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Book SynopsisGod created us to be curious. We innately wonder about the world, one another, ourselves, and our Creator. But fear of the unknown, cultural taboos, technology, or even church leaders can smother our curiosity. 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.
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword
by Seth HainesPart 1. Questions God Asks: Living Curiously
1. Live the Questions
2. Where Are You?
Genesis 33. Who Told You That?
Genesis 34. What Have You Done?
Genesis 35. Where Are You Going?
Genesis 166. What Is Your Name?
Genesis 327. What Is in Your Hand?
Exodus 48. What Are You Doing Here?
1 Kings 199. Where Were You When I Created All This?
Job 38-3910. Will You Correct Me?
Job 4011. Whom Shall I Send?
Isaiah 612. Is It Right for You to Be Angry?
Jonah 4Part 2. Questions We Ask God: Listening Curiously
13. Why Was I Born?
Jeremiah 2014. Why So Downcast?
Psalm 4215. How Can I Be Right with You?
Job 25 16. Where Are You?
Isaiah 6317. Why Do You Hide from Me?
Psalm 4418. How Long, Lord?
Psalm 1319. Where Can I Go?
Psalm 13920. Why Do You Make Me Look at Injustice?
Habakkuk 1Part 3. Questions We Wish Someone Would Ask Us: Loving Curiously
21. What Are You Looking For?
John 122. Do You Want to Be Well?
John 523. Where Is Your Faith?
Luke 824. Who Condemns You?
John 825. Are You Not More Valuable?
Matthew 626. Do You Believe I Am Able to Do This?
Matthew 927. Who Do You Say I Am?
Matthew 1628. Can't You Wait with Me?
Mark 1429. Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Mark 1530. The Unasked Questions
31. Why Are You Crying and Who Are You Looking For?
John 2032. Do You Love Me?
John 21