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The Questions I Was Afraid to Ask

Conversations on Suffering, Scripture, and Certainty

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Some questions never make it into a sermon. They come up in cars, in waiting rooms, at the end of long nights.

This is a book of transcribed conversations, lightly edited, with people who have lived close to hard things. The point is not to resolve every thread but to show what honest disagreement can sound like.

Expect discomfort, and expect warmth.

Inside the book

01A Chaplain on the Night Shift
02The Pastor Who Left
03A Skeptic Reads the Gospels
04On Prayer That Went Unanswered
05A Scholar on Contradictions
06What We Owe Each Other

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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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