ESSAY

On honest questions

JUNE 29, 2026

There is a habit, in arguments about God, of rushing toward the answer. Both sides do it. The believer reaches for a tradition; the skeptic reaches for a refutation; both leave the question itself almost untouched.

But the question is the interesting part. It is the thing a real person actually carries — quietly, often for years — without ever quite saying out loud.

This series is an attempt to slow down at exactly that point. To take the question, name it carefully, and walk around it long enough to see its shape. The answers come later, and they come more honestly when the question has been respected first.

That is the whole premise: respect the question, then think.