“We forget that Christ was heterodox and radical. He was not safe, in his ideas or his passions or his presence, and he demanded everything of his followers, not the least their certainty that they knew all the shapes of right and wrong in their world. And so when I’m searching for my way forward, naively hunting for certainty, I’ve found that God nudges me back to where God wants me. Which is in the middle of questions that feel unanswerable. I believe it is there—in the fire and friction of things I’ve been told don’t belong together, of things that I’ve been taught can’t be done—that the
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