Table of Contents
Foreword 11
Preface to the Third Edition 13
Acknowledgments 15
Introduction 17
Part 1 Why Ask Questions?
1 Why Are Questions Better Than Answers? 23
2 Solomonic Soulwinning: What Does the Book of Proverbs Teach Us About Questions? 40
3 How Do Questions Pave the Way for Answers? 54
Part 2 What Questions Are People Asking?
4 Why Are Christians So Intolerant? 75
5 Why Does a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering and Things Like Pandemics? 101
6 What Do Christians Have Against Science? 119
7 Why Should We Believe an Ancient Book Written by Dead Jewish Males? 134
8 Why Are Christians So Homophobic? 154
9 What's So Good About Marriage? 174
10 If Jesus Is So Great, Why Are Some of His Followers Such Jerks? 199
Part 3 Why Aren't Questions and Answers Enough?
11 The Question of Compassion: "What If I Don't Care That My Neighbor Is Going to Hell?" 218
12 The Question of Anger: "What If I Really Want My Neighbor to Go to Hell?" 233
13 The Question of Silence: "When Is It Time to Shut Up?" 247
Epilogue: Unanswered Questions 263
Study Guide 269