Asking questions seems to be fundamental to the human experience. I seem to recall my developmental psychology professor telling the class pre-schoolers can ask more than four hundred “Why” questions a day; a statistic I can easily believe. Being asked questions can be irritating but it can also be illuminating. When someone asks you why […]
Answering the question
We are all human beings which most of the time is pretty wonderful. There are some aspects of our humanity that can get us into trouble if we don’t pay attention to them. One of these things is our desire for answers. Human beings hate uncertainty. Very few of us are happy with things being […]
Still more questions
This section of Matthew is filled with questions. As I think I mentioned last week, these are a particular kind of question, the “gotcha” kind. In Matthew 22.15-46 Jesus deals with: a combined question about taxes from the Pharisees and Herodians, a question about marriage from the Sadducees and a question about the Law from […]