The Sacredness of Questioning Everything

Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won't tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings to the table threats of excommunication, violence, and hellfire, it obstructs our ability to think, empathize, and live lives of authenticity and genuine engagement.The God of the Bible not only encourages questions; the God of the Bible demands them. If that were not so, we wouldn't live in a world of such rich, God-given complexity in which wide-eyed wonder is part and parcel of the human condition. The possibility of redemption and revolution depends on the questions we ask of God, governments, media, and everyday economies. It is by way of the questions that we resist the conformity that deadens and come alive to visions that redeem.

Author: David Dark
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 03/29/2009
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780310286189

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/09/2009 pg. 44
CBA Retailers 04/01/2009 pg. 34
Library Journal 05/01/2009 pg. 68
Books & Culture 07/01/2009 pg. 5

About the Author
Dark, David: - David Dark is the critically acclaimed author of Everyday Apocalypse and The Gospel According to America and is an educator who is currently pursuing his PhD in Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has had articles published in Paste, Oxford American, Books and Culture, Christian Century, among others. A frequent speaker, Dark has also appeared on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in an award-winning documentary, Marketing the Message. He lives with his singer-songwriter wife, Sarah Masen, and their three children in Nashville.