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Popular writer Lore Ferguson Wilbert has belonged to Christian communities that discouraged curiosity. The point of the Christian life was to have the right answers, and asking questions reflected a wavering faith. But, Wilbert came to discover that the Bible is a permission slip to anyone, who wants to ask questions.
Reflecting her own theological trajectory toward a more contemplative, expansive faith, Wilbert invites readers to foster curiosity as a spiritual habit. This book explores questions God asks us, questions we ask God, and questions we ask each other. Christianity is not about knowing good answers, says Wilbert, but about asking good questions- ones that foster deeper intimacy with God and others.
A Curious Faith invites readers to go beyond pat answers and embrace curiosity, rather than certainty, as a hallmark of authentic faith. Foreword by Seth Haines.
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There are two familiar temptations today: to fear questions and to idolize them. Lore Ferguson Wilbert has done neither in this gentle, honest, and wise book. Stepping into the beleaguered shoes of the prophets, the psalmists, and the perplexed disciples, Wilbert invites readers into the human experience of faith. Her words are a salve to those of us who wonder, who wait, who impatiently watch for the One who isand is yet to come.
Jen Pollock Michel , author of A Habit Called Faith and Surprised by Paradox
A Curious Faith is a beautiful culmination of Lores ministry. For years she has invited readers to probe the depths of Godand to engage in self-reflectionwith a courage that could only be Spirit-led. This book does not provide definitive answers on every musing but does offer a winsome theology of curiosity, of questioning, and of faith that the answers will come, by and by.
Jasmine L. Holmes , author of Carved in Ebony: Lessons from the Black Women Who Shape Us
We need more writers like Lore Ferguson Wilbert, ones who gently guide us into the grooves of a well-worn faith, the kind acquainted with doubt. Her words invite us to spread our arms out wide beneath the canopy of curiosity, to take a walk along the curved pattern of the question mark, and to breathe in deep the mystery of God.
Emily P. Freeman, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Next Right Thing
In a world filled with people who think they have all the answers, we desperately need more individuals who know the importance of asking the right questions. Lore Ferguson Wilbert is just such a person. As Lore shows both through her life and in these pages, a strong faith doesnt just allow questions; it demands them. A curious faith is a robust faith. This invitation to ask good questions will encourage and strengthen youand your faith.
Karen Swallow Prior , Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary; author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books
Handle with Care: How Jesus Redeems the Power of Touch in Life and Ministry
2022 by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Published by Brazos Press
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Ebook edition created 2022
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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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To my Bean,
for asking and listening and learning to ask some more
When I find myself hotly defending something, wherein I am, in fact, zealous, it is time for me to step back and examine whatever it is that has me so hot under the collar. Do I think its going to threaten my comfortable rut? Make me change and grow?and growing always causes growing pains. Am I afraid to ask questions? Sometimes. But I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best childrens books ask questions, and make the reader ask questions. And every new question is going to disturb someones universe.
Madeleine LEngle, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Endorsements
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Also by Lore Ferguson Wilbert
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Foreword by Seth Haines
PART 1: Questions God Asks: Living Curiously
1. Live the Questions
2. Where Are You? Genesis 3
3. Who Told You That? Genesis 3
4. What Have You Done? Genesis 3
5. Where Are You Going? Genesis 16
6. What Is Your Name? Genesis 32
7. What Is in Your Hand? Exodus 4
8. What Are You Doing Here? 1 Kings 19
9. Where Were You When I Created All This? Job 3839
10. Will You Correct Me? Job 40
11. Whom Shall I Send? Isaiah 6
12. Is It Right for You to Be Angry? Jonah 4
PART 2: Questions We Ask God: Listening Curiously
13. Why Was I Born? Jeremiah 20
14. Why So Downcast? Psalm 42
15. How Can I Be Right with You? Job 25
16. Where Are You? Isaiah 63
17. Why Do You Hide from Me? Psalm 44
19. Where Can I Go? Psalm 139
20. Why Do You Make Me Look at Injustice? Habakkuk 1
PART 3 Questions We Wish Someone Would Ask Us: Loving Curiously
21. What Are You Looking For? John 1
22. Do You Want to Be Well? John 5
23. Where Is Your Faith? Luke 8
24. Who Condemns You? John 8
25. Are You Not Much More Valuable? Matthew 6
26. Do You Believe I Am Able to Do This? Matthew 9
27. Who Do You Say I Am? Matthew 16
28. Can You Wait with Me? Mark 14
29. Why Have You Forsaken Me? Mark 15
30. The Unasked Questions
31. Why Are You Crying and Who Are You Looking For? John 20
32. Do You Love Me? John 21
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Back Cover
Seth Haines
In the back seat of an early 80s Subaru, staring out the window at miles of Texas hardpan, I asked my mother, Do you ever get hacked off at Adam and Eve? These were my precise words hacked off and as far as I remember, my mother was so taken by my six-year-old linguistic play that she couldnt manage an answer. She only laughed.
It was the first question I remember asking, a theological one at that, and it wouldnt be the last. I asked my Episcopalian grandmother: Why does your priest dress up in funny clothes? and Why do you drink wine during Communion? and Why do you recite all those complicated prayers each week? I asked my other grandmother, the faithful Church of Christer: Why doesnt your church use instruments? and Why do you talk so much about baptism? and Why do you prefer grape juice to wine at Communion? In late elementary school, I asked my Catholic school teachers: Why do you pray to Mary instead of praying to Christ himself? and What was the deal with all the statues in the sanctuary? and Why should I pay a dollar to light a prayer candle? and What was a prayer candle, anyway?
I was nothing if not a born theological questioner. But in a ninth-grade evangelical Sunday school class, I asked a question that was inexplicably off-limits: How could we know there was a literal seven-day creation?
Hear the record scratch, the needle skip. Hear the gasp before the silence. Feel the blood rising in my ears.
The Bible says it, and you should believe it. There are some things we just dont question.
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