters of faith had been tucked away in the back of their minds. […]