The Life of Pi and The Quest For God

Insight into life's deeper questions – suffering, the quest for God, and one's place in the cosmos – are often handled more effectively in stories than in learned debates or arcane texts. A story of a young man adrift in a lifeboat with a man-eating tiger might be seen as an unlikely instrument for insight into these questions but the recent Ang Lee film The Life of Pi, based on the novel by Yann Martel, is filled with surprises and food for thought....