On Doubt and Faith

There is a version of church where you are supposed to arrive with your questions already answered. That is not this one, and honestly it never was anywhere — people just got good at not saying so out loud.

Doubt is usually not an argument. It is grief, or exhaustion, or a prayer that went unanswered in a way you cannot make peace with. Treating it as a debate to be won is why so many conversations about it go badly. If you are in that place, the most useful thing is almost never a better argument. It is somebody who will sit with you and keep showing up.