This book is an attempt to talk about having and maintaining Christian belief today in “the West” or “the developed world”. This isn’t a book of traditional “minute meditations” because these are usually devotions directed towards God and Jesus. This is a book of “minute thoughts”, mostly about the human struggle to believe. It has been designed as a series of thoughts that take mostly a minute or less to read (there are a few exceptions). The author says in the Preface, “I often have short thoughts which strike me as worth keeping; a bit like having a ‘thought for the day’. I write them down but then they languish on a hard disk...So, I thought it was worthwhile to collect them together.”