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Faith Under Examination

25 Questions Every Christian Should Be Able to Answer

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This book started as a private list. Questions I kept hearing and could not answer well — about suffering, about the reliability of Scripture, about hell, about why a good God would allow any of this. I wrote them down because pretending they were not there was doing more damage to my faith than the questions ever did.

What followed was a few years of reading, arguing, and rewriting. Each of the twenty-five chapters takes one question, gives the strongest version of the objection first, and then walks through the best answers I found — including the places where the answer is partial and I say so.

It is written for the person in the back row who believes but is not sure why, and for the friend across the table who does not believe and is tired of being handled. If you want certainty in three easy steps, this is the wrong book. If you want to think, come in.

Inside the book

01If God Is Good, Why Is There So Much Suffering?
02Can a Text This Old Be Trusted?
03Did the Resurrection Actually Happen?
04What About the Other Religions?
05Is Faith Just Believing Without Evidence?
06Why Would a Loving God Speak of Hell?
07Science, Genesis, and the Age of the Earth
08When the Church Itself Is the Objection

Chapter list continues in the full edition

About the author

A note from the writer

I'm a writer and researcher who spent several years chasing down the questions I couldn't answer about my own faith. I'm not a pastor and I don't have a pulpit — which is probably why people tell me things they'd never say in a small group.

I write for the person in the back row: curious, a little tired of slogans, and unwilling to trade honesty for comfort.

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