April 1, 2026
Before I begin, I want to ask you something: What is faith? And is it worth dying for?
As a girl who spent the first 15 years of my life in Thailand, where almost everyone and everything is Buddhist, these are life-defining questions. These are the questions my brother-in-law asked me six years ago after bringing me home from the SAT exam. Somehow, they were harder for me to answer than any of the questions on the exam I just took.