I find great joy in asking questions. Questions that are deep, questions that are pointless, and questions that I already know the answers to. There's something sacred and beautiful about curiosity.
I guess I want to write out my questions, because I feel like they are good sometimes and hopefully interesting, but even if they aren't at least it seems more productive to get them out here on the wild frontier of the internets than it is to keep them corralled in my head.
It bothers me when people aren't comfortable with questions or with disagreement. It's difficult to find people and environments where honest debate is welcome, though. The few such environments that I have been in are vibrant, living examples of freedom - in a relational, intellectual way. In these places, there is an earnest curiosity and humility, a sense that we don't really have it figured out, and that hopefully through collective musing and brainstorming something will come about that is better than what was before. I like it.
I really hope to see more of this in Christian circles. It is good for people to challenge tradition, authority, and each other. It feels good, and I think it is much less dangerous than the alternative.
I guess I want to write out my questions, because I feel like they are good sometimes and hopefully interesting, but even if they aren't at least it seems more productive to get them out here on the wild frontier of the internets than it is to keep them corralled in my head.
It bothers me when people aren't comfortable with questions or with disagreement. It's difficult to find people and environments where honest debate is welcome, though. The few such environments that I have been in are vibrant, living examples of freedom - in a relational, intellectual way. In these places, there is an earnest curiosity and humility, a sense that we don't really have it figured out, and that hopefully through collective musing and brainstorming something will come about that is better than what was before. I like it.
I really hope to see more of this in Christian circles. It is good for people to challenge tradition, authority, and each other. It feels good, and I think it is much less dangerous than the alternative.
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