Sorry I bailed out of the interesting discussion (which seems to be going on nicely without me). Work has been keeping me busy, and today my brain is melting -- had to get up at the crack of dawn to interview a guy in Russia. No matter how much technology shrinks the world, it can't do anything about time zones! I'll try to blog more tomorrow.
In the meantime, both Tom and Mark have posted more on the concept of faith as a gift.