For Starters

How do you think about purpose at this stage of your life?

How do you think about mortality at this stage of your life?

And at this stage of life, what does your search for Truth look like?

1.   If there is possibly a “capital T” Truth to be discovered in this world, why would one not search for it?

2.   What do you believe in, and why?

3.   Does anyone else know your doubts?

4.   What conversations do you avoid and why?

5.   What might be the poverties of the man who has everything?

6.   What if, in the end, you are actually not in charge?

7.   How much of your life is defined by your regrets?

8.   What sort of end point do you imagine for your life?

9.   Are you telling me that you don’t have time to look into these things?

10.   How much form does freedom require?

11.   What DO you think you will say on your deathbed?

12.   What WOULD you do if your doctor told you you had six months?

13.   If it’s possibly very important, why not do the thing you fear the most?

14.   Are you too smart to not pursue the Truth about life, including the truth about yourself?

15.   Are you being an idiot about your spiritual life? 

16.   If we’re going to be dead soon, why not talk about it?

17.   How do you think about your work in terms of vocation and calling?

18.   If the capital "T" Truth could be known, would you want to know it, regardless of what it might ask of you in terms of commitment or moral choices?

19.   Where are we when we have finally conformed to non-conformity?

20.   Do you fear silence?

21. Does the "Myth of Certainty" cut both ways, pressing against both belief and unbelief?

22.   What kind of friend only affirms his friends?

23.   Are you sophisticated beyond humility?

24.   Why would a pure materialist fear death?

25.   Do you study religion in order to remain nonreligious?

26.   If you’re an agnostic, is your agnosticism a place of movement or a destination?  If it’s a destination, does that say more about you than it says about God?

27.   If Jesus requires that we receive him or reject him, rather than ignore him, what will you do?

28.   Whatever happened to admonishment?

29.   Is your God manageable?

30.   In terms of giving up faith — when you leave somewhere do you have to go somewhere?

31.   Have you embraced the New Activism — the movement in which we face ourselves squarely and honestly?

32.   Would you agree that who you are when you are alone is who you are?

33.   Why do we avoid the New Testament?

34.   What if life is about us adjusting to God rather than God adjusting to us?

35.   Is Common Sense the enemy of faith?

36.   If 51 out of a 100 people believe something to be morally right, is it?

37.   Is any action moral that involves consent?

38.   What if God wants YOU before He wants your participation in changing the world?

39.   If it’s the “Universe” that gives us gifts, are we referring to the celestial objects, the space between those objects, or both?

40.   Why do we ask, “When is the Church going to change?”, but don’t ask “When are you and I going to change?”

41.   If there are hypocrites in the Church, would there be one more if you joined?

42.   The prodigal son (Luke 15) squandered his inheritance, losing everything in the process, but “he came to himself” and returned to his father.  Have you “come to yourself” yet?

43.   How much of our conversation is shaped by how we think we’ll be perceived by others?

44.   Do you feel powerless about anything in particular in your life?

45.   Are you hiding behind any explanations you have for why the world is the way it is?

46.   How should we think about the dogmatism of those who accuse religious people of being dogmatic?

47.   Do you and Jesus disagree about anything?

48.   Do you have any doubts about your religious doubts?

49.   What are friends for?

50.   Do you see yourself as being a problem in the world?

51.   Do you think it’s true what Thoreau wrote, that “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”?  If so, do you also live such a life?

52.   Are you living a redemptive life?

53.   What do you wish had been different?

54.   What do you think conversation should look like?

55.   How are you going to live if the greatest event in your life is your death? 

56.   Is it possible that the Good News is bad news before it’s good news?

57.   How does it change things if Yeshua really is the Messiah?

58.   What are you reading, and why?

59.   Does the Devil schedule your day?

60.   If God has adventures for you, why would you settle for your own?

61.   How will you respond if Jesus calls you by name?

62.   Where do you hide?

63.   What is the future of a society that makes a virtue of irreverence and rule-breaking?

64.   If everyone is a fool for something, what are you a fool for?

65.   Are you the greatest critic of your own positions?

66.   What do we mean when we say, “There’s got to be more to life than this”?

67.   Did Jesus Christ die on a cross to inspire you to be a nice guy?

68.   When does a desire become a right?  What legitimates a desire?  When should one not get what one desires?

69.   If you dismiss what I’m offering, what do you offer instead?

70.   What’s the best question you’ve ever been asked by a child?

71.   Would the Universe care if you had sex with a prostitute?  Would your wife care?  Would it be wrong?  Would it be wrong if your wife never found out, and therefore wasn’t “affected” by it?

72.   Do you want to be simple and deep, or complicated and shallow?

73.   In your search for Truth, what do you not want to find out?

74.   Why would God reveal God to you only on your terms?

75.   Would you agree with Thomas Aquinas that wealth, pleasure, power, and honor are substitutes for God?  Are they for you?

76.   As he ages, why would a man become more resistant to God rather than more open?

77.   At this point, how would you sum up your life?

78.   What do you think is the greatest gift that you, in particular, can give to your friends?

79.   Why do people tend to talk more than they listen?

80.   Do you live in a presumption of neutrality?

81.   I might be wrong about my understanding of Truth.  But might you also be wrong about it?

82.   When a man is convicted of a crime why do we fine him, imprison him, or both?  Why not just tell him to not do it again?

83.   What is the appeal of self-referential chatter?

84.   What does the Devil NOT want you to do?  Then, isn’t that what you should do?

85.   Where are we in our “meaning of life” conversations?

86.   If you and I knew that this was going to be our last conversation, what do you think we should talk about?

87.   If God has promised that you will find God if you search for God, will you search for God?   (Jeremiah 29;  Acts 17;  Proverbs 8;  2 Chronicles 15;  Matthew 7)

88.   Is your God larger than your greatest regret?

89.   Why would someone as smart as Augustine say, “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee”...  ??

90.   Ultimately, wouldn’t you rather be disappointed in God than in yourself?

91.   Are you properly dissatisfied with life?

92.   Have you ever watched your hands tie your shoes?

93.   You’re a smart person — is God calling you to himself?

94.   Is what I want for myself more important than what I have promised to do?

95.   Were any of your reasons for leaving the faith left unexamined?

96.   If you pile up enough shallow thoughts, do they become deep thoughts?

97.   Is what we do in this world important only as it relates to what happens in the next?

98.   Why be concerned about your legacy if the world is going to burn up anyway?

99.   Do you talk with your significant other about spiritual things?  If you do, can you describe a particular conversation?

100.   Does a rant about religion qualify as a spiritual insight?

101.   Could the greatest civilizational challenge we face be our fear of Islam?  Or more precisely, our fear of Muslims?

102.   What’s to be the content of our lives from this day forward?

103.   How much does it bother you when you don’t know the answer to a question, or when you don’t have the solution to a problem?

104.   Is God crashing into your life the greatest problem you could ever hope for?

105.   What, if anything, is our culture telling us about ourselves that is actually not true?

106.   What’s up with a society that feels the need to turn a girl into a warrior woman?

107.   If a man is genetically predisposed to be unfaithful to his wife, should he be?

108.   Do we leave the radio of life tuned to static so we don’t hear God speaking to us?

109.   Are we afraid to ask questions because we’re trying to protect something?

110.   What would it mean to you to be loved by God?

111.   Would you ever consider the transcendent?

112.   If you’re a great talker and a lousy listener, what are you going to do about that?

113.   Not only what might be the truth about God, but what might be the truth about you?

114.   What are you going to do with your life, for God?

115.   Should one search for success before searching for Truth?

116.   What’s the most revealing thing you’ve learned about yourself in the last five or ten years?

117.   This is what I was born to do.  What were you born to do?

118.   Do you have a problem with the supernatural overwhelming the natural?

119.   If I become persuaded of a Truth that at times asks me to live contrary to the prevailing culture, at what cost should I do that?

120.   How should we respond if we discover that Truth itself can be offensive?

121.   Why do nihilists write books?

122.   Would your wife be happy to see you doing what you’re doing right now?

123.   How should I think of atheism in terms of its capacity to deliver good?

124.   Is your atheism content or anxious?  Peaceful or combative?

125.   What does it look like to respect another in conversation?

126.   Why not start with basic human questions?

127.   How much of God do you want?

128.   If atheism is about freedom, human rights, and intellectual integrity, what are we to make of 20th century atheistic regimes?

129.   How do you think your siblings would describe you?

130.   How would any of us describe our role in our own family’s dysfunction?

131.   How long can you sit without looking at your phone?

132.   Are there problems in our society that lie deeper than racism?

133.   Is it half as difficult, or twice as difficult, to be released from confinement when one is self-imprisoned?

134.   If Congress passed a law that every American citizen age 90 and up is to be euthanized, would it be right?  How could it be wrong if enough people wanted it to be right?

135.   Should one’s search for Truth be discouraged by the presence of scoundrels who claim allegiance to that Truth?

136.   Why would a man refuse the grace of God?

137.   If my calling in life is to annoy you with questions, should I not be faithful to my calling?

138.   How much self-questioning do you engage in?

139.   If the Crusades never took place, would life for us be different?

140.   What exactly is my obligation to God and country to burn fossil fuels?

141.   What makes you emotional?

142.   Do you think we are currently living in an anti-boy world?

143.   What exactly happens during an abortion procedure?

144.   “What are you looking for?”   (Jesus, in John, chapter 1)

145.   How important should personal moral character be in a leader?

146.   Does the darkness that the Church has exhibited at times in its history provide you with cover for your own darkness?

147.   What would finishing well look like?

148.   What about God’s plans for your life would make you hesitate to receive them?

149.   How do we establish a value system for actions that spring from what may be discovered to be genetically-based impulses?

150.   In terms of Truth-seeking, can you live with the holy tension found in procrastination or disregard?

151.   Is holiness what one does, rather than what one thinks?

152.   If God allows you to take the road of the mind or the road of the heart to find God, what will you do?  Will you take one road, both roads, or neither?

153.   If I’m not being forceful, insistent, or dogmatic when asking a question, isn’t it interesting that the question itself can still cause a disturbance?

154.   If you think it doesn’t matter if God exists, is that an idea you are willing to live with and to die with?

155.   Who says it’s not urgent?

156.   How did you become so sure of the things you can’t be sure of?

157.   Is it possible that you still believe only because nothing really terrible has ever happened to you?

158.   Does your religion consist primarily of what you don’t do?

159.   When is going back ever going forward?

160.   Is there any situation in your life right now in which you need to man up?

161.   What might be the most honorable thing I can do at this moment?

162.   Is this about God calling you to holiness, rather than flawed men in the Church calling you to holiness?

163.   Do you think God will hold someone else responsible for your decisions?

164.   If you were the Devil, wouldn’t you try to destroy that which poses the greatest threat to you?

165.   If you don’t like organized religion, how about disorganized religion?

166.   Who gave you the right to decide which church you’re going to be in?

167.   Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to be an adult?

168.   What exactly is the Common Good?

169.   If you don’t join the Church because it’s broken, why would you still get married when so many marriages are broken?

170.   What does it mean to be a “fisher of men”?

171.   If God is calling smart men to himself, would you be one of those men? 

172.   Do you keep religion at a safe distance?

173.   Wasn’t the Church always Rome-referential?

174.   Would you want to believe in a God who is limited to material, non-transcendent explanation?

175.   Is your philosophy of life a position you are willing to live with and die with?

176.   In these days of cynicism, despair, and small ambitions, what do you have to offer the world?

177.   I mean, how many times is Figaro going to get married?

178.   Has cynicism become a safe space for you to protect yourself from God’s overtures?

179.   If God could give you a brand new life, even at this stage, would you be interested?

180.   What makes a question important?

181.   What do you want to be the big picture of your life?

182.   Do you think that the most important thing you can do in life, relative to your calling, might be both the easiest thing you can do, because of your gifting, and the most difficult thing you can do, because of resistance to it?

183.   Isn’t it interesting that Jesus used the word “if” so often?  If you do this, if you do that...

184.   Do you think it’s possible going forward, that God will gather up and use everything in your life that you’re proud of and view as a success, and everything that you’re ashamed of and consider a failure, to further his purposes in the world?

185.   Do I have a need for authority?  Yes.  Do you have a need for gravity?  How should we think about the objectivity of authority and gravity?

186.   Do we ask more of music than it is able to deliver?

187.   Has the “spiritual but not religious” philosophy of popular culture betrayed your generation?  Are you willing to find out?

188.   How do we think about the will of God being worked out in our own lives relative to how the will of God is also being worked out in the lives of those around us, especially in those lives which immediately affect our own?

189.   How much money do you need after you’re dead?

190.   What have you learned about doing something that you have to do but don’t want to do?

191.   What have you learned about being discouraged one day, and the next day not being so discouraged?

192.   If there is no longer a common bad, is there still a common good?

193.   Do you seek to be a fool, or do you seek something for which you may be considered a fool?

194.   Should Truth be judged by the actual, or perceived, character of its presenter?

195.   Is it possible at this stage of life that, although you know nothing about neurosurgery, in terms of human nature you know everything about the neurosurgeon?

196.   Do you think it’s possible that the full history of your life, failures and all, presents as your greatest asset for engagement with the world?

197.   Have you considered shocking everyone in your life by suddenly showing an interest in the things of God?

198.   What if God is not limited by anything that has happened in your life?  And what if everything that has happened in your life is actually useful to God?

199.   If heterosexuality, homosexuality, and infidelity are all genetically based, why would we not in our modern world encourage the expression of all three? 

200.   Does progressive ever become regressive?

201.   What cultural propaganda have you noticed lately?

202.   Have you grown tired of speaking only in the first and third person? 

203.   How is equality served when men and women compete on separate sports teams?

204.   Can politics provide hope?

205.   If your life up to this point has amounted to only five loaves and two fishes, would it interest you to know that God still intends to do something miraculous with your life?

206.   As an aging person, what do you have to offer the world?

207.   Do you think it’s good to tell children that they can be whatever they want to be?

208.   When are you going to give your life to God?  What are you waiting for, Christmas?

209.   How has your philosophy of life served you well or let you down?

210.   What conversations have you overheard recently, and what stands out about them?

211.   Isn’t it interesting that you’re the one who has to live your life and die your death?

212.   Isn’t it wonderful that there is nowhere to hide from yourself?

213.   What if Truth has come, breaking into the world without your invitation?

214.   Do you think I should care what you think of me?

215.   Have you noted that, if there are no more children, at some point there will be no more adults?

216.   Why would you restrain a personal desire for a greater good?

217.   Have you exhausted all knowledge about yourself?  Or is there more about you to be discovered, much to your satisfaction or chagrin?

218.   But what if the fear of losing yourself is an invitation to finding yourself?

219.   A house in Pebble Beach has a sign on the front, “The Finish Line.”   Really??

220.   What will happen to you if you don’t find a reason to live?

221.   Do you think it’s possible that your life right now has never been better situated to be of use to God in this world?

222.   Can the hardness of old age be penetrated with the proper instruments?

223.   Why would you require justice, and God not require it?

224.   What are the questions that would find you?

225.   Might this be a time of unprecedented spiritual opportunity?

226.   Has love ever overwhelmed fear in your life?

227.   Are you expanding your horizons to include God’s activity in your life?

228.   Does receiving justice mean getting what you want?

229.   If it’s about doing things your way, what if in the end your way is wrong?

230.   If God is calling you, and you refuse, what the hell else are you going to do in life?

231.   How can fame and loneliness go together?

232.   So, what’s your life about?

233.   Retire?  Retire to do what?

234.   Have you considered Jesus fully enough to properly dismiss him?

235.   Instead of showing us where to find the way to life, the truth about life, and life itself, what will we do with Jesus if he says he actually is all of those things?

236.   How did Jesus become a swear word?

237.   Is it good news for you that, as I get older, I’m learning a lot about myself as a human being?

238.   Do you know enough to know that you don’t know much?

239.   This long list of crazy questions...    What if you were to spin the bottle and ask God to have it point to a question you should consider today?

240.   Have you had a difficult experience in life that has also provided you with the one thing you have desired more than anything else — a reason to not believe?

241.   Will you gain greater influence and respect in your life when you are finally able to admit that you don’t know the answer to something?

242.   Would being able to say “I don’t know” introduce mystery and wonder to the fulcrum point of God’s activity in your life?

243.   What gets you out of bed in the morning?  Or...  DO you get out of bed in the morning? 

244.   If you manage to find your ducks, is it easy to get them in a row?

245.   What if an unwanted aging parent becomes like an unwanted pregnancy?

246.   Do you think that in three hundred years we’ll still be listening to ‘70s Classic Rock?

247.   If our thoughts of God are certainly limited, must they also be limiting?

248.   Has it become our cultural obligation to turn men into women and women into men?

249.   Do you remember when the headlights dimmer switch was under your left foot?

250.   When did perversion become courageous?

251.   If right now you’re the best you’ve ever been at what you do, why would you retire?

252.   Wouldn’t that be something?...

253.   Is there increasing resolve in your life about anything in particular as you grow older?

254.   If you believe in something that makes you feel better, provides you with purpose, and helps you make sense of the world, does it matter if that something is actually true?

255.   Do you find it more necessary to protect intellectual turf in a group setting than you do in a one-on-one conversation?

256.   Do you ignore Jesus for who he actually is, or for who you imagine him to be?

257.   Why is it now the customer who thanks the cashier, and not the cashier who thanks the customer?

258.   Do you feel that?...     it’s the passing of time...

259.   Were you born for such a time as this?

260.   Why would I be interested in your political views when I could be interested in your closely guarded human nature?

261.   Do you ask questions just so you can start talking?

262.   How does that even make sense for you to neglect the things of God?

263.   Would you be happy going through life with way more questions than you have answers?

264.   Do you wear sunglasses and headphones to block out the world?

265.   Do you have any stories about provision coming out of nowhere?

266.   Is there a fearful thing in your life that you need to go get, rather than waiting for it to come to you?

267.   What have you learned about expressing gratitude in your darkest moments?

268.   What’s true about your life right now that wasn’t five years ago?

269. If there’s a silver lining, will you find a cloud in it?

270.   Do you think you’ll be a good old man?...    a good old woman?

271.   How much of your depression do you think is chemical, and how much of it is existential?

272.   What’s at the heart of your religious disinterest?

273.   Do you allow yourself to think of aging in terms of gain rather than loss?

274.   How do you love someone who has everything he needs?

275.   At what point will we discover that you were not a perfect parent?

276.   As your parents failed you unknowingly, how do you imagine you might fail your kids?

277.   Are you aware that your life is a research project on human nature?

278.   Why shouldn’t a question get close to home?

279.   Is this about your failures, or is this about the size of God?

280.   Might God still do in and through your life what he has always intended?

281.   When your spouse is away, what is your experience of alone-ness?

282.   Why would you put off an encounter with God, if you actually can?

283.   Either in giving or receiving, are you trying to live an offense-free life?

284.   How can you not be caught up in what God is doing in these times?

285.   Do you think about deceased loved ones interceding for you?

286.   Why not just be a human being, with your need for God?

287.   What if God springs on you that unexpected moment?

288.   Wouldn’t it be something if God were big enough to have plans for you at this stage of your life?

289.   Have you noticed how well the green grass goes with the blue sky?

290.   How would you explain our ambivalence toward the question of God?

291.   Will you let negative family experiences be your reason for not pushing into what may be True?

292.   Do you think God is limited by decisions you made in the past?

293.   How important is it for you to know something before you need to know it?

294.   Why would an intellectual become a Catholic priest?

295.   Isn’t it a curious place to be when you think God is at work in you, but you don’t know how to explain it to anyone?

296.   Why do we fear, and feel the need to fill, empty space in conversation?

297.   But what if it’s True?

298.   What if there is no final conflict between your intellect and your faith?

299.   What if your not believing in it doesn’t change it?

300.   Is it more important that something be True than that it “works” for you?

301.   What is it about the human heart that desires another to be exposed, but not oneself?

302.   Why do we spend so much time and energy revealing so little about ourselves?

303.   Do you let yourself be bothered by the possibility that God is at work in you?

304.   How do your friends need you to love them?

305.   Do you consider the Christian message intellectually compelling?

306.   Do you persevere in something required of you, only to say “It’s my turn” when the requirement has passed?

307.   When have you ever said “I just can’t take it anymore”, and then discovered you could?

308.   If you’ve had no laments, have you had no life?

309.   If you think there’s something important to say, would you risk losing the relationship to say it?

310.   What part of getting counseling scares you the most?

311.   Would you protect a relationship at the expense of Truth?

312.   When we have finally solved all the world’s problems, will we have also solved the problem of you and me?

313.   Is it possible to love people by bothering them?

314.   Is your courage increasing?

315.   If men and women are equal, are they also the same?

316.   Why are your fears of greater interest to me than your beliefs?

317.   Why do the goals of we moderns feel played out even before they are achieved?

318.   Do you think democracy can survive in an increasingly self-regarding world?

319.   How important is it to you to not be criticized?

320.   How overwhelmingly marvelous is the love of God toward you?

321.   What is that human part of us that resists exploring what might unsettle us?

322.   If I become persuaded that something is True, why would I not bring my life into alignment with it?

323.   How much of self-directed mindfulness is just scented candle selfishness?

324.   Is mindfulness a problem if it starts with you?

325.   Does God have a view of mindfulness that challenges your own view?

326.   Why do we show so much disregard for God’s opinions?

327.   Why do we feel the need to interrupt someone else’s story to tell our own?

328.   Isn’t everyone being proselytized by someone?

329.   Are you going to go to your grave being careful?

330.   Do you realize that everyone’s not local somewhere?

331.   If I tell you about my family’s dysfunction, will you tell me about yours?

332.   If you recognize only self-Truth, will you recognize self-Deception if it occurs?

333.   How should I understand your decision to not pursue what may be True?

334.   If something has become a common practice in our culture, might that be reason enough to not do it?

335.   If you assemble your own reality, where will you go if it betrays you?

336.   Why is perseverance located at the edge of defeat?...   at the edge of despair?

337.   Do you think the Devil would use a good thing against you?

338.   Has your hobby become your purpose?

339.   Is there anything more lovely than the sound of a clarinet played poorly?

340.   If you’re a scientist, do you have any fears about what cannot be undiscovered or uninvented?

341.   How fearful a thing would it be for you if God were to call you out of your neutrality?

342.   Do you prefer talking to listening?

343.   Do you prefer people-pleasing to God-pleasing?

344.   Have you achieved the ultimate, only to discover that it has let you down?

345.   Do you spend your best hours of the day at the driving range while the world is going to hell?

346.   Are you the only person in the world who doesn’t have questions about meaning?

347.   Are you good at saying no to yourself?

348.   Why be obsessed with your body and not your soul?

349.   Why would a non-religious composer write sacred music?

350.   While caring for your body, your mind, your relationships, and your dog, is your soul just another component of life that needs attention?

351.   Why would one restrain any particular impulse?

352.   Why are you good at the thing you’re good at?

353.   What might be the poverty of a Harvard freshman?

354.   Is there any value in saying, “I should have done” such and such?

355.   Is relegating the miracles of Jesus to the category of myth just wishful thinking?

356.   Do you have any interest in trying to figure out what God is doing in the world, and then be part of it?

357.   Why be interested in proselytizing if it is perhaps the Truth itself that converts?

358.   Do you think the insistence that personal realities supersede societal norms poses a threat to the structure of that society?

359.   What do you fear about engaging with people?

360.   Have you begun the process of elimination of Jesus?

361.   Is the church that breaks off from the larger body always right?

362.   Are you trying to be interested in yourself, and uninterested in other people?

363.   What do you think is the first impression people have of you when they meet you?

364.   Are you all locked-up inside yourself?

365.   Would your life be a therapist’s field day?

366.   Isn’t it wonderful to be exposed for who you really are?

367.   What have you purchased in your life that hasn’t satisfied?

368.   Why does a person who publishes a cartoon of Jesus not receive death threats?

369.   Do you think any good thing can be distorted and abused?

370.   As you get older, don’t you have permission to recklessly consider the questions of life?

371.   Is it convenient for you to dismiss me as a Catholic?

372.   What do you think Jesus meant when he said, “But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”...?

373.   Why should coincidence always get the credit for something that might be of God?

374.   Why would an educated man cheat on his taxes?

375.   In this culture and generation, are the questions of life even being asked?

376.   How much of your personal philosophy springs from the belief in the perfectibility of humankind?

377.   Have you struggled to find your purpose because it’s not located where you’ve been searching?

378.   Have you noticed you can show up at a party with three questions and not have to say a thing all evening?

379.   What have you discovered digging around in your family history?

380.   Is your culture trying to sell you autonomy?

381.   Is it “Who is Christ to you?,” or “Who is Christ?” ?

382.   Have you ever been accused of being a philatelist?

383.   Are you only showing disrespect for yourself if you protect yourself from the questions of life?

384.   What if you don’t have in you all that you need?

385.   How do you worship a God you’ve dreamed up?

386.   If the resurrection of Christ actually occurred, how does that mess with the modern metanarrative about Christianity?

387.   Are you a “label and dismiss” person because you like the convenience?

388.   Why does everyone have to be either an atheist or a fanatic?

389.   Why can’t we just sit, and engage, and respect, and sip, and consider, and go “hmmm”, and then say, “Hey, this has been great, but I have to go home for dinner”...?

390.   So, the ancients were naive, and we’re not?

391.   Why do we moderns suffer from short (historical) memories?

392.   If it’s not wrong, why is it right?

393.   Is it possible that we feel guilty because we are?

394.   Did you know that the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) is all about freedom and joy?

395.   Why would you waste your time searching for something that you don’t want anyway?

396.   So, those models in the fashion magazines and the NY Times, with that look of cheerless contempt on their faces...  What are they selling?    Clothing?

397.   What exactly do your preferences have to do with choosing a church?

398.   What might be true about you if you never had to serve in the military?

399.   If I have a desire, how do I know if the expression of that desire is right or wrong?

400.   If you ever went to Confession, what would you confess?

401.   Do you think about your heart beating only a finite number of times?

402.   Are you interested in the Truth, or just interested in being properly aligned politically?

403.   Does considering Jesus amount to a marvelous and disturbing interruption of your life?

404.   What if our country’s problems are not primarily political, economic, or social, but philosophical?

405.   Are you causing the right kind of trouble in the world?

406.   Will you come visit me someday when I’m imprisoned for being a Catholic?

407.   If God is working in your life, is that a secret you’re keeping from yourself?

408.   What do you think is the most important question in the cosmos?

409.   Could the world be a system set against the things of God?

410.   At what cost would you examine your own mind and heart?

411.   Are we friends enough to go deep?

412.   What’s your responsibility to the younger generations?

413.   Is consent love?

414.   Would you be as depressed if you actually had something to live for?

415.   Isn’t it interesting that with a lot of this stuff we just have to die to find out?

416.   Is the world going to know what to do with you if you become a freely questioning person?

417.   Are you going to give your life to something less than what God has for you?

418.   Why should we be protected from any particular idea?

419.   Will you allow me to annoy you into the Kingdom?

420.   How important is politics when there is no longer a republic to govern?

421.   Do you really listen to what you talk about?

422.   Do you find that a lot of questions occur to you when you’re about halfway through your workout?

423.   Have you ever met someone who didn’t know that he’s not supposed to be interested in the things of God?

424.   Have you experienced the radical freedom of doing what only you can do in the world, so that God might do what only God can do in the world?

425.   How much success will you need in the world to be successful on God’s terms?

426.   If I’m more optimistic about your life than you are, is that something you might give thought to?

427.   Is it important to you to allow your assumptions to be properly troubled by new ideas?

428.   What is it about Jesus that keeps you away from him?

429.   If you decided to search for God, where would you look first?

430.   How might God maximize the trouble he wants to cause in the world through you?

431.   Are we to understand that everything between AD 100 and Luther is null and void?

432.   Is the United States made up of 328 million separate and autonomous realities?

433.   Does proper belief immediately equate with doing the will of God?

434.   Is the perspicuity of Scripture perspicuous?

435.   If Luther’s split from the Catholic Church established purity, did subsequent splits within the Protestant churches enhance that purity?

436.   What age are you trying to get to before they box you up?

437.   Are the odds of creation without a creator better than those for creation with a creator?

438.   What if God were to restore to your life “the years that the locusts have eaten”?

439.   If God wants you to live as though life is short, what will that life look like for you?

440.   How crazy is it that God would include you and me in the redemption story?

441.   Have you ever asked God to fix your passions on the things God wants your life to be about?

442.   What happens when you run out of excuses for not examining your own life?

443.   Why does oboe music make me cry?

444.   Are you just living for a bunch of here today, gone tomorrow bullshit?

445.   Why won’t you call out to God to help you through life?

446.   Why are most nicknames two syllables?

447.   Why should you trust your private judgments?

448.   Do we reduce the size of God every time we choose to worry or to be anxious?

449.   Are we determined to not understand what really happened at the Cross?

450.   What would your grandmother think about buying something brand new that has been made to look old?

451.   Why does a country club feel like a funeral home with a bar?

452.   If God gives you a calling, and the courage to do it, will you do it?

453.   What if God can put together the puzzle of your life better than you can?

454.   Would you be optimistic going to work for a company that has a permanent “Now Hiring” sign on the front of their building?

455.   What is the future of a republic that is losing its capacity for collective self-restraint?

456.   Why is Jesus not so appealing in an age of appealing spiritualities?

457.   I have no idea what’s going to happen to them...  The question is, what’s going to happen to you?

458.   Have you measured your burial plot to see if everything will fit?

459.   When are you going to stop fighting it, and be received into the Church?

460.   Has a closed door ever become for you a great gift?

461.   Might God lighten your spirit as he deepens it?

462.   Do you imagine that heaven will be full of laughter?

463.   Do you look like you know what you’re doing, even if you don’t?

464.   Are you telling me that the promise of Christ failed for 1500 years?

465.   Is it intrinsically prejudicial for members of an ethnic group to settle in the same area of a city?

466.   What if positive thinking and trusting God are not the same thing?

467.   Are the promises of God a cure for any man’s small ambitions?

468.   How do I get more of God into my little mind and heart?

469.   What if the problem with the Christian message is that it’s true?

470.   What have been the upsides and the downsides of your success?

471.   What if beauty has no utility?

472.   Is not even God allowed to talk you into anything?

473.   Why is it important for others to change, but not important for you to change?

474.   Is the sad thing just getting old, or is the sad thing just getting old without purpose?

475.   In the most life-giving sense, might God make of you a thoroughly meddlesome person?

476.   What is it to live in that pocket of God’s activity in the world?

477.   Why are we quick to be large before God, and slow to be small before God?

478.   So you are sustaining your life for as long as possible for what reason?

479.   Is modern music as agitated as the modern world?

480.   How often when we say “I need” do we actually need it right then, or at all?

481.   If it doesn’t matter to you that one becomes a Catholic, why do you suppose it has mattered to so many who are as smart and thoughtful and faithful as you?

482.   Is it a human flaw to require justice, or just a flaw of God?

483.   How does it make sense to be entrusted with a great gift and not share it with anyone?

484.   When will the improvement of video resolution exceed the capacity of the human eye to notice the difference?

485.   Have you ever thanked God for your circumstances as they are?

486.   Lived without God, will your life amount to misspent ordnance?

487.   What kind of person do you want to be asking you all of these questions?

488.   How should we think about the “modern” problem we have with not being allowed to do something?

489.   What are the factors that shut down our search for Truth?

490.   Is it discriminatory for a men’s night out to not include a woman, or a women’s night out to not include a man?

491.   What are the mannerisms of someone who is more confident in his worldview than he should be?

492.   What if you think you’re done when God thinks you’re just getting started?

493.   What are the top ten things you’ve learned about being a human being?

494.   Has it been your observation that, the thicker the wallet, the thinner the conversation?

495.   How taxing is it day after day, concealing your secret life?

496.   How much offensiveness can be removed from the Gospel?

497.   Have you observed how the books on your bookshelf sit and wait patiently, often for years, for you to take them down so they can share their insights with you?

498.   What are the things in life that you really don’t want to talk about anymore?

499.   What’s your religious life story?

500.   With good humor, are you willing to keep probing your soul, even if those around you don’t understand what you’re doing or why?

501.   Would you throw your lot in with God if he has promised to love you, provide for you, and guide you better than any human father ever could?

502.   Why do you suppose I’m more concerned about the spiritual life of men than the spiritual life of women?

503.   What problems is education unable to solve?

504.   What philosophical or religious compromises does your culture require of you?

505.   How do you think about and approach your job if it’s not the kind of work you want to be doing?

506.   How much does every religion need to be reduced in order to justify the claim that all religions teach the same thing?

507.   How did we ignore each other around the dinner table in the past, before we had cell phones?

508.   Wouldn’t you rather live a life in which the devil takes a concerned interest?

509.   Is it the role of the State to quantify a man’s love for his dog?

510.   What do you think could be the pathway out of where you are now?

511.   What are the things that are?

512.   With politics do we attempt to clean up a flooded basement without fixing the broken pipe?

513.   What would a life of faith look like in the absence of worry?

514.   Are you the only person exempt from the examination of conscience?

515.   What pursuit in your life would make the devil want to put the screws to you?

516.   Do you ever tire of quaint?

517.   What if God’s overtures toward you amount to an invitation?

518.   How might the despairing be helped by the formerly despairing?

519.   Have you considered that God must deny his own nature to refuse you hope?

520.   What predicament is presented if the Gospels are not imaginative literature, but narrative?

521.   Are those who see most clearly also those who will be most tempted?

522.   What do you appreciate about growing up when you did, where you did, and how you did?

523.   How committed are you to keeping the message of Christ impersonal?

524.   April 15, 2019...   Did you cry for Notre Dame today?

525.   Do you not want to find out what’s true about God because it might lead to what’s true about you?

526.   Who will help you identify those things in your life that you can’t see because you’re too close to them?

527.   What do your postures before God communicate to your children?

528.   Have you considered that the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura is self-refuting?

529.   When you were growing up, how did your family think about God?

530.   If you were handed a bad packet of genes, how have you coped with it?

531.   Someday will you tell me what you think about the big questions of life?

532.   Are you tethered to something that frees you?

533.   Have you chosen isolation from the lives of others?

534.   Is it the Devil’s great trick to keep you occupied with pursuits unthreatening to him?

535.   Are you a student of how you have always been?

536.   If you’re in a church that disagrees with another church, is that church less sincere than your church?

537.   What is your sweet spot of engagement with the world?

538.   Is it a modern virtue to discard classic virtues?

539.   Do you step into your calling each day?

540.   So, you will look into it?

541.   Do you give people any reason to be hopeful?

542.   Wouldn’t you rather talk about death than politics?

543.   What is cynical secularism dipped in sacred sentiment?

544.   Does the untruth about something eventually reveal itself?

545.   What do you want?

546.   Did your college education turn your Truth-seeking into a sophisticated dodge?

547.   Is the New York Times the only Truth you’re reading?

548.   Will you convert to Islam if it becomes required of you?

549.   Is national morality unrelated to personal morality?

550.   If it’s not all about you doing something, might a good part of life be about you being something?

551.   Have you found that aging addresses the fear of risk?

552.   How do you have Spring if there’s no Winter?

553.   Do monks redecorate their cells?

554.   If there are excesses in every war, should no war be fought?

555.   Is it the fault of men, or the fault of Islam, that violence is considered by many an appropriate expression of Islam?

556.   Is this life an exercise in what can never be fully satisfying?

557.   How many totalitarian states should have never happened?

558.   Why are we determined that no one should feel bad about anything?

559.   Have you ever survived an entire day of daytime television?

560.   Did you know that Jesus made mud out of spit?

561.   At what point will we speak frankly with our friends?

562.   At ninety will you still be cranking without being cranky?

563.   What are my responsibilities to you as your friend?

564.   How will you respond if your search for Truth circles down, circles down, circles down and deposits you at the foot of the Cross?

565.   How much regard for sentiment should our laws contain?

566.   Do you know enough about the Christian message to justify your disinterest?

567.   Do you need to be rescued from your small opinions of God?

568.   What if Christ is who your indifference says he’s not?

569.   Are you beginning to smell like your parents, or did you achieve that years ago?

570.   What if you only have today?

571.   What are distillation and aging producing in your life?

572.   Will God give you what you deserve, or what you need?

573.   Do you think married life challenges are thicker than single life challenges?

574.   Are 70 million songs in Apple Music enough?

575.   Will you give yourself over to God’s creativity?

576.   Do we seek an apostolate of popularity?

577.   Is Truth more likely located among the winsome?

578.   What is a simplified and yet expanded heart?

579.   How does education relate to the discernment of Truth?

580.   What do you want life to be about from here on out?

581.   Do you suffer from constant self-reference?

582.   What distractions occupy your time so that God won’t?

583.   What do you understand the Christian message to be?

584.   Are you more lonely than anyone would imagine?

585.   Will Islam take Europe without firing a shot?

586.   What if the Cross absorbed even your sins?

587.   Has your social environment isolated you from honest religious questions?

588.   How did censorship from the Right become censorship from the Left?

589.   Are there still timeless questions in the modern world?

590.   Is your life too much of a closed system to allow for friends?

591.   What if embracing the Truth is also an emotional experience?

592.   Is it a retired man’s purpose to spray weeds in his lawn with great devotion?

593.   What prison are YOU in?

594.   Is it the genesis of a totalitarian state to label you, dismiss you, and silence your voice?

595.   Are popular ratifications of desires unevenly applied?

596.   Do you find it fascinating that, although Jesus’ disciples were slow to catch on, the demons immediately “knew that he was the Christ”... ?

597.   Where in social interactions do you notice the tacit approval of religious suppression?

598.   Is Truth nostalgic?

599.   Is the privatization of religion the first step in its elimination from the public square?

600.   Do you find any solace in the apocalyptic?

601.   Does it excite you to consider that we may be beyond the point of no return?

602.   What if only God can get the horses back in the barn and the worms back in the can?

603.   How much of science should we utilize to create the unnatural?

604.   Are you looking for a casual experience of God?

605.   How might “where else am I going to go?” be an endorsement of a Truth claim?

606.   What’s the point of a protected Truth?

607.   How are you at managing your inclinations?

608.   If reason leads me to the door of revelation, why would I not open it?

609.   Have you ever come clean about something in your life, only to find those around you more understanding and supportive than you expected?

610.   So you’ve prayed for wisdom your whole life, and now you think you don’t have any?

611.   What if you made your life a blank canvas and handed God a brush?

612.   When the Church stopped penetrating the culture, did we become the disciples of nice?

613.   What if every road up the mountain doesn’t arrive at the top?

614.   Is the only battle you have to win the one you face today?

615.   What life questions might be asked by both a twenty-something and an eighty-something?

616.   Do you think we actually grow through adversity, or is that just something we’re supposed to believe?

617.   Do you engage in small talk as much as you used to?

618.   What’s your level of contentment?

619.   Do you have to bottom out before you can go up?

620.   Is our last unifying principle the language of rights?

621.   What’s the shape of your existential crisis?

622.   Can you go back to where you were?

623.   Have you experienced any defining moments?

624.   Can an action be immoral intrinsically, or only by its effect?

625.   Should science be required to solve the problems that science creates?

626.   Do you suppose we’ll all appreciate the clarity that death achieves?

627.   Are you fortunate enough to have a friend who cares enough about you to be a pain in your spiritual butt?

628.   Jesus calling you to follow him, and your response...  Could that be what all of this is about?

629.   Have you considered that an invention can never be uninvented, and a technology can never be undiscovered?

630.   When the viability of an elderly person falls below the viability of a human fetus, can an argument be made for the legal elimination of that elderly person?

631.   If you’re not hated by someone are you failing to do anything of consequence in the world?

632.   Do you like the idea of doing something better than actually doing it?

633.   Has technology outstripped our capacity to manage it?

634.   If you would leave the Church out of discouragement, would you also relinquish your U.S. citizenship out of discouragement?

635.   If the Church has never been destroyed from the outside, is it any surprise that some would try to destroy it from the inside?

636.   Will we reference nothing larger than the majority vote of a people?

637.   Are you hoping you’ll get angry enough at God at some point to justify walking away?

638.   Are you becoming the person you’re supposed to be?

639.   How is viability related to personhood?

640.   What is (name) going to let God do in his life?

641.   Is your final argument against God airtight, or are there leaks that only you would know about?

642.   Is convenience paramount?

643.   What are the strengths and weaknesses of a love-based ethic?

644.   Is this about Truth, or is this about your feelings?

645.   How is anything wrong that doesn’t adversely affect another?

646.   Is there tyranny in anything goes?

647.   Do you want life badly enough to press hard into where it may be found?

648.   Does grace cover our indifference?

649.   What if God can turn your baggage into an asset?

650.   Is there an ideology for which you are currently being groomed?

651.   Have you considered that melancholy is an expression of yearning?

652.   What new things are you trying to learn as an older person?

653.   Are comfort and ease closing in on you?

654.   Does your stupidity make it easier to go easy on the rest of us stupid people?

655.   Is liberation to be found in what you think, or in what might be so?

656.   Are you grateful both for the stories your life contains, and for those it does not?

657.   Why do we admire what we are not capable of?

658.   How can you not be interested in what may ultimately be so?

659.   Has noise become your cherished companion?

660.   If one would make a virtuous decision in the presence of others, why not when one is alone?

661.   How did tolerance move from allowing for what one disagrees with, to removing what one disagrees with?

662.   Is sin a private matter?

663.   What is a proper detachment from the things of this world?

664.   What if the great troubles in the Church reveal a battle at the center of its divine nature, a nature that issues an invitation to you in these days?

665.   Isn’t it a strange grace to discover that you’re as screwed-up as all the rest of us?

666.   Are ethics desire-based?

667.   Is your hope objectively so?

668.   Where is the darkest place hope can be found?

669.   What kind of luxury car would you want to be driving if you were going to die in a fiery crash?

670.   Are you using technology to promote conversation rather than to avoid it?

671.   What if the “too much water under the bridge” all belongs to God anyway?

672.   What if Truth is actually about a very few things?

673.   Is the American experiment unsustainable philosophically?

674.   Is your private judgment superior to the private judgment of an equally sincere and informed person?

675.   What are our tendencies when presented with something True?

676.   Does saving the West start with saving Bob?

677.   What medications are formulated to sustain abnormal body function?

678.   Have you run spiritual diagnostics on yourself?

679.   What if Truth is not a matter of opinion?

680.   Has your fear of doing something ever finally been overwhelmed by your desire to do it?

681.   If the fire is the Cross, do we not want to get too close?

682.   When was the last time you read the Gospels and honestly considered what was going on?

683.   Don’t you think everyone needs to have a spiritual crisis?

684.   What do people notice when they’re dying?

685.   Is morality subjective only until it affects you?

686.   Does our popular culture love cults because we think they give us permission to avoid all Truth claims?

687.   Do your friends know that, whatever they believe or don’t believe, you will always be their friend?

688.   What would constitute giving a culture enough rope to hang itself?

689.   How much does God bring into our lives that we don’t want, but probably need?

690.   Who cares what you think?

691.   Why when we’re telling a story do we tune in, and when someone else is telling a story we tune out?

692.   Have you ever felt that you were on the edge of either great spiritual breakthrough or complete spiritual collapse?

693.   Do you think the exception should be the rule?

694.   Have you noticed how the temperature increases as you get closer to the Truth?

695.   Can you bring yourself to thank God for your life as it has been?

696.   What is at the core of life?

697.   Is this life all about what happens next?

698.   Is it ok to admit that we don’t know how to talk about something?

699.   What if the resurrection of Jesus is a fact of history, making it an objective reality?

700.   How is it that we don’t spend every waking hour searching for the Truth?

701.   If we discover that one man is genetically inclined to save money, and another man is genetically inclined to steal money, will we continue to place a value judgment on those actions?

702.   What’s the most important thing to do right now?

703.   What are the raw...   maybe even very raw...   materials in your life that God might use to create something beautiful...    something marvelous?

704.   What are the custom-made questions for you?

705.   Why would a man just want to get in, but not help others get in?

706.   What is the role of the question in a mutual search?

707.   Does the Devil have reason to worry about you?

708.   What is the call of God on your life for the rest of your life?

709.   Who decides when the Church has finally become acceptable to its surrounding culture?

710.   Do you honor God in private?

711.   In a genetic engineering world, will we allow a woman to dispose of a fetus she doesn’t want, and then prohibit her from creating the fetus she does want?

712.   What if modern cultural humanitarianism is not God’s humanitarianism?

713.   What if the Devil wants you to be a good person?

714.   When you look deep into your secret life, what do you see?

715.   If the whole thing about Jesus is true, how can it not matter?

716.   Are you aware that every time you write the date you reference the appearance of Christ in the world?

717.   Is waiting necessarily a passive position?

718.   If there are perspectives that speak to the compatibility of science and faith, do you have any interest in exploring them?

719.   Why is the (formerly) blind man’s question in John 9:36 possibly the greatest human question ever asked?

720.   Are you willing to study the question of whether the followers of Jesus turned him into the Christ?

721.   Are you in charge of stating and interpreting the Universe’s intentions?

722.   Does the Universe take the form of the religion you desire?

723.   Don’t you just want to go home?

724.   Do you want to find your way to the center of things?

725.   Would you follow the Truth, even if it meant living your life in total anonymity?

726.   If you’re just going to ignore Jesus, why not instead man up and reject him outright?

727. How can the genetic engineering of children be wrong if enough people want it to be right?

728.   When did what is wrong move from being permitted to being advocated?

729.   Have you had any experiences in life that have reduced your fears?

730.   For all of this to be on God’s terms and not yours is the big kicker, isn’t it?

731.   Have you moved beyond your flat-earth view that Truth is unknowable?

732.   Are you able to pray without saying “just” or “and uhh” ?

733.   For what condition do you currently need a surgeon?

734.   Are you going to faithfully walk your dog every day, but not search for the Truth every day?

735.   Does the message of Christ strike you as an inconvenient truth?

736.   What might God do to invert your fears?

737.   Would you be open to a reduced life on your terms if an expanded life were offered to you on God’s terms?

738.   What is the way into each heart?

739.   Have you ever imagined Elmer Fudd singing chant?

740.   What does faithfulness look like in the present circumstance?

741.   Do you want to be a saint, or just to be known as one?

742.   How come greeting card shops have cards with sayings from various spiritual figures, but the only Jesus card is a cartoon of him dressed up like Santa?

743.   Who doesn’t find disagreement with Jesus to be exciting on some level?

744.   Can you live life fully without living life faithfully?

745.   If you can, you should...   right?

746.   Are we able to discern when evil is masquerading as good?

747.   What if the Truth about God also includes the truth about God’s love for you?

748.   What if you took the Devil’s weapons and used them against him?

749.   Is it true that you can no longer claim Invincible Ignorance?

750.   Was it her decision to leave, or your decision to never commit?

751.   What intrigues you, excites you, or bothers you about the prospect of God’s activity in your life?

752.   Is it your responsibility to respond to the truth that is available to you?

753.   Are you bailing on all of your relationships that you find challenging?

754.   Is it wise to put your trust in wise decisions?

755.   What would a man of God do in this situation?

756.   What did you learn about yourself in situations that you didn’t want to be in?

757.   What are the surgical questions of life?

758.   Are you saying that it’s not just your decision what the Biblical text means, but it’s also your decision that it’s your decision what the text means?

759.   Is a difference of opinion now considered harassment?

760.   Is it easy to leave over the suffering, but difficult to remain where you end up?

761.   If some people are stuck in the past, are you stuck in the present?

762.   Do you seek a “front-of-the-house” spiritual experience without the “back-of-the-house” inconveniences and demands?

763.   Are men and women simply interchangeable?

764.   Why would a scientist be concerned about moral considerations?

765.   Do you think it’s possible to be both smart and blind?

766.   Is every church plant an attempt to perfect the concept?

767.   How should we think about knowledge as it relates to wisdom?

768.   If you’re someone who refuses to look at his spiritual life, does that mean you’re out of touch?

769.   Are you a winner at money, and a loser at life?

770.   Is a Truth corrupted by corrupt individuals?

771.   Are you determined that your life will be a self-managed narrative?

772.   When did the celebration of decadence become an advertising concept?

773.   What if you feel you’re going in the right direction, but you’re actually not?

774.   Has Truth been reduced to a majority opinion?

775.   Have you always known that there are lots of excuses if you’re looking for them?

776.   Is a “knowing what you know now” question even useful?

777.   Have you learned too much to turn back?

778.   What gives us the authority to say that any particular proposition is unimportant?

779.   What is the role of human desire in the establishment of laws?

780.   Do you deliberately choose to consider the most bothersome questions of life?

781.   Are you living an examined life?

782.   Are you living an examined life in regard to the claims of Christ?

783.   Is an unexamined life worth living?

784.   When a church splits over a doctrinal issue, who decides which side is right?

785.   Would you expect no spiritual battle over the soul of the Church?

786.   Will you allow corrupt men to obstruct your search for the Truth?

787.   Have you determined that your own spiritual designs are not subject to error?

788.   Is any part of this your fear of what you might discover?

789.   Is the Devil offering you a distorted version of reality?

790.   How badly do you want to be counter-cultural?

791.   Why would you do that when you could do this?

792.   What if God does not despise what you have learned “outside of the Kingdom,” but instead will utilize those insights to accomplish marvelous things within the Kingdom?

793.   Should a truth be measured by the virtue of its presenters?

794.   Should we be skeptical of any corporation’s altruistic initiatives?

795.   Is it more important to you to run your own life than to give it over to what the Truth may be?

796.   Do you serve in order to receive recognition?

797.   Does desire trump nature?

798.   Should we legislate on the exception?

799.   What is perseverance if it is not in difficult times?

800.   Has the corruption in the Church become a convenient reason for you to not pursue the truth about God and the truth about you?

801.   Have you taken the step of faith of thanking God for your present circumstances?

802.   When does a non-essential matter become essential (or vice versa), and who decides?

803.   Does your culture assume that you will make assumptions about how to live?

804.   Might it be a grace of God that you cannot unknow what you have come to know?

805.   Can natural selection fully explain the presence and nature of beauty?

806.   How does it make sense to give your mortality no thought?

807.   Have you had any experience with something called a “follow-up question”?

808.   Do you view the Christian message as just an invitation to improve your life?

809.   Have you stopped telling God what he’s capable of doing?

810.   How am I to think about the absence of transitional forms in the fossil record?

811.   Can the American experiment survive the disappearance of the references and restraints that make democracy possible?

812.   What are you considering?

813.   Why pursue holiness in a time when it seems that even God couldn’t care less?

814.   Do you believe that government can be finally separated from religious reference?

815.   How about no fear, but rather love, grace, and amazement?

816.   What is it with men and their trucks?

817.   Do you allow yourself to be alone with your thoughts about yourself?

818.   What is that?...     what is that whispering?...   do you hear that whispering?...   do you hear that?...    is that the Devil whispering to you that none of this matters?

819.   Is the object of objectivity to not be subject to subjectivity?

820.   When does commitment become no longer a matter of the mind but of the will?

821.   Have you noticed how interesting a conversation can be from a technical standpoint, and yet so uninteresting from a human standpoint?

822.   Is it that you won’t rest until you do because you can’t rest until you do?

823.   Where are you going to find a better offer than what God is offering?

824.   Have your fears given way to a relentless hope?

825.   Have you told God that, if he shows you what the Truth is, you’ll give your life to it?

826.   What is your depression about?

827.   How can a custom-made God even be God?

828.   Could relevance include restoring some things ancient?

829.   When does anyone have the right to say, “that’s not right” ?

830.   Was it only a matter of mind that I wept at the Agnus Dei?

831.   What happens when an external reality penetrates a closed system?

832.   What Truth claims have you encountered that you can push against?

833.   Do you see yourself as someone who is honest in matters of mind and heart?

834.   What do you love and hate about your life?

835.   At this point, what disillusionments or disappointments have kept you from drilling deeper?

836.   What if your life has not been wasted, but has been an investment that will now pay out in wisdom and insight?

837.   Is history a problem if it’s true?

838.   Have you ever given up hope, only to discover later that you should have hung in there?

839.   Do you have any “darkest before the dawn” stories to share with a despairing world?

840.   Do you thank God that you have been called to live in such troubled times?

841.   With a once-guarded mind is there a twice-guarded will?

842.   When was the atomic bomb invented?  When was it uninvented?

843.   Can you describe a time in extremis, when you needed to, and did, persevere?

844.   Is your career asking you to sell a little bit more of your soul every day?

845.   Are you aware that Jesus said most people will choose the wrong way in life?

846.   Why would I look it up when I could just ask you?

847.   How badly do you not want to be unpopular?

848.   If your math teacher were abusive, would two plus two still equal four?

849.   Is there any safe place outside of God’s will?

850.   Would you be ok with dying if you felt you were in the act of fully living?

851.   What is to be sought that is genuinely good?

852.   Does hope become a reality only as it is seasoned in hard times?

853.   How long are you going to remain a spectator in all of this?

854.   How much of what has historically been considered unnatural should now be permitted and even encouraged?

855.   Have you ever prayed a litany of complaints to God?

856.   Are we big fans of multiculturalism until any particular culture begins to press in on our own?

857.   Why would a father ever put his son to a test?

858.   Must scientific discovery lead to human flourishing?

859.   How should we think about sustainability in a world that science tells us cannot ultimately be sustained?

860.   What if a search for Truth is not about finding the information you need, but about giving yourself permission to access it?

861.   Do you expect from others what you do not expect from yourself?

862.   Do you pray for the gift of supernatural expectation?

863.   Do you sometimes feel like a scoundrel because you are?

864.   Is there in you a holy carelessness?

865.   Is your life encumbered by too much concern for yourself?

866.   Do the sins of others justify your own?

867.   When your friend shares something about his life, do you receive it, or do you immediately counter it with your own story?

868.   How should we think about viability and burden?

869.   If your parents had the option of eliminating you, should you now have the option of eliminating them?

870.   Will the Antichrist be a nice guy?

871.   Is there a cost to naturalizing the unnatural?

872.   If she never finds out about it, then it’s not wrong, right?

873.   Do you allow your own life to be a laboratory for question development?

874.   Do you observe yourself?

875.   Does desire supersede principle?

876.   Should we legislate on gender impulse?

877.   Do we discriminate every day as part of normal human decision-making?

878.   Is there a difference between optimism and hope?

879.   Is nice better than true?

880.   As we speak truth to power, should we also speak truth to desire?

881.   Did you know that “What?” is the all-time greatest answer to the question, “Did you bring your hearing aids?”

882.   Why would I care that you believe in the same thing that I believe in for the sake of that?

883.   Have you gone to school on yourself?

884.   Might something be True if no man were true to it?

885.   How does revulsion correspond to reality?

886.   It’s difficult, isn’t it, to not talk about yourself?

887.   What is the power of a question over a statement?

888.   What exactly is a gourmet burger?

889.   Is your desire to get out greater than your promise to stay in?

890.   If you honor God with your decisions, is that God not big enough to provide for you?

891.   If a number of pastors in your denomination were found to have committed adultery, would you leave that denomination?

892.   How can a decision for belief or unbelief be fixed if there is always more to encounter?

893.   Do you have just enough to hold on?

894.   Are you capable of every vile thing?

895.   Are you thinking minimum while God is thinking maximum?

896.   Do you want to want to be loose in the world for God’s purposes?

897.   How can any decision in life be more important than the decision you face at this moment?

898.   Have you familiarized yourself with the anatomy of temptation?

899.   Is it the case that the more time I spend focused on your sins the less time I will have to focus on my own?

900.   Will you depart when it seems that God too has gone away?

901.   Have you considered the pursuit of holiness to be a grand and joyful challenge?

902.   With both the Church and our nation do we endure because we hope for a better day?

903.   Do we long for the redemption of reason as much as we long for the redemption of our souls?

904.   Did you know that God’s plans for you will not be impeded by your view of yourself?

905.   Is God caged by your small thoughts?

906.   Do the troubles in the Church alter the fact of the Church?

907.   Is the Devil’s goal the privatization of your religion or non-religion?

908.   When you get up in the morning, what do you hope for?

909.   Are you afraid to have a wrong answer to a question?

910.   Would God call you to something and not give you the ability to do it?

911.   Does longing increase with age?

912.   Is all of life about finding a way into another life?

913.   What does a man not want to find out about himself?

914.   What is the crux (cross) of the matter?

915.   Is there a world-wide shortage of inquirers?

916.   Do we not search for the Truth with both our minds and our hearts?

917.   So, what are we supposed to do with Jesus if he says he IS the Truth?

918.   What is the future of a society that has lost its capacity to say no?

919.   Are you fitting life in before you go?

920.   Are you looking to finish it, or to savor it?

921.   Are you a man of practical compassion?

922.   Is despair the gift that strips away pretense?

923.   Do you drive with just your left hand because you’re holding your phone with your right hand?

924.   Do you care enough about people to know when to shut up?

925.   Is an action wrong only by its effect, and not by its nature?

926.   As you age, are you turning into the worst version of yourself?

927.   How do you think about the distraction of the good?

928.   Do you have any stories of lost hope recovered?

929.   Can you imagine your life lived to the fullness of God’s intention?

930.   Is agnosticism your strategy as much as it may be your belief system?

931.   If your friends won’t annoy you spiritually, who will?

932.   What if Yeshua is the Passover lamb?

933.   To die well, what are this moment’s decisions?

934. Is it simply your personal faith that validates the Eucharist?

935.   Does Universalism betray reality?

936.   Who gave us permission to project intent on those who came before us?

937.   What would a proper rejection or a proper reception of Jesus look like?

938.   Is there in every conversation a way into the heart of things?

939.   Has God called you to such a time as this?

940.   Are you saying that the Church is an invisible reality like Israel was an invisible reality?

941.   What if you haven’t burned so many bridges that you can’t go back to God?

942.   What’s one of your favorite places to not spend any time?

943.   What if it’s important to think about it even if you don’t think it’s important to think about it?

944.   Do your opinions on a topic carry more weight than the historical data?

945.   Is skepticism the food we eat?

946.   Who says?

947.   Have you experienced a long wait with God?

948.   Is morality established by the majority vote of a people?

949.   Are you satisfied with your religious ideas?

950.   Will your world get larger if you allow it to become smaller?

951.   If you ever change your mind, for God’s sake, will you get in touch with me?

952.   If you live another thirty years, do you realize you’ll be able to talk about life in the 20s, the 30s and the 40s?

953.   Are you too heavenly minded to be of any earthly good, or are you too earthly minded to be of any heavenly use?

954.   Will you turn to or from the Church in these challenging times?

955.   Is a reckless life with God the most secure life?

956.   How could a man not have the time for the most important search of his life?

957.   Did you know that those who have the most arguments with God are those who walk most closely with him?

958.   Are you going to pursue God’s will for you this year?

959.   Do your friends let you get away with your little bag of religious deflections?

960.   Did you know that the greatest heresies contain elements of truth?

961.   How do we help our culture find its way to the very bottom?

962.   When does desire override every other consideration?

963.   Does evolution fully explain our moral impulses?

964.   How do you know if you’re drinking too much?

965.   What kinds of anesthesia are you into to deaden the pain of an empty life?

966.   What are the intentions of Islam?

967.   Are you trying to stay one step ahead of your mortality?

968.   Is the Gospel more important than one’s resistance to it?

969.   How does one live with an unresolvable sadness?

970.   The Catholic asks, “What is so?”  The Protestant asks, “What do I want to be so?”  Your thoughts?

971.   Is it a concern to you that God knows the inner workings of your heart?

972.   Is religious ambivalence a trap?

973.   What is it with the gravitational pull of Catholicism?

974.   What if what is desired replaces what is?

975.   Do you think you will apostatize during the great apostasy?

976.   Do we put off living while waiting for our circumstances to change?

977.   Does your attempt to get your friend out of a burning building violate his right to decide for himself?

978.   The Israelites grumbled.  The psalmist complained.  What’s the difference?

979.   Did you know that God can always find the money?

980.   If the message of Jesus is true, how does it not rearrange everything?

981.   In religion do we consider what may be objectively so?

982.   Do you commit virtual adultery?

983.   Are you embracing mindfulness on your own terms?

984.   What if religious truth doesn’t start with my opinion of it?

985.   If this is not my calling, can you tell me what I should be doing instead?

986.   What in life do you think is worth doing that can never be fully accomplished?

987.   If there is enough food in the world to feed everyone, why do we still have hungry people?

988.   Will you tell me something today that I probably need to hear?

989.   Do you think the New York Yankees should draft women players to spearhead a movement?

990.   Can a civilization survive the endorsement of every inclination?

991.   When does it become a question of whether or not it’s true?

992.   If you’re not going to let God give you your purpose, where are you going to find it?

993.   If you encounter what you become convinced is True, will you embrace it?

994.   If you’re not going to spend the rest of your life looking into this, what ARE you going to spend the rest of your life looking into?

995.   Is torching straw men your hobby?

996.   Does human nature change with advancing technologies?

997.   If it’s the Truth we seek, rather than our own honor, why should we be afraid to go forward?

998.   If our laws reference the Constitution, what does the Constitution reference?

999.   If religion is the problem, would you have a problem with an atheist cutting you off in traffic?

1000.   Do you think the human improvement project is being realized?

1001.   Would you want to believe in a God reduced to human definition?

1002.   Have you opted out of marriage so you don’t discover more about yourself than you want to know?

1003.   Speaking of naive ancients, was Pascal’s understanding of probability theory less sophisticated than yours?

1004.   Did you ask your wife to prove her love for you scientifically before you would marry her?

1005.   How could a God proved in a laboratory be God?

1006.   Is Islam a benign presence?

1007.   How would you know if your culture is selling you a bill of goods?

1008.   It couldn’t be that you’re the problem, right?

1009.   Why wouldn’t I try to convert you?

1010.   Where are the men who live for what is honorable, rather than to be honored?

1011.   Your thoughts on Utopianism?

1012.   “Question Authority” ??...     Yours too?

1013.   So, what do you think about life and death and God and purpose and meaning and stuff like that?

1014.   Do you and your wife agree on when the toothpaste tube is finally empty?

1015.   Is part of your depression caused by the fact that, intuitively, you know that politics can’t save this country?

1016.   Why would I believe in something to make me feel better if I wasn’t convinced it was objectively so?

1017.   Why spend your entire life trodding on buried treasure when it is located inches below your feet?

1018.   What activities or interests have you grown into or out of over the years?

1019.   If there’s something we should talk about, why not do it now rather than later?

1020.   How did you deal with the dark days when you thought they would never end?

1021.   When is a law just a suggestion?

1022.   Are you familiar with the Catholic principle of never being afraid to follow a truth, wherever it may lead?

1023.   How much of yourself is mixed in with your atheism?

1024.   What if Truth proceeds from Love and is therefore not to be feared?

1025.   Is the greatest learning found in the experiences you’ve already had?

1026.   I ask this as a believing man...  Why does God seem to spend so much time on vacation?

1027.   What is the modern rationale for NOT euthanizing old people?

1028.   Are you too proud to admit your need for God?

1029.   What if your disbelief in God doesn’t make him go away?

1030.   What do you want more, a purpose that God gives you, or a purpose that you’ve come up with yourself?

1031.   What is socially conscious self-indulgence?

1032.   Why would you give your life to a lesser Truth?

1033.   If these are the last days, is it any wonder that there is great conflict at the center of things?

1034.   Have you released to God all rights to your life?

1035.   What wonderful trouble are you going to stir up for God today?

1036.   What if the call to holiness extends to you and to me, as well as to them?

1037.   Does our sense of justice come from a chemical process in our brain?

1038.   Does two plus two equal four?  Why?

1039.   What some would call evil acts, would others call uneducated acts?

1040.   Did you know that one of the attributes of the Antichrist will be his great concern for humankind?

1041.   Are you maturing into childlikeness?

1042.   What is it to be childlike without being childish?

1043.   If you have a son, have you tried to raise him to be a man?  If so, how?

1044.   What makes a bad interviewer?

1045.   Might we be as interested in Christ as we may be in our reasons for not being interested?

1046.   Are you not going to open the Gospels and consider Jesus, even as you faithfully take your depression medication?

1047.   What do you think you’re being asked to believe in?

1048.   Do you see the world’s problems as being entirely outside of yourself?

1049.   When should a desire be expressed, and when should it be restrained?

1050.   Do you know the fear of man, but not the fear of God?

1051.   Are any of your decisions based on something larger than your desires?

1052.   Do you think evolution completely explains why you live your life the way you do?

1053.   Do you have plans to become an adult anytime soon?

1054.   What should legitimately restrain liberty?

1055.   Why is the unpopular view problematic and the popular view is not?

1056.   Should a question automatically be perceived as judgment?

1057.   If Jesus is just a great humanitarian, why does his call on our lives provoke such a strong reaction within us?

1058.   If marriage is just “a piece of paper,” why does your PhD have to be “a piece of paper” for you to get an academic job?

1059.   If you try to live by Christian principles without following Christ, doesn’t that make you just a spectator?

1060.   What do you see as the greatest challenges in the world, and your role in meeting them?

1061.   Have you considered that the Protestant Reformation simply exchanged one pope for many?

1062.   What would faithfulness to your calling look like to you?

1063.   Would you laugh if I suggested to you that Christ is the portal into eternity?

1064.   Has God come and disturbed your ownership of your own life?

1065.   If you and Jesus find yourselves in a room together, what will you talk about?

1066.   Would you even want to follow a God who could be “proved” in a laboratory?

1067.   Is the message of Christ an intrusion, an invitation, or both?

1068.   Is it actually the love of God that brings an unsentimental severity to spiritual considerations?

1069.   Do we desire light even as we avoid it for fear of exposure?

1070.   How should we think about expressions of morality that are said to be contrary to natural law?

1071.   What does democracy need to survive?

1072.   Are independent Bible churches an expression of Christian spiritual presumption?

1073.   If history delivers the Church to you, should you create your own instead?

1074.   What would be the social cost to you of becoming a Catholic?

1075.   Why would one engage a greater Truth only to follow a lesser truth?

1076.   When did it become the Church’s role to endorse the desires of the prevailing culture?

1077.   What if meaning and purpose are found only in service to the Truth?

1078.   Does it bother you when you’re sick at home for a few days and the world goes on without you?

1079.   What if God would rather you complain to him than ignore him?

1080.   Does external reality trump internal desire?

1081.   How does moral integrity survive public opinion?

1082.   How many wrongs make a right?

1083.   Are you a life-giving or a life-sucking presence when you’re with other people?

1084.   Is love increasing in your life even more than fearlessness?

1085.   Is it that God’s truth is unfindable, or that our hearts are impenetrable?

1086.   Do you have the freedom to consider what someone has said before responding?

1087.   Do we look back in time to judge the Church, or does the Church look forward in time to judge us?

1088.   Yes, the Church is deeply broken in many ways, but how will you respond to God’s call on your own life?

1089.   Is freedom found more in the restraint of desire than in the expression of desire?

1090.   A hundred years from now will people ask, “What the hell were they thinking?” ?

1091.   Do you think the demons reacted so violently to Jesus because of his ethical teachings?

1092.   Whatever happened to that cultural remnant of decency?

1093.   Would you die for something you had made up?

1094.   Do you ever think of deception in your life as becoming more and more refined?

1095.   Would you rather not know what the answers are to anything?

1096.   If the Devil wanted to deceive you, what approach do you think would work?

1097.   What if it’s true?  How can we not press into it?

1098.   Is it that God has been tried and found wanting, or that God has not been tried?

1099.   Will you die for an imperfect cause?

1100.   How much permission do you think you need to engage with someone on a personal level?

1101.   If you hold your life loosely in your hand, will God hold it firmly in His?

1102.   If God is doing a larger thing, what fool would not desire it?

1103.   Do your hands need to be trained for war?

1104.   Have you ever been so amazed by something that it overwhelmed your fears?

1105.   What are you going to do for the rest of your life?

1106.   Do you think it’s possible that the more we are exposed to Catholic thought, the more accountable we are to it?

1107.   Do you need something from God to persuade you that it’s not just religious motion?

1108.   Why would you not read the Gospels if you’re going to be dead soon?

1109.   What does one appeal to to regulate desire?

1110.   Why not attempt to exhaust the promises of Christ?

1111.   What do you do with your faith when it doesn’t “work” for you anymore?

1112.   Have you asked God to find the center of you and to claim it for himself?

1113.   Is a prayerless life a life not worth living?

1114.   What is an immoral act but only that which inflicts pain on another?

1115.   Do people outside of your family have permission to criticize your family?

1116.   Have you lived just enough life to know what I’m getting at?

1117.   Are we justifiably accused of euphemizing abortion?

1118.   Do you want what God wants, or do you want God to authorize what you want?

1119.   What if Truth, by its very nature, is at odds with the world?

1120.   Whatever happened to the good old days when friendship could survive disagreement?

1121.   Why would you try to protect yourself if it’s not about you?

1122.   Without realizing it do you deliberately make choices that feed your anxiety?

1123.   Do we underestimate the capacity of the young to receive and respond?

1124.   Do you caricature religion in order to create a safe space for yourself?

1125.   How does one make room for interior honesty in matters of truth and faith?

1126.   What if God’s plans for you will incorporate much of what you’ve already learned, expressed, pursued, and longed for in life?

1127.   Does our greatest potential arrive in old age?

1128.   Have you had any experience with the corrosive power of cynicism?

1129.   Might naïveté know the virtue of innocence?

1130.   Are SATB parts in choral music representative of the complimentary nature of men and women?

1131.   How much of your soul are you willing to sell?

1132.   Have you been introduced to the laughter of faith?

1133.   Isn’t it interesting how coincidence gets all the press?

1134.   What is one little thing you don’t do, the importance of which escapes you?

1135.   Do you need more out of life than three squares, a mystery novel, and some evening television? 

1136.   Have you considered that the deception is in the deflection?

1137.   Why is “independence” considered an important feature of some Protestant churches?

1138.   Do we prefer knaves to saints because knaves call us to something lower, and saints call us to something higher?

1139.   How much about your life would you want everyone to know about?

1140.   Is yours a lifelong search for the white-hot center of things?

1141.   Why lose yourself in the spreadsheets of life if two plus two no longer equals four?

1142.   What have you learned about waiting for God to do something?

1143.   If Jesus offers a hard hope instead of a soft hope, would you still be interested?

1144.   Will you give yourself permission to explore what God might have for you?

1145.   Did you know that, when God is in something, all the real estate is the same price?

1146.   If every Christian is a hypocrite, but Jesus is still the Christ, what will you do?

1147.   Did you know that God’s adventure for you is custom-made?

1148.   Do our sexual desires define us as human beings just as, say, our clinical depression defines us as human beings?

1149.   How are you pushing against this modern world of hyper-distraction?

1150.   How is all of life not somehow about the end of things?

1151.   Can you give me one good reason why you’re not going to give your life to God?

1152.   How long will you let Jesus sleep in the boat?

1153.   How much of my own foolishness is God’s faithfulness going to compensate for?

1154.   Will you allow your understanding of Catholicism to be fully examined?

1155.   What is faith in easy times when it isn’t faith in hard times?

1156.   Does it bother you that there is nothing in your life with which the Lord is not acquainted?

1157.   Do you see nothing, finally, as as obstacle too great for God to overcome?

1158.   Will you say yes to secular culture at the cost of your soul?

1159.   If your culture hands you a template, is that what you will use to choose a church?

1160.   Does the Church deal in supernatural realities, or is it just a spiritual version of Goodwill Industries?

1161.   Is there a kind of foolishness that God honors?

1162.   Have you ever thanked God for being trapped in your circumstances?

1163.   What challenges precipitate our retreat into a guarded life?

1164.   Is it enough for you that God gives you provision for this day?

1165.   Are you uncomfortable with the unanswerable question?

1166.   Is God working a reduction of your life that he might expand it?

1167.   Who would you choose to captain the Titanic after it hits the iceberg?

1168.   When the vandals are at the gates, will we bake them cookies?

1169.   Are you trying to be stupid about life?

1170.   Do you get tired of learning things?

1171.   When faced with these marvelous eternal things, do you hear the transactions occurring in your soul?

1172.   If you have an impulse to pursue something in your life, how should you think about it if it doesn’t work out?

1173.   Does God deal in contracted or expanded worlds?

1174.   Why make a myth of what may be an objective historical reality?

1175.   Do we approach human perfection by maximizing individual freedoms?

1176.   At what cost will you be true to yourself?

1177.   Do you ever think of the brevity of life as an invitation?

1178.   What diversions would you recommend to optimize the distracted life?

1179.   Are your children real, or are they just a projection of your imagination?

1180.   Have you ever been provided for in a way you didn’t want to be?

1181.   How secure are our securities?

1182.   Have you ever thanked God that you can’t see how something is going to work out?

1183.   Why must our first response to difficulty be grumbling, rather than gratitude?

1184.   Do you consider it liberating to obey the speed limit?

1185.   Are you fine-tuning everything in your life to maximize happiness and minimize sadness?

1186.   Would you rather create meaning than receive it?

1187.   Have you considered that a question is a tool to disturb the soil in anticipation of seed?

1188.   Has history already chosen which church you should attend?

1189.   Do you find it difficult to accept an apology because you so rarely give one?

1190.   When did assigning blame become our national pastime?

1191.   What if a man allowed Christ to be everything to him?

1192.   Grateful, for what, to whom?

1193.   Have you noticed that you’re never part of the problem?

1194.   Do you think it’s true that the best people to govern our country would never be elected?

1195.   What should we do with a truth claim that’s put forward by someone who’s a jerk?

1196.   Can the Church survive the private judgments of each member?

1197.   Do we lean heavily on the invisible church idea because we can’t otherwise justify the fractured nature of the Protestant world?

1198.   Are we occupied only with holding ground and not taking it?

1199.   If prayer is not work to you, are you actually praying?

1200.   If Rome and Canterbury disagree, what should we do?

1201.   How do you think about it?

1202.   Do you continue to argue with God about evil in the world, or has that topic become an excuse for no further engagement?

1203.   If this is just about you and Jesus having a private conversation, why do you avoid it?

1204.   Do you think of faith as the absence of doubt?

1205.   Do the last five hundred years of the church sit in judgement over the first fifteen hundred years, or do the first fifteen hundred years of the church sit in judgement over the last five hundred years?

1206.   Can you say more about that?

1207.   Where are the cracks in our culture that God wants you to fill up?

1208.   Does having a fear of God strike you as a reasonable thing?

1209.   What happens inside of you when the questions of life are turned back on you?

1210.   Do you find it invigorating if life is to be found on God’s terms and not yours?

1211.   How do you trust God with your own history of foolishness?

1212.   Do you want your life to be only and everything God wants it to be?

1213.   Are you aware that God knows all things and you don’t?

1214.   What do you think of that whole idea that money can’t buy happiness?

1215.   Is it really that we fear becoming unpopular?

1216.   What is a man to do if everything about Christ is true?

1217.   How much of us is bound up in the decision to not search for the Truth?

1218.   Do you question your culture as much as you question faith?

1219.   If God has a road for you to travel in life, do you imagine that some other road would be a better path for you?

1220.   Are you known to sit with a question, or to immediately attempt to answer it?

1221.   Can our search for Truth be pure...  unaffected by a desired outcome?

1222.   Ultimately, are you isolated in the world because of others or because of you?

1223.   I poop, therefore I am?.......

1224.   Is it possible to remain true to yourself if, having been made aware of the appearance of Christ in the world, you choose to not investigate its importance?

1225.   How can there be Brahms and no God?

1226.   How can it be that your belief, or your unbelief, is a settled matter?

1227.   What more are you open to?

1228.   What’s at the very center of you that you don’t want anyone to find out about?

1229.   So, at the Judgement, are you going to say to God, “I’m sorry, Lord, but I just didn’t have enough time in retirement to seek the Truth of things.”?

1230.   Do you think Truth is accessible across the range of human intellect?

1231.   Have you ever considered stepping out of your guarded self?

1232.   Is it children who teach us the truth of things?

1233.   Are you always reminding God what’s not possible?

1234.   If hope sustains you in times of need, is the larger question whether it sustains you in times of abundance?

1235.   Are you asking God to be faithful to you, even as you seek to be faithful to Him?

1236.   Is it any wonder that the largest truths would be the targets of greatest corruption?

1237.   Are the stakes higher for someone who doesn’t believe?

1238.   When I pray for you, is that not the two of us coming before the transcendent?

1239.   What is human flourishing, and how is it achieved?

1240.   How to be with a dying person?

1241.   Will you consider these things before I go?...     before you go?

1242.   How to get inside of life?

1243.   What if this is about Christ before it is about Christianity?

1244.   How exactly are you going to come up with a life that rivals what God intends to do through you?

1245.   Are you massively dishonest with yourself?

1246.   What do you do if you’re living the dream and the dream disappoints?

1247.   What true friendship is not an ongoing investment?

1248.   If someone is searching for hope, are you able to show the way?

1249.   Wouldn’t it be exciting to find that your life tipped on the edge of a Truth you may or may not consider?

1250.   Do you use the scandals in the Church to shield yourself from the call of Christ on your own life?

1251.   Do you want what is true about a saint to be true about your life?

1252.   Does it matter who says it doesn’t matter?

1253.   Is a sunset ever beautiful for its own sake, or only as we understand its evolutionary utility?

1254.   If either the successor of Peter is in charge, or you are in charge, is that a lot of pressure?

1255.   Do you co-opt elements of Catholicism while refusing to enter it?

1256.   Does the unmasking of the world begin simply with the unmasking of one’s own heart?

1257.   What is the role of deflection in a search for Truth?

1258.   Do you use argument to get at the Truth or to avoid it?

1259.   Have you considered exploring beauty to find your way to God?

1260.   If Christ is the magnet of Truth, why would one resist being drawn to him?

1261.   Speaking as one human being to another, did you want to miss something?

1262.   If a man discovers the Truth of things, might he also discover more about himself than he wants to know?

1263.   Do we believe politics can accomplish what it’s incapable of?

1264.   Why should I believe you if you say God is whatever I want God to be?

1265.   Is there a gift in a lost past?

1266.   Do you think a son should be raised differently than a daughter?

1267.   Where are we when everything becomes preference?

1268.   Why stay put on a stepping-stone?

1269.   What is our attraction to self-managed spirituality?

1270.   Is it right because it’s desired?

1271.   Are you drawing on internal resources incapable of sustaining you?

1272.   If you don’t come to terms with yourself, will you disappear into despair?

1273.   O God, will I spend my life for me or for thee?

1274.   Is nothing beyond examination in this life, including your own heart?

1275.   Are we all looking for permission to express something of our lower nature?

1276.   Is it possible that Jesus can solve the central problem of the human heart?

1277.   Do you keep discussion on a national level so you don’t have to deal with life on a personal level?

1278.   How can we hope for systemic humility and change without personal humility and change?

1279.   Is the solution found in power?

1280.   What would simple living look like for you?

1281.   If you’re unwilling to address your broken personal relationships, why should I care what you have to say about national reform?

1282.   Should we allow a man’s personal choices to affect our view of his public service?

1283.   Do you think it’s possible that the transcendent never violates what is True?

1284.   Do you think your greatest need is larger than God’s ability to meet it?

1285.   How to argue, with respect?

1286.   Does the United States presume upon its durability as a democratic republic?

1287.   Is it your nature to find fault in others?

1288.   If God is transcendent, is it odd that one might have an inexplicable experience of God?

1289.   Isn’t that what we all want, to Rest In Peace?

1290.   Is it possible to be bigoted toward the truth of what is?

1291.   Has disagreement become intolerance?

1292.   Isn’t it wonderfully unnerving that, in terms of human nature, I know everything about you?

1293.   Isn’t it great when a broken relationship is the other person’s fault, so it’s not on you to initiate the reconciliation?

1294.   What if God’s call on your life remains, apart from your desire that it would not?

1295.   When I die at some point, who will continue to get on your case about this stuff?

1296.   Do you think you and I will become tools of the state, parroting slogans and lies to maintain acceptable reputations?

1297.   Are you going to be one of the Devil’s great disappointments?

1298.   Are you a man of unreasonable fears?

1299.   If faith does not require certainty is it therefore blind?

1300.   Can one be matured by suffering without being broken by it?

1301.   Are you afraid to press Jesus to the very end of who he claims to be?

1302.   Do you suppose the caterpillar knows how far it is across the road when he starts out?

1303.   What if yours is a misplaced hope?

1304.   In what cases when we can, should we not?

1305.   Do you click and sin?

1306.   If you’ve never been stupid, why would you start now?

1307.   Can you fight armies with ideologies, but not vice versa?

1308.   Is morality ultimately based either on a revelation of God or on majority opinion?

1309.   What are moral considerations if not moral concerns?

1310.   Do legitimate social concerns ever deflect us from considering deeper underlying issues?

1311.   How much moral corruption will we allow in the life of a historical figure before we remove any tribute to that person in the public square?

1312.   Isn’t it perfectly unsettling that Jesus Christ came into the world?

1313.   What if Truth presses in and, out of love, refuses to give up on you?

1314.   What is the effect if revelation, by way of history, penetrates philosophy in the person of Christ?

1315.   Do we press for systemic change while avoiding personal change?

1316.   If you “left the faith” at some point, do you see any possible avenue back?

1317.   What are your thoughts on Islam and democracy?

1318.   What do we do with Gandhi and with Jesus if they disagree?

1319.   Why not run to God rather than away from God?

1320.   Why should we move away from the challenges rather than toward them?

1321.   In this era of exposing the lives of historical figures, do you want your own life to be exposed as well?

1322.   Is God calling you to change a corrupt Church from within?

1323.   Is the greatest good found in what I desire to be so?

1324.   Is it true for bachelors that most of life is theoretical (Kant)?

1325.   Why live a life that’s not oriented toward eternity?

1326.   Wouldn’t that be something if God used even your failures to further his purposes in the world?

1327.   You’ve exhausted all avenues to God?  What does that even mean?

1328.   Do you intend your questions about God to get you only to a place of avoidance of God?

1329.   If we have only an evolutionary ethic, are we stuck with majority morality?

1330.   Does Protestantism repeatedly place you in a position of needing to justify where you are?

1331.   Should I be offended that you find the claims of Christ offensive?

1332.   How does being relate to doing?

1333.   Is it true that democracy is sustained by nothing more than majority opinion?

1334.   Are you dying?

1335.   How can Jesus’ offer of life to us be reasonably ignored?

1336.   What’s your day about, and is it enough?

1337.   Do you have only political hope in this world?

1338.   Are the fundamentals of law less important than laws themselves?

1339.   Do you think evil is real?

1340.   What do you have to lose, you’re going to be dead soon anyway?

1341.   What if this is first about your sins before it’s about the sins of the world?

1342.   Why do you suppose when Jesus says “love your neighbor”, we agree, but when Jesus asks, “Who do you say that I am?”, we balk?

1343.   How badly do you want to separate Jesus’ sayings from his person?

1344.   Will you cling to your safe, sentimental Jesus for the rest of your life?

1345.   Why do you suppose we like some of the things that Jesus said, but otherwise do our best to avoid him?

1346.   Is it Jesus who bothers us in the deepest and best sense?

1347.   Is autonomy from God your greatest desire?

1348.   Did you know that an honest and thorough dismissal of Jesus stands between you and the realization of what you hoped life would be?

1349.   Isn’t it fascinating how we avoid Jesus at all cost?  And you will too, right?

1350.   What if it turns out that I was wrong about you, and that you actually are a fool?

1351.   What if I’m not financially or emotionally capable of having a child right now, and later I won’t be financially or emotionally capable of caring for an aging parent right now?

1352.   What will you do if there are access roads back to God that are unlike the ones you traveled previously?

1353.   Isn’t it interesting that we have to live our lives in the tension of it possibly being so?

1354.   In calling you by name, is Jesus coming directly at you with the very hardest and the very best love?

1355.   Are laws based on facts or beliefs?

1356.   What do you do when it feels like God is on vacation from being God?

1357.   What do we do if the whole thing about Jesus is true?

1358.   Isn’t it wonderful how a family...    a company...    a city...    a country goes on without you when you depart?

1359.   Whatever happened to follow-up questions?

1360.   Have you considered that now is the perfect time to give your life to God?

1361.   Are you on a collision course with Jesus Christ, the great lover of your soul?

1362.   What part of you does not want it to be True?

1363.   What if even God wants you to have integrity in your decision about God?

1364.   Have you ever thought of Jesus as someone who needs to be properly dismissed?

1365.   What if the Gospel message is both troubling and transformative?

1366.   Where have all the heresies gone?

1367.   What goes on in the waiting for God to do something?

1368.   If you’re a soulless, survival-of-the-fittest biped, why be concerned with your legacy?

1369.   Have you ever had a difficult situation provoke you out of your fears?

1370.   Is your life refining you into a focus?

1371.   Do you, or do you think you will, find humor in your own aging?

1372.   Do you think laughter comes up out of our happiness, or out of our joy?

1373.   Do you think hospitality for hire is a distortion of the gift?

1374.   Are you living a thin or a thick life?

1375.   Must what science allows us to do be allowable?

1376.   What does flourishing mean in the third third of life?

1377.   Did the Enlightenment usher in a particular form of darkness?

1378.   Is agnosticism the religious safe space of our time?

1379.   What if the resurrection of Jesus happened in history like you happened?

1380.   What’s life about?  Can you tell me?

1381.   If we judge men, should God not judge men?

1382.   Did you know that Catholicism, properly understood, is subversive?

1383.   What do we do with men if they are no longer needed for provision, protection, and procreation?

1384.   Isn’t it interesting, and potentially troubling, that Jesus is a historical figure and not a mythical figure?

1385.   If the Truth takes you where you don’t want to go, will you still go there?

1386.   In light of their faults, whose accomplishments should still be recognized?

1387.   Are you going to look into the possibility that God is not done with you yet?

1388.   Are we affirming each other to death?

1389.   Do you minimize, in modesty, the gifts that God has given you?

1390.   Should the quote now be, “Ask not what you can do for your country — ask what your country can do for you”...     ?

1391.   When, if ever, should my preferences determine your fate?

1392.   How to live in the present and not the future?

1393.   Are you both benefiting from, and recovering from, how you were raised?

1394.   By listening do you earn the right to be heard?

1395.   Is the only foolish question the unasked one?

1396.   How do you see the line between faith and foolishness?

1397.   Do you think God can be God of your present circumstances?

1398.   Can any democracy survive Nietzsche’s perspectivism?

1399.   Why would you come to conclusions about Jesus by listening to others when you could look into it on your own?

1400.   Toward what is the centripetal force of our culture pulling you?

1401.   Have you experienced, or seen in another, the depression that may follow a major achievement?

1402.   How would our world be different if people didn’t ask questions just so they could talk about themselves?

1403.   Is inconvenience one of the last remaining sins of our culture?

1404.   Does desire trump external reference?

1405.   If your search for ethical reference takes you on a path toward God, will you permit yourself to move in that direction?

1406.   Should the power located in the middle of life be allowed to extinguish life at its beginnings and endings?

1407.   How do you live the life that’s right in front of you?

1408.   Do you desire truth more than freedom?

1409.   Is human freedom more important than the truth of things?

1410.   Do you view your past primarily as that which you’ve learned from or as that which you regret?

1411.   Will you allow yourself the journey to the center of your own heart?

1412.   What would it take for you to die a man of despair?

1413.   Do you think we are quick to justify ourselves because, deep down, we know we need to be justified?

1414.   If you and I are simply drawing lines through different points on a continuum, then when is either of us right or wrong?

1415.   Did you know that when you know enough to know you know nothing you know something?

1416.   How will you spend your day if God is dead?

1417.   If we’re chasing money, do we end up talking about just stupid stuff?

1418.   How to keep from despairing?

1419.   Are you both hopeless and yet open to hope?

1420.   Is life cheap in a video game world?

1421.   If I’m a Christian, why should I expect my country to endorse what I believe?

1422.   How much honesty can your friendships endure?

1423.   Are you too old to be afraid any longer?

1424.   Can political solutions address philosophical problems?

1425.   What did you desire more, the academic degree, or the ideas that the pursuit of the degree exposed you to?

1426.   Is it true that, as a human being, you have the freedom to ask the impermissible questions?

1427.   Do you ruthlessly guard your own heart so the Truth doesn’t get too close to it?

1428.   What is it to attempt an (ongoing) impersonal examination of faith and fail?

1429.   Why would the negligence to investigate its importance diminish the significance of Christ’s appearance in the world?

1430.   Do you know any “success” stories of people who got a late start in life?

1431.   What if I just need to be patient, and trust God a little bit more?

1432.   Who decides when one becomes a non-person?

1433.   How do you think about hope when it seems to have slipped away?

1434.   How did majority opinion become the measure of things?

1435.   Does morality change with polling numbers?

1436.   Will we dismiss any sense of urgency regarding the afterlife if in fact we can’t be sure about it?

1437.   Why should people vote for something they believe in when they don’t believe in it?

1438.   Are all of the world’s problems located outside of John Doe? If not, which problems are located inside of John Doe?

1439.   On what grounds would you oppose or support your mother being euthanized?

1440.   If he’s a zeitgeist guy, what do you expect him to say?

1441.   In your search for truth will you travel down life-giving roads that are socially suspect?

1442.   If the Gospels offer an invitation to life, will you stop at nothing to accept it?

1443.   Do you escape to the level of social justice awareness by bypassing the deeper level of your own personal brokenness?

1444.   Are you getting inside the thinking of this culture?

1445.   If bad news is our food, do we become what we eat?

1446.   Is freedom ordered by God, or God ordered by freedom?

1447.   How much of life is reasonably about restraint?

1448.   What if God is a historical rather than imagined reality?

1449.   Is it wishful thinking, not that God exists, but that he doesn’t?

1450.   Is negativity your delivery system?

1451.   Is every sexual lifestyle choice to be celebrated?

1452.   Should we consider Jesus more fully, if only for the energy we expend in eluding him?

1453.   If you had a religious life in your youth, what are the chances of a resurgence?

1454.   Do you agree with the idea that, as families go, so go communities...   as communities go, so go nations...   and as nations go, so goes the world?

1455.   Are you both afraid of, and drawn to, a deeper level of truth-seeking?

1456.   Is that what you and I are going to talk about when we get older...   golf, restaurants, and home renovations?

1457.   What have you learned about persevering in a situation you don’t want to be in?

1458.   Have you ever been distracted while reading a book about distraction?

1459.   If the Truth is covered by the debris of human corruption, will you dig for it?

1460.   Could this be about getting at, and releasing hope at, the center of things?

1461.   Are we now about change for the sake of change?

1462.   Why should Jesus leave your heart untouched?

1463.   Are we, at the same time, communicating to boys and men how uncommitted they are and how unnecessary they are?

1464.   Have you faced Jesus squarely, or are you on the run from authentic engagement?

1465.   What if the deal is that, if you’re not dealing with Jesus, you’re not dealing?

1466.   How is it not an urgent matter to assume there is nothing urgent about this?

1467.   Did you know you can say a lot in a little, and a little in a lot?

1468.   Why would I be interested in your politics when it tells me very little about you?

1469.   When will we lose the fear of talking about things we don’t understand?

1470.   Why would a pure materialist be concerned with the survival of our species?

1471.   Do you have better things to do than talk about aging and regret?

1472.   How will you respond if the large, loving, objective realities of God continue to press in on your private, personalized understandings of your own life?

1473.   What if losing your life for Jesus’ sake is the only thing that makes sense?

1474.   What are your experiences of loss?

1475.   What observations have you made about the amount of work that goes into making something look effortless?

1476.   If universal salvation is not a certainty, should you reconsider the urgency of the matter?

1477.   Do you desire a reality larger than the one you create for yourself?

1478.   If you have been gifted with a mind to probe the truth of things, have you, until now, abdicated your responsibility to do so?

1479.   What are the modern day challenges of coaching athletics?

1480.   Does the Devil shield our eyes with one hand, while pulling our lives past us with the other?

1481.   If you were put in charge of deceiving yourself, what would be your strategy?

1482.   What have you learned over the years about giving constructive criticism?

1483.   Have technological advances not only left human nature unchanged, but more rawly exposed?

1484.   If people have been responding to “that something” about Jesus for two thousand years, why would they stop now?

1485.   How much secrecy is in your life?

1486.   Do you think God likes to be given the opportunity to be God in our lives?

1487.   Do we probe just the thin layers of human nature exposed by social justice concerns, and not the thick layers of human nature that protect our fiercely guarded heart?

1488.   How does Universalism deal with the problem of Jesus?

1489.   Can you die a man of integrity if you have not searched for the truth of things?

1490.   What kind of spiritual trouble does God want to cause through you?

1491.   What’s your availability to God?

1492.   Rather than some vague, malleable concept of God, isn’t it great that Jesus appears as an unavoidable historical figure to press against?

1493.   Are we unable to rid ourselves of an eternal impulse?

1494.   Are you hiding within the raw materials of your brokenness that God wants to use to create something marvelous?

1495.   Do you know it not to be urgent?

1496.   Why does life feel heavier at 3am than at 3pm?

1497.   Are you an unloving parent if you’ve ever made your child wait for something?

1498.   Have you weaponized your intellect?

1499.   What would it look like to trust God too much?

1500.   What would a full release of your life look like?

1501.   Are you praying about God’s purposes for you for the rest of your life?

1502.   What will be your parting gifts to your friends?

1503.   How does Humanitarianism understand the Cross?

1504.   Do you know of any other religious figure whose appearance in history split the calendar?

1505.   Have you considered that God can inhabit your weaknesses with his strength?

1506.   What are the possibilities if you replace a God-centered universe with a Man-centered universe?

1507.   When and how will we know if we have acquired wisdom?

1508.   Is our society appealing to a moral consensus that no longer exists?

1509.   Is there a “best part” to your serious illness?

1510.   If you’re no longer stuck with God, are you just stuck with yourself?

1511.   Are the bad decisions you’ve made in life larger than God?

1512.   What should you do when you experience what feels like only the silence and inactivity of God?

1513.   What, if any, relationship is there between discouragement and unbelief?

1514.   Is embracing only your autonomous self worth it?

1515.   Where is life to be found in your current circumstances?

1516.   Might God want you to take a risk in this situation?

1517.   Is your fear of the Gospel the fear that it’s true?

1518.   Whatever you may think of hell, are not the Gospels shot through with urgency?

1519.   If Jesus Christ is the strong medicine for what ails you, will you receive him?

1520.   Is God calling you to be part of the big push to the end of days?

1521.   Do you expect the world to live Christianly?

1522.   How do you think about retirement in terms of God’s activity in your life?

1523.   Does loving and respecting your elders mean never telling them something about their behavior that they may find difficult to hear?

1524.   How hard do you work to protect yourself from knowledge about yourself?

1525.   How can you see the outside of your house when you never leave the inside?

1526.   Is it the easy thing to do to not listen?

1527.   Do they smell like problems that politics can’t fix?

1528.   Is there anyone more difficult to be around than the person who has no doubts?

1529.   Isn’t it more interesting to inquire what people are thinking, rather than telling them what they should be thinking?

1530.   In your search for truth will you drive through the heart of things rather than detour around it?

1531.   If God offers you a larger life on God’s terms, will you settle for a smaller life on your terms?

1532.   Is there a better way to refine a question than to run it through the collective wisdom of those in the room?

1533.   Has humility played any role in the development of your intellectual life?

1534.   What if God has other plans for your retirement?

1535.   Is it a cowardly act to quickly dismiss another’s perspective?

1536.   Why not exhaust the possibility that Jesus is the Christ, the beginning and end of all things?

1537.   How many corrupt churches will we go through before we admit that corruption lies within us as well?

1538.   Do you make others feel like they have nothing of value to contribute?

1539.   What if true purpose comes from without and not from within?

1540.   Is it clarifying that, in the end, one either follows or denies Christ?

1541.   Where are the empty places in your life?

1542.   What, if any, human questions remain untouched by technology?

1543.   Does all science operate on the assumption of order?

1544.   In the best sense, what are you stuck with in life?

1545.   How much are we asking, that order would emerge from chaos?

1546.   Isn’t it interesting that you can’t escape the possibility that God is at work in you?

1547.   When you have so much to bring to the table in service to God, why would you bring so little or even nothing at all?

1548.   Will you help me locate faith at the intersection of mind and heart?

1549.   If science has supplanted God, what do you do with your considerations in the night?

1550.   Will I remain a farmer, putting seed in the ground year after year after year, only to see nothing grow?

1551.   What do I do, and what does God do?

1552.   In the realm of faith in God, would you agree with Pascal that, “The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”…?

1553.   Will God help you go from where you are, rather than from where you wish you were?

1554.   In comparison to those who would preserve the Faith, does the Devil exercise a special hatred toward those who would extend it?

1555.   Must an Oxford Don and an Oxford custodian approach faith differently?

1556.   Are you spending lots of time on home renovations and no time on spiritual renovations?

1557.   Until you have finally pushed against the Son of God, how can it be that you have lived life fully?

1558.   Has technology ushered in the age of inhuman communication?

1559.   Who says that all of our personal belief systems are equally valid?

1560.   I mean, who wants to encounter a truth that you’ve spent your whole life trying to avoid?

1561.   What will you do if a transcendent reality outside of you is not a power play against you, but an invitation to you to come and see?

1562.   What if despair need not be your final decision?

1563.   Where did the order come from that mathematics describes?

1564.   What if God’s desire to communicate with you must be met with your desire to receive?

1565.   Is it possible that your life is the only book on human nature that you need to read?

1566.   Is humility the greatest intellectual virtue?

1567.   Do you attend a church that tells you everything you want to hear?

1568.   What if all of spiritual reality is about God taking the initiative to find you, rather than you trying to find God?  Will you allow yourself to be found?

1569.   Do you think it’s important to have at least one friend who annoys you about your spiritual life?

1570.   Do you need something to believe in that’s actually true?

1571.   Are you asking as many questions of science as you are of religion?

1572.   Isn’t it invigorating though, the prospect of being wrong about it all?

1573.   Do you think the age at which one should be euthanized should be set by the state, just as the state sets the age at which one can drive or drink?

1574.   Who decides when a belief has changed enough that we should alter the laws that reference it?

1575.   Do you live in an area with a high concentration of normal people?

1576.   Is it reasonable to show compassion?

1577.   Is it the role of a lawyer to achieve an acquittal of someone who may in fact be guilty, or a conviction of someone who may in fact be innocent?

1578.   So, are you going to think for yourself, or have others think for you?

1579.   What particular energy does it require to sustain a decision against faith?

1580.   How to live authentically within the possibility that it may be so?

1581.   Can despair be a gift if it drives you into the arms of God?

1582.   What, if anything, do you think is lost in a texting conversation?

1583.   At the risk of losing a friendship that you and I may not have just yet, would you consider these questions?

1584.   Is your battle against faith pitched against straw men or real men?

1585.   What if the urgency regarding eternal things is not self-generated, but comes from without?

1586.   If God is calling you, is it going to voicemail?

1587.   What interpretive gymnastics must we perform to get the Gospels to not say what they seem to clearly say?

1588.   And if the whole thing about Jesus is true, how does it not completely and marvelously rearrange all of one’s life?

1589.   If you too commit to a cause that is demonically opposed, how do you think you will fare?

1590.   How should we think about training that a coach views as essential, but which the athlete sees as excessive?

1591.   Do you fear that the bending may become a breaking at some point?

1592.   How many restrictions will you place on God today?

1593.   Isn’t it interesting that Jesus never deflected worship?

1594.   Do you honor God with your choices, even when no one is watching?

1595.   What would life be like if God always answered our prayers immediately, and precisely as requested?

1596.   That thing that goes on inside of you when you consider Jesus...    it’s interesting, isn’t it?

1597.   Have you added to your list that you need to make a list?

1598.   Is the long flatness of your life killing you?

1599.   Jesus said that if you follow him the world will hate you.  What did he mean?

1600.   Is to evade, to choose?

1601.   What might be a holy recklessness?

1602.   Do you have infinite longings that your finite pursuits have not satisfied?

1603.   Why should you consider the mercy of God if you have no need for it?

1604.   Does modern morality consist of the expressed desire of any majority presence?

1605.   Have you settled your business with Jesus yet?

1606.   Why would you want to enter the Church in easy, comfortable times?

1607.   Have you assigned Jesus to his proper place in history?

1608.   Are you courageous enough, or foolish enough, to turn your agnosticism into a comprehensive rejection?

1609.   Have you considered that the Gospel is full of love and healing and fire?

1610.   If you’re planning to leave this life as a deeply depressed person anyway, why not go out reading the Gospels?

1611.   If you were going to open yourself up to God today, what would that look like?

1612.   What true adventures of faith don’t have some foolishness mixed in?

1613.   Does a culture have any use for a church that conforms itself to that culture’s desires?

1614.   Do you think God’s grace takes into account and supersedes all the bone-headed decisions we’ve made in our lives?

1615.   What if it’s true, and has only been left unexamined?

1616.   Would it surprise you to hear that my experience of being a Catholic has been one of complete liberation?

1617.   If you haven’t exhausted the search, where will you look next?

1618.   What if it’s not your reputation that’s at stake, but rather the truth itself?

1619.   If science has many questions for religion, what questions does religion have for science?

1620.   Could it be a trap in a self-worshiping culture to think that science has all the answers?

1621.   If I am a believer and you are not, do the questions themselves remain?

1622.   What do you allow yourself to contemplate in silence and aloneness?

1623.   Has the belief that “all religions teach the same thing” become an unchallenged truism?

1624.   What may be there to see, but we desire that it remains unseen?

1625.   In this busy, distracted world isn’t it amazing that anyone would have a thought of us?

1626.   Should I listen to Luther instead of to those who were disciples of the Disciples?

1627.   Are you your own pope?

1628.   How much stress in life is related to self-protection?

1629.   But what if these are spiritual problems before they’re political problems?

1630.   If it’s possible, how do you love someone you don’t like?

1631.   Are you willing to engage a reckless and liberating hope?

1632.   Have you noticed that talk of God can be free-ranging and recreational, while talk of Jesus is locational and disruptive?

1633.   But what should we do if history interferes with philosophy?

1634.   How do you build a systematic theology on occasional letters?

1635.   Have you solved the problem of Jesus?

1636.   If Jesus is not the Christ, then you can just get on with your life, right?

1637.   Do you expect to find meaning apart from the truth of things?

1638.   Does it feel to you like it’s all starting to get away from us?

1639.   Is yours an advertised piety?

1640.   How secure is any belief or practice that is tethered only to itself?

1641.   How does your own faith survive you being a counselor?

1642.   Why are the sins of men only as serious as we say, and not as serious as God says?

1643.   What’s the difference between “This is true.” and “What if this is true?”...?

1644.   Would you like to go back and do it all over again?

1645.   In your life, what questions remain to be asked?

1646.   Does democracy survive from the ground up or the top down?

1647.   Do we imagine that ideological encroachment is always obvious?

1648.   Did you know that when an explosion occurs off to your right, you should look to your left?

1649.   How hard do you work to not place yourself in a vulnerable position before God?

1650.   How little do you actually know about your friends?

1651.   When can a man not have what he wants?

1652.   If God gives us everything we want, will it destroy us?

1653.   Is corruption of essence a given with corruption of persons and practices?

1654.   What might be the “alignment effect” of Truth?

1655.   Do we now go back to the good old days, before Donald Trump, when all we hated was our own meaningless lives?

1656.   Can a nation be virtuous if its citizens are not?

1657.   Is joy a chemical reaction?

1658.   Must the gap between reason and faith necessarily remain?

1659.   Why preserve the earth if it has only a material origin?

1660.   Is science opening up a Pandora’s box whose contents even the most progressive among us fear?

1661.   Has God ever shaped your life through a dead-end job?

1662.   When should one decline to do what one is inclined to do?

1663.   Is retributive justice archaic at best, and barbaric at worst?

1664.   Are you on a hamster wheel of distraction?

1665.   Are there questions that science has not answered for you?

1666.   Do you trust in your wife’s love for you, with no proof of it?

1667.   How could the love of God introduce trials into our lives?

1668.   Why would a great mind have room in his heart for God?

1669.   Should I be surprised that God, having stirred my mind, would also move my heart?

1670.   Why trust in that moment when it is most difficult to trust?

1671.   So you will look into it?

1672.   Are you a scientist who finds science’s explanations of origins inadequate?

1673.   Is revelation a problem for philosophy?

1674.   Is our culture moving toward controlled thought as proper thought?

1675.   What do you suppose would happen if God gave us everything we wanted?

1676.   Is it the great sin of our age to be unpopular?

1677.   Why should there be order rather than disorder?

1678.   Why should ideas and beliefs not compete with each other in good faith?

1679.   Might we be candid and winsome in our disagreements?

1680.   Just because we may not have the answer, should we not ask the question?

1681.   Are there good things that deflect us from better things?

1682.  Why would we not seek the Truth with eagerness late in life, unless there is something in us fundamentally set against it?

1683.   If everyone’s a singer-songwriter now, who’s going to sit in the audience?

1684.   When did Protestantism become the default Christian position?

1685.   How much effort do we put into avoiding information that is loose in the world?

1686.   Do you think it’s true that the less I know about a truth claim, the less responsible I am to respond to it?

1687.   Do you think there is a spiritual access portal...  a point of entry into each person’s life?

1688.   How do you live with the fact that you can’t not have the feelings that you have?

1689.   Would you ever live your faith at the expense of your popularity?

1690.   Do we recognize in the religion of humanitarianism the deceitfulness of sentimentality?

1691.   If you are to be a grain of wheat that falls into the earth and dies (John 12), what do you imagine that death might look like for you?

1692.   What are the legal principles by which we permit same-sex marriage but prohibit polygamous marriage?

1693.   What have you got to lose if you’re going to die anyway?

1694.   Is the degree of one’s cultural popularity inversely proportional to the degree of one’s faithfulness to Jesus Christ?

1695.   Is coming to Christ first a spiritual transaction before it is a social transaction?

1696.   If you’re a writer, how do you think about what you wrote at the time?

1697.   Does political conversation keep life at arm’s length for you?

1698.   What if you’re missing something?  You don’t want to miss something, do you?

1699.   Alongside your political work, have you done any internal work?

1700.   Are you seeking every possible argument against it, that you yourself need not consider the claims of Christ?

1701.   Is it possible that, if a heart remains unmoved by the Gospel, it is lost?

1702.   Do you love at cost?

1703.   If it’s not in a straight line, how do we think about personal growth as a trend?

1704.   Did you know that when God calls you he gathers up all that you are, and nothing is lost?

1705.   At some point, does entering the Catholic Church become a matter of obedience and not preference?

1706.   Was Jesus opposed, in part, because he healed people, or because he claimed to heal people and failed?

1707.   How do you think about the impact of reading even if one retains few specifics of what has been read?

1708.   What if Jesus first presents us with a historical problem before he challenges us with a religious question?

1709.   Do you think I follow Christ because it makes me feel good?

1710.   Have you developed the patience necessary to let a question hang in the air?

1711.   Do you purposefully avoid detours around difficult lessons?

1712.   Have you experienced the spiritual torque produced by the Cross?

1713.   If this world has only a material explanation, what good is your legacy?

1714.   Do you think verbal communication can make a comeback?

1715.   Are you neglecting now what you imagine will come more easily in the future?

1716.   Is part of your frustration that you are trying to assemble a puzzle when God has not yet given you all of the pieces?

1717.   Does the fact of Christ not set up its own proper tension?

1718.   Is it not the greatest difficulty to unknow what you have come to know?

1719.   Isn’t it great when knowledge is something you can’t get away from?

1720.   When you and I have nothing further to discuss, do we just wish each other well?

1721.   Should statues of a great national figure come down if we discover he was a serial adulterer?

1722.   Is it the love of God that faith be an intellectual difficulty, or rather a matter of the heart, that all might enter if they will?

1723.   Why would you give your life to a secondary, tertiary, or even quaternary cause?

1724.   Do you see that the disturbance is not in its certainty, but in its possibility?

1725.   Isn’t it invigorating to consider that you may be making decisions of eternal consequence?

1726.   Would people say that you have a redemptive effect on your environment?

1727.   How would you describe in a person that intangible quality of normalcy?

1728.   Is the only purpose of retributive justice to discourage a repeat offense?

1729.   Are you certain that this is not about supernatural realities, cosmic battles, and the destination of your soul?

1730.   Is the Cross where the hurt and the healing occur?

1731.   What kind of people do you like to be around?

1732.   Has Jesus placed you in a loving tension between competing decisions?

1733.   Is yours a privatized religion?

1734.   Is our disagreement a sign of mutual disrespect?

1735.   Is that what you think I think?

1736.   Are today’s miracles sufficient for today?

1737.   Is the Twittersphere just waiting to hear how offended I am?

1738.   Isn’t it interesting that, even if we rid ourselves of the questioner, the questions themselves remain?

1739.   Over the last two thousand years, why would countless intelligent people...  maybe even some as smart as you...  decide to put their trust in Christ?

1740.   Have you asked God to be the God of his promises?

1741.   Might God use financial challenges as a tool to shape your life?

1742.   Is Jesus Christ the wonderful problem with which all men must cope?

1743.   Do you want to live among those who are beginning their engagement with life, or among those who are retiring from it?

1744.   Is it a mark of the Church’s divinity that it is attacked from without and from within?

1745.   When are you going to do your own homework?

1746.   Are you striding in front of Christ in defiance, walking beside him in presumption, or following close behind him that he might lead you in his will?

1747.   If we have a close friend or family member who is a recovering alcoholic, how should we think about drinking at all?

1748.   Why would you call God a liar by saying you are too far gone to be saved?

1749.   Is it the love and wisdom of God that Truth be found at the confluence of mind and heart?

1750.   Do you desire God’s fullness for you, whatever its shape?

1751.   Must we pass through insanity to return to sanity?

1752.   Do you have to learn to play the piano, or can you just enjoy listening to someone else play it?

1753.   Is joy the absence of difficulty, or the presence of God?

1754.   Have you considered that the stories in the Gospels seem too real to be fabricated?

1755.   When does the exchange of ideas become the imposition of ideas?

1756.   Are you living a life that requires Jesus to keep his promises?

1757.   Do you hope because you have to hope, or because there is a hope in which to hope?

1758.   What if your life has not been wasted, but has been preparation for this moment?

1759.   Is it the gift of God that our minds cannot fully grasp mystery?

1760.   If there were many mysteries in ancient times, are there not more now?

1761.   Did someone put you in charge of definitive statements about reality?

1762.   Have you considered Christ and his Church as the antidote to modern madness?

1763.   Don’t you wish you could get rid of that lingering moral sense of things?

1764.   How do you think about what is impossible for you, but perhaps possible for God?

1765.   Do you sometimes feel sick in your sin?

1766.   Must a search for Truth inevitability include a wonderful collision with Jesus Christ?

1767.   Are you trying to fill the hole in your life with stuff that can’t fill the hole in your life?

1768.   Why would you stop looking for the truth of things?

1769.   You realize, don’t you, that I ask you only the questions that I ask myself?

1770.   Is retributive justice an unenlightened holdover from the past?

1771.   Are you looking forward to the society-wide explosion of desire-based litigation?

1772.   Why do you flatter yourself to think that God has never had a tougher case than you?

1773.   Is a legal system that utilizes retributive justice an unloving system?

1774.   Do you underestimate the nature of the problem, and the magnitude of the solution?

1775.   Have you considered that Jesus is the great disturber of the peace, that one might find peace?

1776.   You know, don’t you, that Jesus is a problem?

1777.   Have you sold out to proper political, religious, and cultural thinking?

1778.   Is the legal profession also a holy calling that is often corrupted?

1779.   Will you utilize every genetic engineering technology available to maximize your happiness?

1780.   Is your happiness paramount?

1781.   Are comfort and ease a right?

1782.   What if this is about spiritual realities?

1783.   Shall I pray hope and disturbance for you?

1784.   Are you ready for an adventure in the grace and provision of God?

1785.   Do you think accountability increases with awareness?

1786.   Beneath all the anxiety, is it an opportunity to trust God?

1787.   If it does, how does technology distance us from our humanity?

1788.   Rather than being the most enlightened, is it possible that ours is the most deceived generation of all time?

1789.   You want to be empowered for what?….   to serve?

1790.   What’s your prayer life like?

1791.   Is waiting an opportunity?

1792.   What transactions is God working in your heart?

1793.   If we’re called to something higher, why do we settle for something lower?

1794.   Knowing what they have unleashed on the world, will geneticists soon ask religion for help in restraining practices?

1795.   Is the Devil trying to buy you off?

1796.   Now that you’re retired, have you noticed how much time you have to pursue the Truth of things?

1797.   Does God, in his grace, expect only faith from you and not change?

1798.   Are you greatly concerned with earthly things, and little concerned with heavenly things?

1799.   Is it the case that either you will break Jesus, or he will break you, in the best sense?

1800.   How often do you risk, and engage a life-giving moment?

1801.   Have your concerns about the future become a marvelous unknowing?

1802.   If there is the lively mind that is open, and the lively mind that is closed, which is yours?

1803.   Are you ready to be surprised?

1804.   What is your experience of provision in any present moment?

1805.   Do men and women think the same about pleasure without responsibility?

1806.   Deserve?...   What exactly is it that you deserve?

1807.   Can there be any certainty in the moral decisions of this moment if morality is an evolutionary construct and is therefore always evolving?

1808.   Are you in the process of living and dying?

1809.   Do you think it’s possible that God’s calling in your life could be different from the calling you now see for yourself?

1810.   Is part of the Devil’s work to make sure you have no time for contemplation?

1811.   Have you ever made a decision to not worry about something anymore?

1812.   Are you trapped in a prison of your own making?

1813.   Why would you mock God by telling him you’re too far gone?

1814.   So, what’s your poverty?

1815.   Why would one not search down every road, turn over every stone, and knock on every door to find the Truth of things?

1816.   If you have thoughts about it, will you share them with me?

1817.   Are you afraid of the truth about yourself?

1818.   Isn’t that an interesting concept, that our hearts and minds would intentionally obstruct a search for Truth?

1819.   Should a university be a place where discomforting ultimate questions are asked?

1820.   Are you saying we should live life fully, while at the same time trying to avoid the truth about ourselves?

1821.   Do you think growth requires disturbance?

1822.   Instead of feeling like a child of God, do you sometimes feel like one of God’s lab rats?

1823.   Having lost your faith, what avenues of inquiry, if any, do you now consciously avoid?

1824.   Can we speak frankly?

1825.   If God has plans for you, how will you discover what they are?

1826.   Having located yourself as an agnostic, do you just not want to be bothered with any of it anymore?

1827.   Might the Truth reveal itself to you whether you want it to or not?

1828.   Do amoral men have moral concerns?

1829.   Who needs redemption who has no sin?

1830.   How did you finally achieve the proper view of everything?

1831.   Have you experienced the liberation of admitting you’re a sinner?

1832.   Are you aware that Jesus is a big fat historical problem?

1833.   Did you know that the Cross of Christ was dropped into a hole of fire?

1834.   Will your reckless pursuit of the Truth include a complete disregard for your own spiritual safety?

1835.   Do you think birds are afraid of heights?

1836.   If God messes up your life, is it the very best mess?

1837.   Is Truth so malleable that it will take the shape we desire?

1838.   Is it the cowards who label and dismiss?

1839.   Isn’t it wonderful, and isn’t it frightening that all human beings are basically the same?

1840.   Are you afraid to hope for what you picture in your mind?

1841.   What things remain true though we may not want them to be?

1842.   Do you want God to be reducible to your scientific method?

1843.   Isn’t it great to have markers in life, like garbage day?

1844.   Will you be the first person I’ve met who’s not in need of redemption?

1845.   Do personal sins work a kind of societal death in the long run?

1846.   Are you an observer of human insecurities?

1847.   Is it possible that very soon everyone is going to be a bigot about something?

1848.   What is it about music and emotion?

1849.   Is laughter a byproduct of grace?

1850.   Do you have to travel any further than the distance to your own heart to understand the state of the world?

1851.   Would you try to intervene if you lived among an indigenous people who sacrificed their infants to the Gods?

1852.   Is God’s activity in our lives limited only by the constraints we place on him?

1853.   Do you worship the creator or the creation?

1854.   How do you feel about your body turning to soil?

1855.   If I am aware enough of my own need, will I see through your defenses?

1856.   How do you think about spiritual “success” and fruitfulness at this stage of your life?

1857.   What if it’s a matter of obedience and not preference?

1858.   Do you want to live the American Dream before you live your Christian life?

1859.   It wasn’t so hard to give your soul to the Devil now, was it?

1860.   Where would you expect to find corruption, but in the Church?

1861.   Who do men need to be in these days?

1862.   What are the dark moments for you?

1863.   Are you aware that spiritual evasion is child’s play, and that it takes a real man to face his sin?

1864.   Have we considered the truth if we have not considered the one who claims to be the Truth?

1865.   Have you experienced the comedic certainty of God’s provision for you?

1866.   How do we approach critical thinking among the pressures of the prevailing culture?

1867.   Is your life already a proper annoyance, even in the absence of an academic degree?

1868.   Have you cut your search too short too soon?

1869.   How is the genetic engineering of a child not in some way an expression of love?

1870.   Have you ever tried to forget something?

1871.   Are you examining your own life to uncover those things for which Christ died?

1872.   Have you thanked God for the size and shape of your calling?

1873.   Must one be fearless to be fruitful?

1874.   How can one be reasonably indifferent to the claims of Christ?

1875.   When is the natural order breached?

1876.   What are the possibilities and limitations of being friends with the world?

1877.   Are you smart enough to know what you’re not facing within yourself?

1878.   Is waiting on God a passive position?

1879.   Does successful diversification provide an ultimate good?

1880.   Do you think the evolution of morality will eventually make age-based euthanasia desirable?

1881.   How does biology account for consciousness?

1882.   How can you be done looking?

1883.   Will you continue to evade the central questions for the rest of your life?

1884.   Does everyone represent a school of thought?

1885.   How much time have you spent in the School of Prayer?

1886.   What if men spoke freely about the meaning of life?

1887.   Do we fear questions that are open and remain in play our whole lives?

1888.   Has your cavalier indifference toward God become a hardened caricature?

1889.   Why was the tomb empty?

1890.   Isn’t it unnerving, being sure about something you can’t be sure of?

1891.   How can a search for Truth not be ongoing?

1892.   Will you help me find the center of things?

1893.   Are God’s intentions for us greater than our intentions for ourselves?

1894.   Can we separate the consolations of God from a reference to God?

1895.   Aren’t they interesting though, those troubling aspects of unbelief?

1896.   Is the move from AD to CE a subconscious attempt to domesticate Jesus?

1897.   Are closed doors expressions of God’s provision as much as open doors?

1898.   What, if any, mystical experiences do you recall from your childhood?

1899.   Is racial equality a well-intentioned partial good?

1900.   Do you think it’s true that there’s always time for one more thing?

1901.   Are you afraid you’ll look like a fool if you reactivate your religious search?

1902.   How do you cope with 3am?

1903.   How do you think about aging and fear?

1904.   Is wisdom to be found in drawing on the wisdom of others?

1905.   Do you prefer patronizing Jesus to rejecting him outright?

1906.   If Jesus is the white-hot center of Truth, then what does he want from me?

1907.   What if Christianity is marked by dates and occurrences, rather than speculations?

1908.   Do the claims of Christ trap you, in the very best sense?

1909.   Is the modern world committed to not discovering any truth that requires its response?

1910.   Is it possible — a holy release of your fears?

1911.   Wouldn’t it be great if this were all about religious preference, rather than the person of Christ?

1912.   Do you need something to push against?

1913.   Do you ever wonder if you’ve missed something in your conclusions about God?

1914.   Is Jesus the Great Divider of the human heart?

1915.   Right after you say “anything goes”, do you say, “but… wait”…?

1916.   Are you settled in your settled ways?

1917.   Are you going to go to your death not having looked any further?

1918.   Eventually, do you think our efforts to forge realities from unrealities will be naturally undermined?

1919.   What’s the future of brick and mortar?

1920.   What if all you have to study is yourself?

1921.   Is your ministry all fruitfulness and victory, or is that just what we read in your newsletters?

1922.   In your search for Truth are you trying to circumvent an immovable object?

1923.   You remember what Jesus said about leading little children astray, right?

1924.   Is it possible your kids might someday express regret that you didn’t speak to them openly about Jesus?

1925.   Is our avoidance of Jesus directly proportional to our measure of him?

1926.   Do you need to go down to go up?

1927.   Do you suppose God’s intrusions into your life are an act of love?

1928.   Does it feel like Jesus is sleeping through your crisis?

1929.   Are you losing your need to be important?

1930.   Don’t you hate it when you know God is calling you to something late in life?

1931.   Do you believe God can provide for you ex nihilo?

1932.   Do you know the difference between expressing an opinion and having a conversation?

1933.   Where will you find hope independent of God’s prescription for it?

1934.   Have you considered the tyranny of a fixed conclusion?

1935.   Is your religious unbelief open to further investigation, or is it a closed topic?

1936.   Did you sell that five thousand dollar guitar you bought just a couple years ago because it didn’t deliver the happiness you expected?

1937.   Are spiritual realities your heart’s desire?

1938.   How badly do you not want to be hated by the world?

1939.   Is your life all about temporal things?

1940.   How does working for social change have meaning if there is no meaning?

1941.   Do you hope that your death is the end of you?

1942.   Do you ask questions just so you can express your opinion?

1943.   “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

1944.   If you are referencing God for social change, are you also referencing God for personal change?

1945.   If I know a lot about myself do I know a lot about you?

1946.   Do you err on the side of trusting people?

1947.   Have you been placed in scenarios in which to trust God?

1948.   Are disappointments the comedy of God?

1949.   How much enjoyment should you remove from your life for health reasons?

1950.   Why crucify Jesus Christ if he was a great humanitarian?

1951.   Are you susceptible to a religious viewpoint, or were you vaccinated against it early in life?

1952.   Are you fully committed to being unhappy?

1953.   How to live an unanxious life?

1954.   Might one move from declarative to inquisitive?

1955.   How can there be modern slavery among those of the same race?

1956.   Is tribal violence akin to racial violence?

1957.   Have you moved from the bondage of certainty to the liberation of persuasion?

1958.   Now that I have it, why doesn’t it satisfy?

1959.   If we pray for wisdom, should we be surprised to receive it?

1960.   What is it to be animated by the redemptive power of God?

1961.   What goes on inside of you when you consider asking, “What would you have me do, Lord?”

1962.   Is the only fear you need to overcome the fear of having your life changed?

1963.   How does the inanimate produce the animate?

1964.   What might a maximum return on God’s investment in your life look like?

1965.   Every morning when you get up do you ask yourself, “How many things can I find wrong today?”

1966.   Is there no larger organizing principle than desire?

1967.   Did you know that God also uses old people to change the world?

1968.   What’s at the center of things, and why wouldn’t we want to find it?

1969.   Is it your greatest fear that you will be forgotten?

1970.   What are you going to do for the rest of your life, run toward God or away from God?

1971.   Is the problem always located in the other?

1972.   After how much provision made for us might the Lord reasonably expect that we not be anxious going forward?

1973.   Is the orientation of your life toward gratitude?

1974.   Do you fear that God will ask something of you?

1975.   Did you know that, as you are, so you instruct?

1976.   Are you able to articulate the reasonable weaknesses of your own position?

1977.   What are you asking God about his plans for you?

1978.   How have we arrived at our positions?

1979.   How far must we move from a traditional understanding of morality before you too become uncomfortable with the changes?

1980.   How will you know if your culture is deceiving you?

1981.   Are you aware that your life is not a rehearsal?

1982.   Is the full scope of a family’s history to be known only through the letters they wrote?

1983.   Is an addiction a disease?

1984.   Do you talk in terms of being “blessed” or of being “fortunate”?

1985.   What are you going to do after you stop searching?

1986.   Do you stall out at the layer levels and avoid the center of things?

1987.   What have you left unexplored?

1988.   Is it God’s intention that reason cannot finally grasp him?

1989.   Is the follow-up question the rarest bird in conversational captivity?

1990.   While welcoming reason, is it faith that finally bridges the material/mystical divide?

1991.   What if we were made for adoration, but not adoration of the self?

1992.   Do you underestimate the capabilities of other people?

1993.   Have your possessions begun to feel heavy?

1994.   Might it be the most reasonable thing in the world to be unsettled by Jesus Christ?

1995.   Did you know that there is some work in this world that God would best accomplish through you?

1996.   Is your meaningless life making you a little edgy?

1997.   Can there be peace if the answer is always “yes”?

1998.   You prayed for a bit and it didn’t “work,” so now you’ve packed it in?

1999.   Is this about what you feel, hope, think, or imagine, or is it about what may actually be so?

2000.   Do you think a little more spiritual anxiety in your life could be a good thing?

2001.   Don’t you get tired of having your character developed?

2002.   Are you chasing that thing that is finally elusive in this world?

2003.   Isn’t it amazing that, all of a sudden, your life is over?

2004.   Are people dying to be thought of?

2005.   Has your life become an ongoing experience of being disillusioned with your conclusions?

2006.   As a pure materialist, is despair your only reasonable destination?

2007.   Is it the greatest gift I can give you — introducing you to the tension of the unknown?

2008.   Does your personal integrity demand decisive action on Jesus?

2009.   That’s the problem isn’t it, that when you’re as smart as you are you know when you’re dodging God?

2010.   Do your condoms represent your noncommitment?

2011.   Why ask peripheral questions while avoiding central questions?

2012.   When is doing nothing an active response?

2013.   If Jesus is the Light of the World, what darkness in you will be exposed?

2014.   Do you think in terms of aging, or seasoning?

2015.   How does a man get away with not thinking about purpose?

2016.   Are you interested in changing the world without changing yourself?

2017.   Did you know there’s no shame in admitting you have a need for God?

2018.   Do you talk down to anyone, or up to anyone?

2019.   Is cultural messaging on Jesus a campaign of disinformation?

2020.   If Jesus’ message is one of grace, mercy, and forgiveness, why would one be put off by it?

2021.   Are you in the garage today because you don’t have a doghouse?

2022.   Is God working in and through your story?

2023.   I’ve put all my eggs in the Jesus basket.  Where have you put yours?

2024.   What is a life of faith if it isn’t a life of risk?

2025.   In the deep darkness of personal, societal, and even ecclesiastical corruption, does the upward call remain?

2026.   Is self-indulgence a modern virtue?

2027.   Is it a freedom that you have so little control over your own life?

2028.   If God is our deliverer, why are some not delivered?

2029.   Is God anxious about anything?

2030.   If God is not anxious about anything, what should I be anxious about?

2031.   Do you look for, and expect, the movement of God?

2032.   Does it puzzle you that I’m more interested in the State of Your Soul than in the State of the Union?

2033.   How are your face-to-face skills?

2034.   If all the windings around your faith came undone at some point, what if a solid core remains, just waiting for fresh windings?

2035.   Is silence evidence of God’s absence, God’s indifference, or God’s timing?

2036.   Have you noticed that the Gospels never say that Jesus hurried somewhere?

2037.   Do the delays of God make the provision sweeter?

2038.   Does your anger at God create more room for him to move than your indifference?

2039.   How much faith is required to sustain unfaith?

2040.   How much faith is required to sustain a purely material view of life?

2041.   Is your unbelief a full embrace?

2042.   Are you spending all of your time preparing to live your life?

2043.   What if the existence of Truth does not depend on our willingness to consider its possibility?

2044.   Have you considered Jesus as a loving, forgiving, and irremovable historical reality?

2045.   How do we navigate the destruction of reputation by insinuation?

2046.   Do you fear contemplation?

2047.   Have you ever considered that God could be relentlessly committed to you?

2048.   Is prayer the first work, rather than the last work?

2049.   Are you inquisitive in your reading, but not in your conversation?

2050.   If you’re just getting old and depressed, what’s to lose in reading the Gospels?

2051.   Do deep rivers of joy run alongside your melancholy?

2052.   Should it still be considered, even if you don’t believe in it?

2053.   Are you on the run, trying to escape God’s love for you?

2054.   How would you describe what’s missing in our lives?

2055.   Have you experienced the freedom of not being able to control an outcome?

2056.   Can you explain precisely what you mean when you say you love someone?

2057.   Why would you forget something if you’re not old enough to forget?

2058.   What does your relationship with your siblings reveal about you?

2059.   Do you have a reputation for giving unsolicited advice?

2060.   If a city was known for its atheism, why, as a person of faith, would you move away from it rather than toward it?

2061.   What kind of education might an uneducated man carry with him?

2062.   In a world increasingly focused on facts, how shall we respond if the resurrection of Christ is in fact a fact?

2063.   How bout we talk about the rest of your life?

2064.   How do you feel about Pascal’s wager?

2065.   What if there are powers that want you to miss the Truth of things?

2066.   Is your agnosticism your personal design?

2067.   How will you live with your choices when there remains freedom to search further?

2068.   As your friend, what am I supposed to do, sit here and watch?

2069.   Would little children be confused by your way of life?

2070.   Is philosophy prior to politics?

2071.   Without God, is politics all you have left?

2072.   Is ours a time of social upheaval unprecedented in human history?

2073.   If we’re pure materialists, why do we work so hard to preserve our lives?

2074.   Why try so hard to hang on to the world if it all burns up in the end?

2075.   What are the components of your agnosticism?

2076.   Why would you lead a life that the Devil doesn’t care about?

2077.   Have you noticed how the general question exposes the specific question?

2078.   If the lover’s decision is between this woman or that woman, why not just make a biological choice?

2079.   Where do you cluster your conversations in order to avoid yourself?

2080.   What is popular culture trying to sell you?

2081.   What civilization survives that cannot say no to the desires of its people?

2082.   On what grounds might we resist any particular desire that would become a right?

2083.   If you’re convinced there is no God, what have you got to lose in trying to find out if you’re wrong?

2084.   Would you like to hear the question of the day?

2085.   Are you opposed for the right reasons?

2086.   How long does a civilization last that starves its children while offering gourmet pet food?

2087.   If there is a Truth to be found, will life ever be satisfying apart from it?

2088.   Even though you’ve resolved there is no God, are you still troubled by the possibility?

2089.   Why are we obsessed with saying yes, and fearful of saying no?

2090.   What’s the rationale for not euthanizing your mother?

2091.   Do you need to be reminded of a need you’ve forgotten?

2092.   If all of life is about maintenance, how will you have time for people?

2093.   Why not begin the next chapter of your life?

2094.   If you experienced a transcendent moment in your youth, what, if anything, is its enduring effect?

2095.   How do you feel about living in an era of complete political, cultural, and spiritual dissolution?

2096.   If resources are limited, why provide health care for anyone over a certain age?

2097.   You say, “Let go, and let God.”  But what does that mean?

2098.   What if you were to start praying?

2099.   Do you have more information than Jesus does about the end of the world?

2100.   What are you going to tell me I can’t have?

2101.   What’s the difference if the world burns up next week or a million years from now?

2102.   What is love but a chemical reaction?

2103.   What ideas, beliefs, and practices will we mainstream next?

2104.   Should we be asking questions that aren’t supposed to be asked?

2105.   Are we picking up speed down a cultural hill in a car with no brakes?

2106.   Can personal autonomies and individual realities be gathered into a common good?

2107.   If it will be the most difficult thing you’ve ever done, is that why you shouldn’t do it?

2108.   Are you a man of the Machine, a utopian good guy?

2109.   Do you smell a rat?

2110.   Is it an offense to a university if prayers are being offered in any of its buildings?

2111.   Is it your positive contribution to the world to point out all its negative aspects?

2112.   Why should they trust what we’re going to build after we’ve torn everything down?

2113.   I mean, really, what have you got to lose in finding out what God has for you?

2114.   Are you taking me down the wrong road with you?

2115.   Is Jesus the obstacle…  the one in the way of you getting on with your life?

2116.   Would you prefer to be hated for something other than your political views?

2117.   Why would a society so in control of its own destiny live in such fear for its safety?

2118.   Do you step out in faith and call it sensible, or step into the sensible and call it faith?

2119.   Might God enjoy surmounting your insurmountable problems?

2120.   Are you suffering from digital isolation?

2121.   If the person who steals your money needs it more than you do, is it still considered theft?

2122.   Are you conditioning your faith with the sensible?

2123.   Am I not obligated to validate reality as you see it?

2124.   So, you’re going to pick up your ball and go home, and look no further?

2125.   Do the Right and the Left suffer from the same delusion that politics will save us?

2126.   Are you satisfied with your understanding of God?

2127.   What if the problem is Jesus?

2128.   Are you trying hard to find the simple things?

2129.   Why would people make political decisions based on beliefs they don’t hold?

2130.   How do you and I have any right to say what the Church should be?

2131.   Do you see it as your responsibility to disregard the transcendent when you have possibly experienced it?

2132.   What if our religious problem is not with the speculative, but with the historical?

2133.   Does the moral argument change depending on who’s in power?

2134.   In addition to the scientific method, are there other ways of knowing?

2135.   Why the goal that the Church would look like the world, rather than look to transform it?

2136.   Is your problem the buffoons who lead the Church, or the Truth that lies concealed beneath?

2137.   Are you more interested in winning arguments than getting at the truth of things?

2138.   Are some most prejudiced who are ardently opposed to prejudice?

2139.   Has material success filled the God-shaped vacuum in your life?

2140.   What is love, but a combination of neurochemical reactions?

2141.   Have I thanked you for not thinking religion too sensitive a matter for conversation?

2142.   Why would friends withhold information from friends that might be helpful, even transformative for them?

2143.   Why is our social progress filled with so much insecurity?

2144.   How should we think about prosperity and happiness at the expense of Truth?

2145.   How would you describe that interface between mind and heart, as the rational considers the transcendent?

2146.   Is God so small as to be provable in a test tube?

2147.   Will you continue to live in the safety of your ambivalence?

2148.   Is it your greatest fear that God will replace your ambitions with his own?

2149.   Do you welcome your own impotence of influence?

2150.   As an atheist, are you an evangelist for unbelief?

2151.   Do you have doubts, both about religious faith and about atheism?

2152.   What about a God who escapes our definitions, and yet lovingly intrudes into our lives?

2153.   If we fear questions about life and death and God, is that reason enough to steer into them?

2154.   Will you assume and maintain a posture of receptivity?

2155.   Does our search for Truth reveal as much about us as it does that for which we search?

2156.   Is yours a hidden story of a search for God?

2157.   Were universities once environments where life questions were asked rather than avoided?

2158.   Are you all too certain about what you believe?

2159.   Like the Apostle Paul, do you move toward the trouble rather than away from it?

2160.   What if we began a conversation for the rest of our lives?

2161.   What’s the current state of your soul?

2162.   Is God troubling you, in the very best sense?

2163.   Do you think all the great questions of life will converge at the hour of your death?

2164.   Is the fear of what people will think greater than the fear of finding what you’re looking for?

2165.   What would you challenge me to consider about what you believe?

2166.   If you were to throw your lot in with Jesus, what do you imagine he would have you do?

2167.   Are you surprisingly uninterested in fundamental questions?

2168.   What if you’re missing something, in part, because you want to miss something?

2169.   Have you noticed that the Gospels never say that Jesus “ran” somewhere?

2170.   Does your atheism make you feel suitably small and inconsequential?

2171.   Where do the mysteries remain for you?

2172.   Have you considered living a life of trying to exhaust God of God’s ability to be God?

2173.   Are you concerned that Artificial Intelligence will provide your children with their best friends?

2174.   How do you place a moratorium on research that can’t be stopped?

2175.   Does money have more appeal than the common good?

2176.   If everything is fluid, is anything solid?

2177.   How should we adjust our behaviors, relative to our desires?

2178.   When is any particular church wrong enough to be wrong, and who decides?

2179.   Do you discriminate every day, based on the nature of things?

2180.   Should we euthanize on the basis of perceived viability?

2181.   Have you ever walked through a cemetery and asked everyone there what they would do differently?

2182.   Ok, every day you go home from work to do what?

2183.   What’s the endgame of your life?

2184.   Are you disappearing into “Who the hell am I?”?

2185.   Why would St. Monica keep praying for seventeen years?

2186.   What do you imagine could be the weak spots in your secular fortress?

2187.   Which questions should remain the unasked ones?

2188.   Is white supremacy a greater threat than the ideology of “we’re doing this for you for your own good”?

2189.   Did you know that a twenty million dollar house burns just like a twenty thousand dollar house?

2190.   Are there modern virtues (personal autonomy?) that have replaced traditional virtues?

2191.   Are you living your life in some half-assed limbo of religious condescension?

2192.   Do you maintain only those relationships that don’t challenge you?

2193.   Are you familiar with the radically rare concept of kindness?

2194.   Might you feel strangely invincible if it wasn’t about you?

2195.   Do you believe that our political system, when properly configured, will save us?

2196.   Do you live in the freedom of innocence?

2197.   If the answer is not to be found in God, what is the alternative that you offer the world?

2198.   But that’s the Devil’s great trick isn’t it, to keep you occupied?

2199.   Having become your safety, why would God put you in a safe place?

2200.   Has your political conversion left you wanting?

2201.   Why won’t you try to convert me?

2202.   How might we be encouraged or troubled by social uniformity of thought?

2203.   Do you now have enough information that you’re going to stop looking?

2204.   At your age what things seem less fearful?

2205.   When does proper action call for a transcending of desire?

2206.   What are your three favorite cocktail party questions?

2207.   Do you want to live for the things that fire can’t touch?

2208.   Are the best lies mixed with truth?

2209.   Should we question our decision to question no further?

2210.   Did Jesus die on a cross to fix a cosmic problem?

2211.   If you became a follower of Christ, what do you imagine your calling might be?

2212.   What if God doesn’t do quaint?

2213.   Do you desire the untethered life?

2214.   What if the common good isn’t my good?

2215.   Do you check the box that you’ve read the terms of service when you haven’t?

2216.   Is there always time to do what the Lord asks of us?

2217.   What if God has in mind your animation?

2218.   What have you learned about waiting longer than you want to wait for something to happen?

2219.   How much of a transformation within needs to come from without?

2220.   Am I just asking you to make an honest decision?

2221.   If all there is is majority opinion, can anything stop majority opinion?

2222.   What if there are some rules that shouldn’t be broken?

2223.   Is it ironic that pride is the first, and the preeminent, of the seven deadly sins?

2224.   Have you spent your whole life preparing for this stage of your life?

2225.   Are people who are born into a caste system responsible for where they came from?

2226.   What is your thought of the day?

2227.   Did we receive an infallible book from an apostate Church?

2228.   Are you trying to convince me, or do you just want to have a beer?

2229.   How do you respond when the truth starts making its way toward you?

2230.   What do you see as the dangers in contemplation?

2231.   Have you experienced provision for this day?

2232.   If you have only God, do you have quite a bit?

2233.   If worry is about the future, how should I live today?

2234.   Does “be anxious for nothing” mean be anxious for just a few things?

2235.   If God is not anxious about where you’re going to work, will you be anxious?

2236.   Are you loose in the world for God?

2237.   When Jesus asks you, “What do you want me to do for you?”, what will you say?

2238.   How do I love the people who live on my street?

2239.   Have you ever thought about life from a strategy-of-God standpoint?

2240.   Should you consider ultimate things, especially when you’re not having a life crisis?

2241.   Why not feed the cultural beast and let it carry us where it may?

2242.   How are you and your domesticated Jesus getting along?

2243.   Should Truth shape my desire, or desire shape my Truth?

2244.   Have you considered it an expression of God’s love that you can’t hide from Him?

2245.   Does the human improvement project disregard personal culpability?

2246.   And who wants to face the reality of their own sin?

2247.   Is that all it is now, good guys and bad guys?

2248.   Is it still a function of the academic enterprise to critique was is asserted?

2249.   Have we arrived at the presumption that desire trumps principle?

2250.   What, if any, references supersede your sexual preferences?

2251.   Why not consider Jesus before ratifying your final despair?

2252.   In our purely material world, why should your chemical reaction of offense override my chemical reaction of desire?

2253.   How do you approach raising your sons in a world that no longer needs men?

2254.   Are you trying to miss the point?

2255.   How do you think about the coincidence of beauty?

2256.   Are your only credentials that you don’t have any?

2257.   Are your failures larger than God’s ability to overwhelm them?

2258.   Is it possible that the Church endures because of, and in spite of, the Pope?

2259.   What does your life look like now that you’ve stopped searching?

2260.   How will climate change affect you when you’re dead?

2261.   Is morality rights-based?

2262.   How should we think about risk and safety?

2263.   What do you suppose throwing your lot in with Christ would look like?

2264.   What is your current central question?

2265.   What are your thoughts on the purely material view of the experience of beauty?

2266.   Why would God reduce God to your terms?

2267.   Are you certain that it won’t end that way?

2268.   Are you adequately animated by your personal philosophies?

2269.   Do you think there’s a sparking point where material explanation meets the transcendent?

2270.   Is yours a social justice piety?

2271.   Are you just sure enough about things to not know what the hell you’re talking about?

2272.   Do you think one ideological group should police another?

2273.   Are you able to live your modern life unnoticed?

2274.   Do you find your only solace in your criticisms of the modern world?

2275.   Why should God be reducible to material explanation?

2276.   Is complaint all you have to offer?

2277.   Do you have any idea how far a little humility with God and with others would go?

2278.   Would you be open to Jesus calling you to a kind of engagement with the world that you have never imagined?

2279.   Who gave you the responsibility of making doctrinal decisions for the Church?

2280.   From a material standpoint, what difference does it make if the world ends in ten years or in a million years?

2281.   So, how is your telling them that they’re evil going to change them?

2282.   Have you arrived at a proper ecclesiastical impasse with your spouse?

2283.   How much of this is about you not wanting to get too close to the Cross?

2284.   Is personal freedom your religious commitment?

2285.   Can the genetic engineering of children be construed as an act of love?

2286.   Does your reading feed you in the direction of hope?

2287.   Is that what we’re left with?…  you going to the church where you feel comfortable?

2288.   Have you noticed what a troublesome person you can become when you know enough to know that you know nothing?

2289.   Are you dealing in conclusive conclusions?

2290.   Are the names Buddha and Krishna used as swear words?

2291.   Is it a hidden problem of our time that we deflect to the third person?

2292.   How do you think about alcohol consumption at this stage of your life?

2293.   Can you describe that experience, when you think God is calling you, but you feel yourself fighting it off?

2294.   Have you become the person you’ve always wanted to be?

2295.   Are we obsessed with identification of the “other”?

2296.   Why shouldn’t we just eliminate the “other”?

2297.   So, why does history repeat itself?

2298.   “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

2299.   Are you trying to avoid the truth of things?

2300.   Are you prepared for the spiritual battles of our time?

2301.   If important information has come into the world, why would I be so determined to protect myself from it?

2302.   When you consider giving your life to Christ, what does that stir up within you?

2303.   What new information are you letting in?

2304.   Do you think it’s true that, the older you get, the less fearful you become?

2305.   When did you become a Christian without hope?

2306.   Who wants to spend time with a relentless pessimist?

2307.   Are you declarative and reactive, or inquisitive and receptive?

2308.   Is there anyone more discouraging to be around than a Christian with no hope?

2309.   Will a dysfunctional religious background finally keep you from moving toward the truth of things?

2310.   When safety is assured, is it anything goes?

2311.   If one is preoccupied with holding ground and not taking ground, will what is held soon be lost?

2312.   Have you adopted a preservation mindset?

2313.   Does God’s goodness to you inspire you?

2314.   Does your own intransigence stand in the way of experiencing what God has for you?

2315.   Why should a university be the last place where ultimate questions are asked?

2316.   Do young people have the wrong answers because they’re not being asked the right questions?

2317.   Do you need to have some kind of sound in the background at all times?

2318.   Does the prospect of death liberate your search?

2319.   What does pressing against a popular cultural narrative look like?

2320.   Why would I be more interested in the existence of ultimate truth than in your desire to not find it?

2321.   Nowadays does anyone just say “no”?

2322.   Is everyone’s reality to be honored equally?

2323.   Why not get to the heart of the Christian message so we know what we’re dealing with?

2324.   Has the Christian message been humanized into humanitarianism?

2325.   How do you feel about an important calling to a difficult thing?

2326.   Why not insist that God step up and be God?

2327.   Is your Sunday morning coffee and New York Times your only transcendent experience?

2328.   Have you noticed how boring contemporary paganism has become?

2329.   How is it that life can seem so fragile, and yet so enduring?

2330.   Do you move freely between material and transcendent explanation?

2331.   Why not go down in flames instead of just crawling to the end?

2332.   Will you take the yoke of Christ upon you?

2333.   Ultimately, is the question of Jesus large enough that you have to go through it rather than around it?

2334.   What’s the final push going to look like for you?

2335.   Why not finally press in to see what Jesus is made of?

2336.   Does a spiraling down negate the upward call?

2337.   Why not always err on the permissive side?

2338.   How do you think about the progressive nature of concession?

2339.   Where are we after we have achieved absolute equality?

2340.   When does it become my human right to euthanize a family member?

2341.   Are you trying too hard to be unconventional?

2342.   What is it about Jesus that you’re afraid of?

2343.   Why not swing freely in the search?

2344.   Have we prioritized pets over people?

2345.   Do I decide when it becomes an inconvenience to me?

2346.   Are all actions permissible that are construed as loving?

2347.   Is the great cosmic deception that of getting you to stop searching?

2348.   What danger does Jesus present to your ambitions?

2349.   Should we begin a conversation for the rest of our lives?

2350.   Do you have enough time left in your life to be indirect?

2351.   Is it surprising to you that there would be spiritual conflict surrounding your religious considerations?

2352.   Have you noticed how an explicit rejection of Jesus has a certain judicial feel to it?

2353.   Do we create moral norms, or do they precede us?

2354.   Do we believe that something is right because we feel it is right, or because we’ve voted that it should be right?

2355.   Do you remain a moral relativist when someone cuts in front of you in the checkout line?

2356.   How can right and wrong be any more than what the majority of people want them to be?

2357.   When trying to understand why there is so much evil in the world, do you sometimes catch a glimpse of it in your own soul?

2358.   Is the Incarnation a philosophical problem?

2359.   Are we concerned about climate change because we want future generations to experience purpose and meaning?

2360.   In conversation are you interested in moving toward, or away from, the heat?

2361.   Of necessity, must you travel a spiritually volatile road?

2362.   What, if any, massive assumptions do you see going unquestioned in our world?

2363.   Do I have a cultural obligation to watch what Hollywood produces?

2364.   As a Protestant, is there any more accurate interpretation of Scripture than your own?

2365.   Do you want to get at the center of things, regardless of the cost or the joy?

2366.   Where is a hope that endures all battles against it?

2367.   If you become persuaded of a truth, will you still commit to it if it comes with a social cost?

2368.   Are you aware that the Gospel of John is loose in the world in both print and electronic form, and is freely available to anyone who will open it?

2369.   In education has the interrogative been overwhelmed by the declarative?

2370.   Is life really about so little?

2371.   Are you weary of your spirituality small life?

2372.   Has Jesus put his finger on all your investments?

2373.   Do you suppose it’s true that Jesus never hurried anywhere?

2374.   What conversations do you have with God about his purposes for you?

2375.   Might the common good consist of what the minority choose?

2376.   Do you find it troubling that Jesus may be more than just a great moral teacher?

2377.   Why save the world from climate change?

2378.   Have you found your purpose and meaning in self-care?

2379.   If in times past universities engaged ultimate questions, do they now live in fear of them?

2380.   Right before your decision about alcohol, what were you noticing about yourself?

2381.   Can you give an example of what you learned from something that went wrong?

2382.   What have you learned about sitting quietly with people?

2383.   If there is a God, and that God is a God of engagement, does that change the shape of life?

2384.   If given another chance, would the people in the cemetery think differently about their fears?

2385.   Will you receive the call of Christ, or settle for some smaller ambition?

2386.   Is my spelling of a word as acceptable as your spelling of a word?

2387.   Have you discovered the freedom of talking about God when you’re old?

2388.   What if coming to faith when you’re young or coming to faith when you’re old is all the same to God?

2389.   Is it righteous indignation, or just telling the truth?

2390.   Do you look at cemeteries differently, now that you’ve received your diagnosis?

2391.   How about you apologize for everything in your life that you didn’t have control over, and I’ll apologize for everything in my life that I didn’t have control over, and we’ll go from there?

2392.   Are we turning partial goods into ultimate goods?

2393.   What if younger generations just haven’t been given anything, spiritually, to work with?

2394.   What questions remain the same for your generation and my generation?

2395.   Has Jesus given your interpretation of Scripture final authority?

2396.   What could be more liberating than being a truth-seeker later in life?

2397.   For every staunch atheist, are there ten human beings longing for the reality of God?

2398.   Is the appearance of Jesus in the world a problem for your intellectual integrity?

2399.   How do people come alive at the demonstration of virtue?

2400.   In a sense, why would I read a book when I could have a conversation with all of you?

2401.   Do you desire to leave a legacy of meaning in a world that has no meaning?

2402.   Are you getting underneath it and behind it and around it and inside of it?

2403.   Do you think it’s possible to have a long-term friendship with someone with whom you have significant differences?

2404.   Are you humble in your certainties?

2405.   Would a search for truth be more compelling if it held out an offer of life?

2406.   Does death create a level playing field?

2407.   Do you go from “how can there not be a God in a universe so large,” to “how can there possibly be a God in a universe so large?”

2408.   Shouldn’t we expect more from each other than just political agreement?

2409.   What are you going to do, now that you’ve been given so many opportunities to quit?

2410.   Should you be surprised that God would call you into the Church in a time of corruption and confusion?

2411.   If there is no explanation for consciousness, why preserve it?

2412.   Do you have conversations or just make speeches?

2413.   Are the components of your family system so deeply embedded that you can no longer see them?

2414.   Why not accept the best offer on the table?

2415.   Save the planet for what?

2416.   Are you tired of the meaninglessness in other people’s lives?

2417.   How do you suppose God works with what did happen, rather than with what might have happened?

2418.   Isn’t it great, when it’s all about race, it’s not about you?

2419.   Have you seen too much of God’s provision to be anxious about it?

2420.   What do you need from me as your friend?

2421.   What is conversational surgery?

2422.   What is Descartes distilled?

2423.   Did the one who taught you that Jesus is a myth do you a greater disservice than the one who failed to teach you about racism?

2424.   Do you see cemeteries as a wonderful reminder?

2425.   Is it a small matter to say that it doesn’t matter?

2426.   Is your cell phone more helpful to you than you want it to be?

2427.   Do you think there is such a thing as meaning, or just a feeling of meaning?

2428.   How is an impatient approach to spiritual discernment like trying to cook a stew quickly?

2429.   Does the medicine work because you think it works?

            Did Jesus rise from the dead because you think he did?

            Do you receive the forgiveness of God because you think you do?

2430.   What schools of thought have you been schooled in?

2431.   Is the only remaining absolute the absolute of my desire?

2432.   Is justice what the majority desire it to be?

2433.   Do we render a disservice to society by making primary goods of secondary goods?

2434.   Is logic adequate to move us?

2435.   Is reality for you what reality is?

2436.   Do we reserve a dignity for ourselves that we don’t for other primates?

2437.   Are purpose and meaning material constructs?

2438.   When technology transcends the natural order, can it be stopped?

2439.   Is fear a doorway?

2440.   Is Wokeism the new McCarthyism?

2441.   Have we become obsessed with “getting out the vote” because we are willing to embrace majoritarianism?

2442.   What have you learned from any particular repetitive action?

2443.   Do you say that with certainty because you know it to be certain?

2444.   Why would I leave the Church during tumultuous times — days that confirm its substance?

2445.   Save the world for what?

2446.   Are you depriving the world of God’s call on your life?

2447.   Have inconvenient spiritual truths been kept from you?

2448.   Why are you running from God?

2449.   Why would we resist God’s initiative?

2450.   Does what you’ve been told about Jesus amount to misinformation?

2451.   Did you know that Catholicism is only a fulfillment and never a negation?

2452.   What would animate your life more than a search for Truth?

2453.   Is agnosticism your considered position or your default position?

2454.   At some point does religious integrity require that you consider whether Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God”…?

2455.   Do you know the adventure of engagement?

2456.   Isn’t it great that now, in retirement, you have plenty of time to pursue the Truth of things?

2457.   Do all Christian churches possess a guarantee of protection from error?

2458.   Have you lived enough life to know what sin looks like in you?

2459.   Does the New York Times both broaden and narrow your mind?

2460.   Is the New York Times your sacred scripture?

2461.   What are the wonderful problems that Utopianism ignores?

2462.   Is everyone reasonably bigoted against something?

2463.   Are you intolerant of open marriage, especially when it comes to your own?

2464.   Is Humanitarianism without Christ the modern perversion of Christianity?

2465.   If I could live Christian’ly without Christ, why wouldn’t I?

2466.   How can anyone be wrong who’s sincere?

2467.   If you still believe, why do you still believe?

2468.   “God, if you’re out there, what do you want from me?”

2469.   Is the truth of the Gospel established or disproven by you?

2470.   Why focus on a secondary effect rather than a primary cause?

2471.   Is God too big to address your regrets?

2472.   What does Jesus know about living with his in-laws?

2473.   Instead of being wise, have you chosen to be bitter?

2474.   Is there anything in God’s faithfulness that overwhelms your own history of foolishness?

2475.   Are you willing to follow your philosophical positions to their logical ends?

2476.   If you’re not really interested in knowing, why would God reveal anything to you?

2477.   Which is the better path, to speak to a man about the nature of his greed, or to enact policy in an effort to constrain it?

2478.   How do you see the modern world?

2479.   How do you think about regret and faith?

2480.   What are you thinking about today?…  what are you considering?

2481.   What should we do when politics can’t solve the problem?

2482.   What should we do when science can’t solve the problem?

2483.   What should we do when economics can’t solve the problem?

2484.   Why would you not make an informed decision about Jesus?

2485.   Why would we seek political solutions to spiritual problems?

2486.   Have you felt the fire of the Cross before locating to a level of safety?

2487.   Can there be both an urgency and a resting?

2488.   Am I grasping or receiving?

2489.   If I desire something, when should I not have it?

2490.   Are you talking yourself out of looking at yourself?

2491.   If conversation is an art form, what are its components?

2492.   Is that you, a man without sin?

2493.   Are you building a house out of materials that won’t endure?

2494.   Are you living faithfully or safely?

2495.   How do we manage scientific discoveries within a moral framework?

2496.   How has your perspective on fear changed over the years?

2497.   When are you going to receive what Christ has already done for you?

2498.   How would you describe your experience of avoiding God?

2499.   Does that make you the only human being who has never avoided God?

2500.   At this stage of your life, how do you imagine God is at work in you?

2501.   If evil exists, is it because of a lack of education?

2502.   What are God’s plans for (name)?

2503.   Do you have anything to give me today?

2504.   Will majoritarianism sustain a democracy?

2505.   Can a nation survive its God being replaced by “values”?

2506.   Do you suspect a dimension beyond the material?

2507.   Has Harvard violated its original mission statement?

2508.   At this stage of your life, do you feel like God (if there is one) is bugging you about anything?

2509.   What is our response if we can’t cross over to God, but God crosses over to us?

2510.   Is there a directness in the words of Christ that we are keen to avoid?

2511.   If there’s more going on with all of this, why would you want to miss out?

2512.   Does your present circumstance define your full experience?

2513.   Do you believe there is a moral order independent of our choices and wishes?

2514.   Is it possible to believe and live in such a way that, on your deathbed, you have no regrets?

2515.   Can any civilization survive with “progress” as its belief system?

2516.   Can a civilization be sustained by values that are no longer associated with the idea of God?

2517.   What are you saying to God about your availability?

2518.   How do you feel about the elimination of gender?

2519.   How do we get from the Big Bang to consciousness?

2520.   If God speaks to you will you have the humility to hear?

2521.   Does the call of the Buddha elicit a congenial response, and the call of Jesus Christ a visceral response?

2522.   Is it possible that, as messed up as people are, the thing itself is still true?

2523.   Do you mean the apostate church that formulated the Nicene Creed that you recite in your church?

2524.   Do you ask questions to elicit something you can talk about?

2525.   Do you ever need to get out of your head, and out of your heart, and into your hands?

2526.   Does your story include only that which you freely share?

2527.   Do you think male and female differences, if there are any, should ever be expressed vocationally?

2528.   When we achieve full equality, will despair increase if it fails to satisfy?

2529.   How did we arrive at intelligibility?

2530.   How did we transition from carbon-based life forms to consciousness and intelligibility?

2531.   How are we to think about the Big Bang in terms of scientific probability?

2532.   What are the possible problems with a truth that is individually designed?

2533.   Is it too easy to be angry at God?

2534.   Will multiculturalism fully realized produce a massive monoculture?

2535.   Have rights become nothing more than legalized desires?

2536.   When we finally figure out what’s wrong, will it be too late to fix it?

2537.   How do you think about loss, and the recovery of what you thought was lost?

2538.   Should we prioritize the exception?

2539.   Does modern man have a disordered relationship with his pets?

2540.   Do we imagine democracy to be more durable than it actually is?

2541.   I get that you’re a Buddhist, but does Buddhism solve the problem of Jesus?

2542.   Do you think it’s possible to employ religious language to avoid Jesus?

2543.   Does it matter if the Incarnation and the Resurrection are historical and not mythical?

2544.   How do we establish ethical standards but by majority opinion?

2545.   Do you draw on your own brokenness to minister to other people?

2546.   How much time do you think you have?

2547.   Have you experienced how talk of God becomes immediately personal when it becomes talk about Jesus Christ?

2548.   Have you considered that the story of Jesus Christ is all about the natural order being overwhelmed by the supernatural?

2549.   Might God use you to reconfigure the modern world?

2550.   Is a question exponentially more powerful than a statement?

2551.   Is it interesting what isn’t being said?

2552.   Do you think political conversation can be used to deflect the question of what God is calling you to do in the world?

2553.   Have you ever sensed that God is calling you to something marvelous and completely unacceptable?

2554.   Someday when we’re off the clock and have a stiff drink in our hands will you tell me your spiritual story?

2555.   Do you attend the church you go to because it lines up with what you believe?

2556.   What is your spiritual disposition?

2557.   Isn’t it great when certain information comes into the world and you can’t do a damn thing about it?

2558.   On a rough religious sea do you want to be in a large boat or a small boat?

2559.   Have you installed protections in your spiritual life to shield you from disruptive information?

2560.   So, are you the only person in the world who doesn’t need the mercy of God?

2561.   Is your life all about very important secondary matters?

2562.   How do you think about atheism in terms of the problems it doesn’t solve or the questions it doesn’t answer?

2563.   Might your life become larger after it becomes smaller?

2564.   Do you have value only because someone assigned value to you?

2565.   Have you noticed how people like to tell stories, but they don’t like to listen to stories?

2566.   Does the prospect of death free a man to explore not only the world around him, but also his own heart?

2567.   Are you making it easier for people to tell you what you need to hear?

2568.   Why, in retirement, would you deprive the world of the wisdom you have gained?

2569.   Has your cause become your substitute for God?

2570.   If it’s possible that God is speaking to you, is it also possible that you’re not listening?

2571.   Who better to come alongside the broken than those who have been broken?

2572.   If God is asking you to be something, don’t you have a right to ask God to be God?

2573.   Have you amassed enough arguments against God to finally free yourself from Him?

2574.   If you have, how have you gotten through periods of resentment toward God?

2575.   What’s your assessment of Jesus in relation to other religious figures?

2576.   Do you imagine the rational and the mystical can both be operative in your coming to faith?

2577.   Would you expect a loving God to interact with you only on rational terms?

2578.   What resistance do you feel when you think about God becoming active in your life?

2579.   Is it out of love for you that Jesus violates your space?

2580.   What will you do when you experience a decline in your skills?

2581.   If a woman’s desire is larger than the content of her womb, why not commodify that content?

2582. Is Catholicism the fulfillment of Judaism?

2583.   If everyone is a leader or a life-coach, who are the followers and the players?

2584.   Is the fastest growing Christian community those Christians who no longer go to church?

2585.   What good thing can I use in your life to keep you from doing God’s will?

2586.   Which desires should not be rights?

2587.   Did you know that the realization you’re aging is an invitation from God?

2588.   At what point does a civilization implode for lack of external reference?

2589.   Is Jesus Christ the final obstacle to your self-determined freedom?

2590.   If it’s not the easiest place to be, is God’s will the safest place in which to be?

2591.   Could American democracy survive a majority Muslim population?

2592.   If there’s nothing more than material explanation, is there anything more than material explanation?

2593.   On mindfulness and care of the soul do God’s ideas differ from your own?

2594.   Why would God give us desires he doesn’t want us to fulfill?

2595.   When should I ask myself to do the difficult thing?

2596.   What are the ramifications of desire being made a primary reference?

2597.   Why deal only with the slavery of people, and not the slavery of one’s own heart?

2598.   Is the next step the euthanizing of the individual for the greater good of the family?

2599.   Why did those who opposed Jesus in his time never dispute that miracles had been performed?

2600.   Is it the work of the modern world to deflect you, distract you, and insulate you from contemplation?

2601.   What if the story of redemption includes even you?

2602.   What do you think would happen if God got his hands on your life?

2603.   Is it courageous to commit an immoral act?

2604.   Are you searching for wisdom or opinion?

2605.   Is yours a recreational skepticism?

2606.   Do you think God is at work in your life?

2607.   Does public opinion create a moral foundation?

2608.   Can democracy survive the tyranny of desire?

2609.   Are moral structures more pragmatic than inherent?

2610.   Is there anyone left to be a follower in a culture obsessed with leadership?

2611.   What’s your current mission statement?

2612.   Is it possible to not have enough time to think about eternal things?

2613.   Why save the earth from climate change if science tells us it will eventually burn up anyway?

2614.   What would allow you to die a happy man?

2615.   Is Humanitarianism a distortion of the Christian message?

2616.   Do you declare a man a believer or does God?

2617.   Are we groping for a central truth, even as we have determined there will be no central truth?

2618.   Does calling a man to a higher place require definition of his present state?

2619.   How much of learning is about not protecting the self?

2620.   Is that a lot to ask of a carbon molecule?

2621.   Does the Devil consider your behavior completely unacceptable?

2622.   Are you living boldly, loving recklessly, seeking the heart of God?

2623.   If I tell you the weaknesses of my position, will you tell me the weaknesses of yours?

2624.   Do you ask your friends questions and then answer them before they reply?

2625.   Is an action moral or immoral if unseen?

2626.   What are the eternal questions you would ask to provoke your generation?

2627.   Is it that it’s not there, or that you just don’t care to look?

2628.   If we follow the science, why don’t couples have babies in their twenties?

2629.   How much self is involved with self-improvement?

2630.   Should your dog’s rights be equal to your own?

2631.   How do purely material beings have rights?

2632.   Are you ready to bring your gifts into the Church?

2633.   Isn’t it marvelous that God is in pursuit of you?

2634.   Are you certain there will be no eternal consequences of your decision?

2635.   Can unenforced natural law be violated with impunity?

2636.   Are there moral laws that are real, or just moral laws that are real to you?

2637.   In the end is our democracy built upon an inescapable religious foundation?

2638.   Is it unreasonable that truth might be disturbing?

2639.   How would you describe the consequences of your settled decisions?

2640.   Does the Universe care if you’re unfaithful to your wife?

2641.   Does a material view of the world need to be consistently applied in one’s life?

2642.   Does morality by majority vote alter the nature of a constitutional democracy?

2643.   Do you only ask questions that let God off the hook?

2644.   Do you want there to be something more than what you have?

2645.   Does a culture bear the marks of truth-avoidance?

2646.   How much self-knowledge is necessary to ask probing questions?

2647.   Are you ready to be faithful in much because you’ve been faithful in little?

2648.   Are we going to reject something for what it is, or for what we imagine it to be?

2649.   Does the problem reside in those who are not like you?

2650.   Are you content with your misinformation about Jesus?

2651.   Does it take a real man to follow Christ?

2652.   Is yours an unprotected search?

2653.   What if everything were the way I wanted it?

2654.   What is an untethered freedom?

2655.   Do you see your life as having a providential shape?

2656.   What if God gives us just what we need today?

2657.   Is life really any different if you subtract God from it?

2658.   Do you believe that, where the Lord wants you, the Lord will put you?

2659.   Do you feel like you spend all your time preparing to live life?

2660.   Might your fears be overwhelmed by love and grace and wonder?

2661.   How do you think about propriety?

2662.   Must our journey have no arrivals?

2663.   Unnatural compared to what?

2664.   Do we joke about “living in sin” because we believe there’s something true about it?

2665.   To arrive at the truth do you first need to get Jesus out of the way?

2666.   If you keep giving your life to God, will God keep giving your life back to you?

2667.   What are you doing to avoid God’s call on your life?

2668.   Has the term “ubiquitous” become ubiquitous?

2669.   Do we see in modern American life the cultural validation of excess?

2670.   Wouldn’t that be something if there were an access point back into faith?

2671.   Where is God in extremis?

2672.   What are the timeless, enduring questions?

2673.   When did healthcare become a right?

2674.   In the heat of the moment do we consider the afterward?

2675.   Having eliminated Jesus Christ, are you left with a competition of truths?

2676.   What are the questions that have no generational boundary?

2677.   Will the questions that bring you to Catholicism go away if you leave it?

2678.   So, if you’re not going to follow Christ for the rest of your life, what ARE you going to do?

2679.   Don’t you find Jesus to be troubling in the very best sense?

2680.   What is it with politics’ inability to change the heart of a man?

2681.   If the Truth is not the shape you want it to be, will you still let it in?

2682.   Have you experienced the leverage of Christ in your life?

2683.   Does accountability increase with awareness?

2684.   Does the modern university form us in wisdom, or opinion?

2685.   How do you think about the university and acceptable thought?

2686.   Is it the idea of the university to form opinions?

2687.   Have you exhausted the historical reality of Jesus before moving on to another belief system?

2688.   Who decides what violence is acceptable?

2689.   Are you striving for relevance?

2690.   What is God’s place for you in the world?

2691.   Have universities educated us out of humility?

2692.   Is it only the fear of death that keeps you alive?

2693.   What are you going to do about Jesus Christ if it was YOU he died for?

2694.   Are you hiding behind themes of religion and politics because you don’t want to deal with God directly?

2695.   If you’re good at telling a story, are you also good at listening to one?

2696.   Can morality without God achieve social stability?

2697.   Is it that we have God and evil, or evil with no boundaries?

2698.   Do you see any downsides to privatized religion?

2699.   Do private realities supersede public realities?

2700.   Who is the dangerous man, but the one who knows his own brokenness?

2701.   Are you so self-assured that you never weep?

2702.   How do you think about education apart from its vocational component?

2703.   Does your service to humankind draw adequate motivation from humankind?

2704.   Who will speak restraint to the culture?

2705.   Why not just be a humanitarian?

2706.   Can a society finally circumvent the desire of its people?

2707.   How bout we talk about more angular things?

2708.   If life is short, why would you not read the Gospels fearlessly?

2709.   Are you afraid to make an examined rejection?

2710.   What proud obstacles live in you?

2711.   Is your father or grandmother a prime candidate for euthanasia right now?

2712.   Should you be euthanized when you become a burden to the healthcare system or to your family?

2713.   Is your bitterness a service to the world?

2714.   When did a twelve-ounce beer become twelve dollars?

2715.   Does legislation form the conscience?

2716.   Is your strongest commitment in life to your personal autonomy?

2717.   Is there a point at which you close your open mind?

2718.   How do you feel about science’s reach into “normal” human experience?

2719.   Can we legislate the normative?

2720.   Is it the judgment of God that he finally lets you have your way?

2721.   If God offers you hope, why would you refuse it?

2722.   What are you going to do in your search for Truth if Jesus Christ claims to be that Truth?

2723.   Why would one not want to talk about it anymore?

2724.   Is there anything in you that doesn’t want there to be something ultimately true?

2725.   Have you managed to make your separation from the Church a small matter?

2726.   Do you prefer the middle road of noncommitment?

2727.   How is the world changed with unchanged hearts?

2728.   If Jesus Christ is the central problem that must be solved, what are you going to do about that?

2729.   Are you going to settle for someone speculating that Jesus Christ never existed?

2730.   If enough people endorse your idea is it intrinsically validated?

2731.   Do you want to be an idiot, or just a fool?

2732.   Why would you even look for the Truth if, having found it, you refused to give your life to it?

2733.   How is wisdom to pass through imposed generational barriers?

2734.   If you avoid Jesus Christ does that make you a coward?

2735.   Why does God encourage us just to discourage us?

2736.   Does evolution care if one people group enslaves another?

2737.   What if it’s possibly true?

2738.   So why not give your last years to God?

2739.   What’s your situation with God these days?

2740.   How should a person of faith think about disappointment?

2741.   What does faith look like when you’re stuck in circumstances you can’t change?

2742.   Do you think nihilism is a reasonable, even satisfactory option?

2743.   Have you considered that you don’t have to live a lie if you’re not living a lie?

2744.   Do you find any joy in self-control?

2745.   Have you considered that there is always another way God can get at you?

2746.   Is self-reflection an offense to the modern mind?

2747.   Do we deplore polarization even as we foster it?

2748.   Is the world a macrocosm of your marriage?

2749.   Do you think love really means “never having to say you’re sorry”?

2750.   What will you do if Jesus Christ became sin on your behalf?

2751.   Does a democracy survive by imposition of principle?

2752.   How should we think about rights and restraint?

2753.   How do we institute restraints when rights are paramount?

2754.   Do you have the right to tell me what I don’t have a right to?

2755.   When, out of love, should you say “this is bullshit”?

2756.   Do you have a right to good healthcare, a decent education, and a great job?

2757.   Are you a turf-to-be-explored or turf-to-be-protected person?

2758.   Do we major in the minors, and minor in the majors?

2759.   Is that what the Christian experience is to you, a set of principles and obligations?

2760.   Can you describe any “where the hell is God?” moments you’ve experienced?

2761.   How long will your life be someone else’s fault?

2762.   Why would you tell the Son of God, the Savior of the world, that you’re not interested?

2763.   Is a secondary matter given its coherence only by the primary matter that precedes it?

2764.   Can political talk be a means to avoiding oneself?

2765.   Do you have anyone in your life who lets you know when you’re being a jerk?

2766.   As one approaches the end of life, is it easier or more difficult to be a nihilist?

2767.   Can the grace of God, in practical terms, overwhelm your prior foolishness?

2768.   Why should you be interested in what I think, when you could be interested in what may actually be so?

2769.   Where does evolution take us if it’s not constrained by the transcendent?

2770.   Have you noticed that faith feels a lot like foolishness?

2771.   Must values ever be imposed?

2772.   Should I be suspicious of a popular cultural virtue?

2773.   Are you depressed because you’re not saying what needs to be said?

2774.   Should I be skeptical of my own skepticism?

2775.   Why save the planet if ours is a purely material existence?

2776.   Resist?  Resist what?  Resist everything but yourself?

2777.   What is reality but a majority opinion?

2778.   If it’s important to be true to yourself, is it ever important to be true to something larger than yourself?

2779.   Have you finally arrived at correct thinking?

2780.   Have you chased after everything in life except God?

2781.   Have you asked Jesus to be who he says he is?

2782.   What sort of people might we become if God doesn’t exist?

2783.   Do you see the capacity for evil in your life, if not the presence of it?

2784.   Are you in a position to say that what we do with Jesus doesn’t matter?

2785.   What should a God of justice do about you?

2786.   If the whole thing about Jesus is true, why would a man not spend his entire life trying to find out?

2787.   Is collective self-restraint the only guarantor of democracy?

2788.   Do we find comfort in our resentments?

2789.   Can politics solve the problem of me being a selfish bastard?

2790.   What do we expect of politics that it can’t deliver?

2791.   If we abandon the natural sexual order, what’s next?

2792.   If enough people decide that something is right, then it’s right, right?

2793.   Can you provide me with a world view that is more accurate, more reasonable, and more humane than the Catholic world view?

2794.   Why be a restorationist if the original is still available?

2795.   What are the possibilities and limitations of your generation interacting with my generation?

2796.   Does pluralism presume relativism?

2797.   Does aging ever feel like release?

2798.   Does being old free you to fearlessly pursue the truth of things?

2799.   Is that why you’re not married, because marriage helps you see who you are?

2800.   How much of the truth about yourself do you not want to face?

2801.   Do we believe that our fundamental problems are political?

2802.   Does majoritarianism precede dissolution?

2803.   What if it’s not just myth and metaphor?

2804.   If the Church doesn’t call for restraint in the culture, who will?

2805.   What’s the adventure of your life right now?

2806.   Is it also the objective of legal counsel to establish, and profit from, the “untruth” in a case?

2807.   Should one finally “give up” on the legal profession as one might give up on the Church?

2808.   Is the legal profession subject to corruption, in part, because it is God-ordained?

2809.   When do corrupt individuals finally corrupt the whole?

2810.   Are men still made new?

2811.   Is it your word against God’s?

2812.   Must life be spiritually ordinary?

2813.   How do you think about primary and secondary concerns?

2814.   Does desire establish or alter nature?

2815.   How could a highly educated man be a scoundrel?

2816.   Can education fix everything?

2817.   What is the future of “soft skills”?

2818.   Is Truth relentlessly available to the common man?

2819.   Do you think a man chooses his own calling, or is it given to him?

2820.   Do you have anyone to talk with about what is REALLY going on in your life?

2821.   Why would one not even care to know?

2822.   Do we see God’s particular will worked out in our lives only as it is connected with God’s will being worked out in the lives of others?

2823.   Are you suggesting that I should start caring what people think of me?

2824.   Is there anything about you that contributes to the brokenness of the world?

2825.   Is it about the singer or the song?

2826.   What would you do differently?

2827.   What have you learned about moving on from your mistakes?

2828.   Are you losing interest in protecting yourself from information?

2829.   If you no longer make mistakes, are you dead?

2830.   Is the modern American politician too eager to be President?

2831.   At some point does the dog make sacrifices for you, rather than you for the dog?

2832.   Are polarized political positions also a metaphor for your marriage?

2833.   What sort of mortal thoughts does your aging body inspire?

2834.   Can gratitude be directed toward the universe instead of a person?

2835.   Have your experiences finalized the matter?

2836.   Would you say that your love for your spouse is a reality?

2837.   What is your experience of God calling you into something that doesn’t make sense?

2838.   What’s your current situation with God?

2839.   Why the hell do you think I’m asking these questions, to advance my popularity?

2840.   What is it about your philosophy of life that gets you up in the morning?

2841.   Why would you be part of a profession that has its own history of corruption?

2842.   What kind of friend doesn’t try to convert you?

2843.   What is your experience of being disappointed through a process of provision?

2844.   How should we think about living our entire life with an unresolved struggle?

2845.   How should we think about positions that are to the right of your rightness, or to the left of your leftness?

2846.   What is more satisfying than minds around a table grappling with a question on the table?

2847.   Can technology be restrained by a society that has lost the will to say “no”?

2848.   How many court decisions are “proved by science”?

2849.   How do you implement top-down change with people who resist change?

2850.   Did the Founding Fathers know enough about our republic to know what it can’t survive?

2851.   Do we gin up virtues in lieu of pursuing interior change?

2852.   Is civic virtue imposed?

2853.   Why should aging be about resistance rather than openness?

2854.   Is hope possibly found in what one hopes to not find?

2855.   Do you dismiss your friend’s conversion to protect your own heart?

2856.   How do you think about faith and finances?

2857.   What am I missing?

2858.   Are you ready to meet God if you don’t wake up from your nap?

2859.   Have you informed your conscience before doing what your conscience demands?

2860.   Am I supposed to think it is NOT the most important thing?

2861.   In a search for Truth have you experienced the freedom in discovering it’s not about you?

2862.   Is the common good now synonymous with majority opinion?

2863.   Will you help me understand what is naïve about my questions?

2864.   Can America survive a top-down imposition of “values”?

2865.   What are your thoughts on screen addiction?

2866.   Do you think that I think you think that small?

2867.   What is the role of humility in assertion?

2868.   Does Jesus get at your spiritually reactive self?

2869.   Does justice require of us retributive justice?

2870.   What are you going to do with Jesus if he’s an objective reality?

2871.   Is our country a macrocosm of our broken personal relationships?

2872.   Is your estrangement from your own family a national problem?

2873.   Do you invite sameness of thought to your dinner parties?

2874.   How much about yourself do you not want to find out?

2875.   Why would I go through my whole life not wanting to find out if Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God”?

2876.   Does your therapist tell you what you want to hear?

2877.   What does a democracy require its citizens to be made of?

2878.   How much disagreement can your friendships survive?

2879.   What would be the cost to your marriage if you decided to follow Jesus?

2880.   Should I dismiss the legal profession every time I see an ambulance-chasing attorney billboard?

2881.   Do you desire Truth enough?

2882.   If there’s no center, do you become the center?

2883.   When does the most libertine among us say, “that’s enough”?

2884.   As a parent, how do you think about giving your children what they want when they want it?

2885.   Is a society changed before its citizens are changed?

2886.   Does democracy require a Judeo-Christian worldview to survive?

2887.   With ever-expanding permissions, is it only you who can say “no”?

2888.   Yes, I AM trying to convert you.  Why wouldn’t I?

2889.   Why would a man resist what is ultimately hopeful?

2890.   Is yours an American Dream version of Christianity?

2891.   Are you willing to stake your eternity on Jesus being wrong?

2892.   Does your freedom ever become a prison?

2893.   Are you weary of being anti-everything?

2894.   Have criticism and complaint become your calling?

2895.   Do cemeteries nudge you past your petty fears?

2896.   Is it a disservice to your friend to tell him he can find the truth within himself if he can’t?

2897.   What’s the point of asking the “myth” of Jesus to sustain you?

2898.   Is it within the purview of the intellect to make definitive statements about God?

2899.   When do we pursue our desires, and when do we restrain them?

2900.   Should God be interested in penetrating our desire to not know?

2901.   Is it that not even the imbeciles who run the Church can destroy the Truth of it?

2902.   Is it justice to give your kid what he wants?

2903.   Should a society have the freedom to pursue its own dissolution?

2904.   Is it wrong to say that there is right and wrong?

2905.   Are you just going with the information you have?

2906.   Should you enter the Catholic Church for its current condition, its nature, or both?

2907.   Does a courageous man feel courageous?

2908.   Does biology have meaning?

2909.   Do you think screen addiction is an exaggerated concern?

2910.   Are you as surprised by the good in the world as by the evil?

2911.   Why should I continue to search for God if I am religiously damaged?

2912.   Are you satisfied with an evolutionary explanation for morality?

2913.   In your sixties are you still avoiding the grace of God as you did in your twenties?

2914.   Why would Jesus’ disciples die for a religion they conspired to create?

2915.   If democracy demands individual responsibility to God, is it now lost?

2916.   The more people that vote for something the more right it is, right?

2917.   Why would you establish your unbelief on a presupposition?

2918.   Why would a priest not be subject to ten times the temptation a lawyer faces?

2919.   Are you fully committed to being uninformed about the Catholic Church?

2920.   Is yours a popular notion rather than a considered view of the Catholic Church?

2921.   Why the need to restore what never departed?

2922.   If the rational mind is ever penetrated by the transcendent, why would there not be emotion?

2923.   What was Kierkegaard like at parties?

2924.   Do you make the most of every opportunity to be resentful?

2925.   Are you ambivalent about the question of God to the point of being cavalier?

2926.   Is God’s perspective on urgency more accurate than your own?

2927.   Is there a best part to this?

2928.   If you think Jesus is calling you, how do you deflect it?

2929.   Do we attempt to preserve the core of our society while having removed it?

2930.   Why be a Catholic if it’s not objectively so?

2931.   Are you looking for wisdom or permission?

2932.   Is it the calling of a saint to repeatedly give away his earthly security?

2933.   Are you content with your beige, benign, self-organized spirituality?

2934.   Can God be unloving if God is love?

2935.   In God’s economy is ten dollars in the bank the same as ten thousand dollars?

2936.   Will I be obsessed with investing, only to discover that I invested my life in the wrong things?

2937.   Why would Africans sell other Africans to white traders?

2938.   Are you less privileged than many who grew up in America, and more privileged than many who grew up in India?

2939.   If we’re only material beings, why would we wonder if we’re more than material beings?

2940.   Does spiritual conflict press in on a priest’s life more than that of a lawyer or doctor?

2941.   How important is it to you to be comfortable in what you believe?

2942.   If I have a problem with all the evil in the world, do I also have a problem with all the good?

2943.   How badly do you want to be cocktail-party-comfortable with your religion?

2944.   When did you achieve all-knowledge?

2945.   Are you dangerously open to what may be so?

2946.   Don’t you just hate learning experiences?

2947.   Can liberalism become its own form of fundamentalism?

2948.   Are there any questions about meaning that biology can’t answer?

2949.   Do you consider the great subtlety of spiritual deception?

2950.   Is there a place for humility in atheism?

2951.   Are you tired of our culture’s goddamned reticence to probe spiritual things?

2952.   Who is (your name)?

2953.   Who put you in charge of what’s important?

2954.   Is your life all about avoiding what God has for you?

2955.   Why would universities be the last place, rather than the first place, where ultimate questions are asked?

2956.   Are you game if Jesus calls you to something wonderful and difficult?

2957.   Is Episcopalianism all about being comfortable with what you believe?

2958.   Is a majority opinion an ultimate good?

2959.   Is yours a recreational skepticism?

2960.   Is a true friend your greatest annoyance?

2961.   Is it the foundation of our Republic to get as many people to vote for something as we can?

2962.   Are you left alone by yourself?

2963.   Is the only Truth the Truth of my own making?

2964.   Is the heart of a man changed by politics?

2965.   So, you’re living for what exactly?

2966.   What’s the rationale for NOT killing oneself?

2967.   If God loves you and has plans for you, do you have other plans?

2968.   Do you hide behind your texts?

2969.   Are you a different person when you share privately than when you share publicly?

2970.   How different from your public persona is the private you?

2971.   Is there anything in science to stop genetic innovation?

2972.   What do you think will happen if God lets us have everything we want?

2973.   Are you going to occupy yourself with important, but secondary, matters?

2974.   Do you think there is an expiration date on our democracy?

2975.   Why shouldn’t the center of things be a place of spiritual conflict?

2976.   What are the universal, cross-generational questions?

2977.   What are the current reminders of your mortality?

2978.   Do you ever feel that God is calling you to a greater level of engagement?

2979.   Is there a biological explanation for every perceived transcendent experience?

2980.   How does a calling organize itself in one’s mind and heart over time?

2981.   Can a man live a redemptive life without being redeemed?

2982.   Why not be someone who is unsure but still searching?

2983.   Is evil a spiritual reality before it’s a social problem?

2984.   Hey guy, have you noticed she’s the one asking all the questions?

2985.   Is there always a way of spiritual escape if that’s what you’re looking for?

2986.   Do we hold to the inherent dignity of carbon-based molecules?

2987.   What have you learned about getting things done that you don’t want to do?

2988.   Are you a different person one-on-one than when you’re with a group?

2989.   Is there anything you’re afraid to find out about yourself?

2990.   What are your thoughts on monetizing human fetuses?

2991.   If colleagues have the right to implicitly challenge faith, do others have the right to explicitly defend it?

2992.   O, little man, are you troubled that God would stir your emotion?

2993.   Are you familiar with the story of the three books on the Harvard shield?

2994.   How frustrated should I be with someone who is only playing the cards he was dealt?

2995.   Are you afraid that God would transform you if you said yes?

2996.   Is God calling you to be or do something that you don’t want to be or do?

2997.   Is your atheism pure?

2998.   Is it reason, but also something reasonably beyond reason, that brings one to Christ?

2999.   How would you describe that thing that was indescribably “real” that brought you to God?

3000.   Will you be my brother in Christ?

3001.   Is it a necessary feature of one’s intellectual life to marvel at how much one doesn’t know?

3002.   Is yours a closed story?

3003.   What does spiritual conflict look like for you these days?

3004.   Are you reasonably hard on yourself?

3005.   What are “meaning” and “purpose” but neurological phenomena?

3006.   How to think about God as one person on an incalculably small planet in a vast cosmos?

3007.   Is the preservation of our species reason enough to save the world from climate change?

3008.   Are you stuck in your own decisions that you’ve made about God?

3009.   Is there enough time to serve God?

3010.   Did you become a member of any particular church based on your assessment of it?

3011.   Can you describe the experience of not being able to “go back” to what your life used to be?

3012.   Is modern man Lord of his own life?

3013.   Must gratitude be a denial of our circumstances?

3014.   Can you describe a difficult situation in which gratitude was transformative for you?

3015.   Why do we move away from questions of mortality rather than toward them?

3016.   As a prosecuting attorney is it your job to establish the guilt of someone who may not be guilty?

3017.   Why would you hire a lawyer when there are so many jokes about lawyers being crooks?

3018.   What else is there, religion on my terms?

3019.   In the end does God give you the freedom you desire, even the freedom to reject Him?

3020.   Is the intrusion of Truth your greatest fear?

3021.   As the Christian message claims the antidote to nihilism, does the burden of proof lie with unbelief?

3022.   Will we be so occupied with the needs of living only to discover that we have not lived?

3023.   Is my desire the only moral standard to which my desire should be compared?

3024.   Did history give the Church to you?

3025.   Do your thoughts of it determine the truth of it?

3026.   Is God in the business of disturbing our securities?

3027.   Does the Devil want you to be a humanitarian as long as you don’t face your own sin?

3028.   Will you try to find out if Jesus is speaking the truth about being the Truth?

3029.   What social boxes do you check in order to hold a proper religious position?

3030.   How inconvenient would it be to discover Jesus as the center of reality?

3031.   How is the modern world like the world has always been, and what are its unique features?

3032.   How would you reach the person you were before you came to faith?

3033.   Have you underestimated who Jesus is?

3034.   Is it a good thing that past generations are not able to vote in the present?

3035.   Will anything remain to disappoint us after we achieve perfect equality?

3036.   Why would an old person not speak freely?

3037.   Does something larger than our desires have to guide the expression of our desires?

3038.   Is it convenient to have the “Universe” as your God?

3039.   How do unintentional molecules become intentional?

3040.   Why do civilizations come to an end?

3041.   Are you searching for a church of acceptable truths?

3042.   Must the Truth you discover be acceptable to you?

3043.   Does collective desire establish intrinsic good?

3044.   Is our culture telling your son that he’s unnecessary?

3045.   So that carbon-based life forms can interact to what end?

3046.   Is good intention at the core of totalitarianism?

3047.   Is revelation political philosophy’s greatest problem and gift?

3048.   Why fear global digital surveillance if one has the correct thoughts?

3049.   Do we not ask difficult questions only because of their disturbance factor?

3050.   What happens to us if it all becomes about who has the most power?

3051.   If I have enough people on my side then my truth wins, right?

3052.   Having thrown off God are we left with a power struggle to establish correct thinking?

3053.   Might something be true if its advocates are corrupt?

3054.   Is your life a pursuit of virtue over virtue-signaling?

3055.   Once we’ve started down an “unnatural” road, what’s to stop it?

3056.   How will you respond if God’s intervention in the world has been direct, intentional, and personal?

3057.   Are you a poster boy for modern male noncommitment?

3058.   Where did you come from, and how did you arrive at where you are now?

3059.   Is yours a religious search for a middle way, free of controversy?

3060.   Will you refuse to tell me where I can find good medical treatment because you don’t want to offend me?

3061.   With no God to restrain you, shouldn’t you get everything you want?

3062.   What would it cost you to become a follower of Jesus?

3063.   How can God possibly bring something marvelous out of your greatest difficulty?

3064.   How disorienting would it be for you if the resurrection of Jesus is not a metaphor?

3065.   Why not make an explicit rejection of Jesus Christ right here, right now, at this dinner party?

3066.   Have you experienced the freedom of not knowing?

3067.   Is it possible to retain a primary reference while having rejected it?

3068.   If you’re not having conversations with God, should you start?

3069.   Why do you fear an adventure with God?

3070.   Is a disordered society a collection of disordered individuals?

3071.   If you’re being drawn toward the center of reality, why would you stop short of it?

3072.   What’s your holy purpose?

3073.   Should our greatest fear be that God will give us everything we want?

3074.   Are you looking for a religious system that suits you?

3075.   Even in the university are we now committed to the declarative over the interrogative?

3076.   Is yours a preservation mindset?

3077.   As you have thoughts about ultimate things, will you share them with me?

3078.   Can evolution provide an adequate ethic?

3079.   Do you chase good things at the expense of better things?

3080.   Do you move away from the trouble or toward it?

3081.   Are we afraid of the word “values”?

3082.   Is the expression of your political views, at least implicitly, an attempt to convert others?

3083.   Why would the spirit of God inspire multiple 19th century restorationist movements?

3084.   Just as a human being, making your way through life, will you talk with me about these things?

3085.   What social problems can be solved only by a personal decision to say “no”?

3086.   Are you both repelled by, and drawn toward, the center of things?

3087.   Why ascribe transcendence to a material universe?

3088.   Is it that the State knows best, as long as that State is properly configured?

3089.   At 80 years of age should you be considered less viable than an 8-month old fetus?

3090.   When we finally get rid of God, how will we frame moral reality?

3091.   Is there anything larger than the collective desire that something be true?

3092.   What’s your approach to keeping personal religious conversations at arm’s length?

3093.   How should we think about the social monitoring of “correct thinking”?

3094.   How should we think about desire and the validation of the unnatural?

3095.   Do you think the genetic engineering of children should be considered a right?

3096.   Obligation or opportunity?

3097.   Would you give up stuff for an ultimate good?

3098.   Did you ever think you’d live to see (2023)?

3099.   Why do you have a longing for something more?

3100.   Must movement away from the Center be intentional?

3101.   Is it important to clearly understand what you’re rejecting?

3102.   If there is no God, are we left with majority opinion?

3103.   Does being ill release you into a special freedom to search?

3104.   Does the path of least resistance represent your search for Truth?

3105.   How should we think about intention in evolution?

3106.   Is any act intrinsically good, or only in its perceived effect?

3107.   Do you give yourself permission to think about spiritual things?

3108.   Is the common good what the greatest number of people decide it is?

3109.   Have you ever trusted someone who wasn’t trustworthy?

3110.   Do you show respect and concern for someone by trying to convert them?

3111.   Would you try to convert someone by recommending your doctor?

3112.   Are you acquainted with the “dictatorship of relativism”?

3113.   How will I know if my culture is selling me down the river?

3114.   If it happened the way it says it happened, why would I ignore it?

3115.   When did the university become the last place, rather than the first place, to ask ultimate questions?

3116.   Should implicit political or religious statements receive an explicit reply?

3117.   Has it dawned on you how soon you’re going to be dead?

3118.   Is implicit rejection cowardly?

3119.   When we say someone has a “right” to something, what do we mean?

3120.   Do we have a disordered view of freedom?

3121.   Are you discovering in yourself what keeps you from being most fully yourself?

3122.   How much of friendship is about transparency?

3123.   Are you disappearing into your purposelessness?

3124.   Does evolution speak to the morality of human enslavement?

3125.   What are you being sold materially, philosophically, and spiritually?

3126.   Is being a pure progressive like being a pure Norwegian?

3127.   What’s your primary reference?

3128.   If everyone is a leader now, who are the followers?

3129.   Is it valid because he desires it?

3130.   If gender exists on a continuum, should justice also?

3131.   If God is calling you to a higher thing, are you listening?

3132.   Is God disturbing your religious contentment?

3133.   Have you gone through an entire day without complaint?

3134.   Was Jesus crucified for teaching the Golden Rule?

3135.   What should not be casualized?

3136.   Are all regrets overwhelmed by the present activity of God?

3137.   Are you a nice modern universalist?

3138.   Should you be kind because kindness produces a certain end?

3139.   Is the destruction of the power of death not the most important thing?

3140.   Why would you spend the rest of your life not trying to find out?

3141.   Who decides what “making the world a better place” means?

3142.   Is virtue only expedient?

3143.   Can anything be wrong if enough people want it to be right?

3144.   Are you getting tired of being afraid of something?

3145.   At some point did your knowledge transcend your humility?

3146.   Have you become a person of intellectual certainty?

3147.   Why would you want to spend time with someone who has no doubts?

3148.   Can one live in a position of persuasion and doubt?

3149.   Is approval the first thing you’re seeking?

3150.   Are we seeing an epidemic of self-health?

3151.   Where does philosophy file the Incarnation?

3152.   Do you think it’s true that the more you have to do the more you get done?

3153.   An aging musician loses what and gains what?

3154.   Is there something that you’re hungry for, spiritually?

3155.   What, if anything, does evolution not account for?

3156.   When does one’s awareness of Jesus become a resistance toward him?

3157.   Having encountered Christ, will the rest of your life be about avoiding him?

3158.   Have you been able to escape the thought that maybe part of the problem is you?

3159.   Have you noticed there’s a lot of repetition in this list, along with a fair amount of redundancy?

3160.   When did you become comfortable in the presence of someone else’s tears?

3161.   Does personal autonomy deceive us personally?

3162.   By what authority do you decide that your interpretation of Scripture is authoritative?

3163.   Is your secret life honoring to God?

3164.   Should we be ultimately concerned about something that ultimately disappears?

3165.   Would you ever ask God to show you if you’re a sinner?

3166.   What is virtue but what the majority of people decide?

3167.   Should I trust popular culture to lead me in the right direction spiritually?

3168.   Do physical acts have sacred dimensions?

3169.   Will ideological acquiescence be our legacy?

3170.   What is a legacy, even if the world survives?

3171.   Has your spiritual indifference placed you at risk?

3172.   Can you give me a scientific definition of “meaning”?

3173.   How many decisions in a court of law are made on the basis of “proof”?

3174.   Is God larger than your imperfect choices?

3175.   If something is important to your mother-in-law, does it, by extension, need to be important to you?

3176.   In the modern democracy is Truth determined by what the majority desire?

3177.   Does human dignity disappear with the disappearance of God?

3178.   Does the world’s survival require that men act as though they believe in God even if they don’t?

3179.   What intellectual tools do we utilize to fend off Jesus’ question, “Who do you say that I am?”?

3180.   Is it that God wants to do marvelous things in your life and you won’t let him?

3181.   How does it make intellectual sense to avoid its possibility?

3182.   How do you get through times when it seems clear God has no interest in you?

3183.   How does “Rejoice in the Lord always…” even possibly make sense?

3184.   What is God doing during the time he’s not answering your prayers?

3185.   Are you done with quitting?

3186.   What does meaning mean?

3187.   Why wouldn’t the Devil want you to have a distorted view of it?

3188.   Am I to support both your unbelief and your indifference?

3189.   Is it your strategy to avoid God by calling him The Universe?

3190.   Are you ready to say, “I want nothing to do with Jesus Christ for the rest of my life”?

3191.   If nothing is true, is everything true?

3192.   In your search for Truth, how do you get past Jesus Christ who claimed to be that Truth?

3193.   Is a bigot now someone who disagrees with us?

3194.   Is choosing a religion like buying a suit?….  You find one that fits and looks good on you?

3195.   If Jesus Christ is the center of reality, what does it look like to keep moving toward that center?

3196.   Are you asking me to find meaning where there is no meaning?

3197.   If meaning is a chemical reaction and arguably illusory, how should I think about it?

3198.   Why infantilize the Church by going back to the acorn?

3199.   What happens to you when the questions turn inward?

3200.   How do you picture your death, and what might be your final words?

3201.   Where do the problems begin when you trust only yourself?

3202.   Do you have to go down before you can go up?

3203.   Do we think we can live the Christian life without conversion?

3204.   Can the Christian life be reduced to a practice?

3205.   Did Jesus intend for you to live the Golden Rule without conversion?

3206.   Does atheism lead to a preoccupation with safety?

3207.   Do you think one can build furniture to the glory of God?  What else?

3208.   Is American Christianity about having a successful, prosperous, and comfortable earthly life followed by heavenly bliss?

3209.   How do we navigate the tandem desires for comfort and proper belief?

3210.   Is the modern world encouraging me to find meaning while insisting there is no meaning?

3211.   Did Jesus Christ give guarantees to the Catholic Church that he didn’t give to your church?

3212.   What have you observed about scarcity, abundance, and complaint?

3213.   What’s your relationship with silence?

3214.   In your family do you keep the peace at the price of truth?

3215.   Questions are fearful things, aren’t they?

3216.   Do you have a highly developed sense of being right?

3217.   Do you ask questions so you can learn, or ask questions so you can talk?

3218.   As a pure materialist how do you think about your emotions?

3219.   Can legislation compel a man to say no to himself?

3220.   Do we claim to have retained values while having undercut all foundation for values?

3221.   Do you make definitive statements about the unexplored?

3222.   Will the rest of your life be defined by compromise?

3223.   Does group think constitute primary reference?

3224.   Biologically, what is a meaningful experience?

3225.   If the best questions in life are asked by children, why is that?

3226.   Is a static search for Truth a movement away from it?

3227.   What, if any, is the relationship between societal health and personal transformation?

3228.   Is your American Christian experience about making your life as comfortable as possible and then saying, “Jesus loves me, this I know” ?

3229.   Are you occupied with finding salvation for yourself but not for others?

3230.   Can biology alone account for consciousness?

3231.   Why would the first organisms default to preservation?

3232.   What techniques have you developed to neutralize religious overtures in your direction?

3233.   How much of your Jewishness comes from history rather than myth?

3234.   If God presents us with objective realities, will we still not believe them?

3235.   Have you experienced the cultural tyranny of “first”, “best”, and “most”?

3236.   How do you think about the role of creative outlets in your life?

3237.   Would you say that no matter how long you’ve played the guitar, you’re still “learning to play the guitar”?

3238.   How can something be persuasive without being certain?

3239.   Is your life all buttoned-up, sealed-off tight from any uninvited outside influences?

3240.   Are you going to die single and estranged from your own family?

3241.   Is the Christian life as only the Golden Rule a demonic reduction?

3242.   Does the work of God move beyond the rational without violating the rational?

3243.   Is the grace of God more life-changing than medication?

3244.   What was Moses doing in Midian for forty years?

3245.   Are we to assume that modern scientific thought is unprotected thought?

3246.   Are there some things that scientists don’t want to find out?

3247.   If the Truth cannot be known, can it at least be pursued?

3248.   Is there something I’m missing?

3249.   Are you saying no to an objective reality?

3250.   Do you belittle it because you sense truth is embedded in it?

3251.   Does a Muslim fear those in his own religion?

3252.   Does a truth-seeker give speeches?

3253.   Do you think we access the things of God through beauty?

3254.   Are you refusing to follow Jesus Christ because you’ve received a better offer?

3255.   Does God use beauty to bridge the gap to apprehension?

3256.   Do you grapple with the prospect of your own death, or do you keep putting it off?

3257.   Is it not a grace that God’s mercy is extended to you in this moment?

3258.   How should we think about subjective experiences and objective reference?

3259.   In the pursuit of wisdom is the modern university increasingly irrelevant?

3260.   When does knowledge become wisdom?

3261.   How long have you been a spiritual coward?

3262.   How does one disrupt the spiritual inertia of the modern world?

3263.   Will you say that despair is the final word when God says it isn’t?

3264.   Are you going to show Jesus Christ the courtesy of an explicit rejection?

3265.   Is God larger than all the things that didn’t happen in the past?

3266.   Does your bad experience as a Catholic invalidate the Catholic Church just like your previous bad experience in marriage invalidates the institution of marriage?

3267.   While we’re solving the gun problem, will we also be solving the problems of loneliness, meaninglessness, hopelessness, and despair?

3268.   If Jesus wasn’t crucified for being a great humanitarian, is humanitarianism itself therefore inadequate?

3269.   Why this expectation that, having come to believe in something, one should already know everything about it?

3270.   As with Moses in Midian, is it the absence of something that prepares you to engage it?

3271.   Do you think your life should be about avoiding certain questions?

3272.   Are you interested in reinforcing the world’s misunderstandings of the Christian message?

3273.   Might the redemptive intervention of God make one truly alive?

3274.   Is there too much comedy in the grace of God for one to be depressed?

3275.   Do you allow yourself to find satisfaction in small accomplishments?

3276.   In the ocean is it called a tuna fish?

3277.   At the core of the Christian message do we substitute principles for person?

3278.   Retired from what to do what?

3279.   Do Americans now take pride in doing their work poorly?

3280.   When did good medical care become a right rather than a gift?

3281.   A hundred years from now, what will they say we got wrong?

3282.   Is it the great indictment of the modern age that we don’t bother to look?

3283.   Does civilization come to an end when you can no longer say “no” to yourself?

3284.   Can social justice and individual autonomy co-exist?

3285.   Does materialism trap you in a view of yourself that not even you believe?

3286.   How does my own brokenness contribute to a broken world?

3287.   If it’s true, how can it not be everything?

3288.   Is a right a desire realized?

3289.   Are you trying to get through life as comfortably as possible?

3290.   Is it the case, in the end, that either God is God or you are God?

3291.   Do your personal values supersede all other values?

3292.   Virtue without God?

3293.   Should resistance toward moving toward the center be resisted?

3294.   Should we not expect to respond emotionally to the truth of things?

3295.   Are your theories about life running up against your personal experience of it?

3296.   How would you begin a spiritual conversation with the person you were a few years ago?

3297.   Is anything more important than what I desire to be so?

3298.   Is it your greatest fear that God will put his finger on all your plans?

3299.   And why would we not talk about meaning?

3300.   How do you cope with cemeteries?

3301.   Is your life organized around a central thing?

3302.   Do the best friendships contain disagreements?

3303.   Is any firmly held belief extremist?

3304.   Is there anything more dangerous than a humble man who asks questions?

3305.   Did you have any transcendent experiences as a child that you’re avoiding in adulthood?

3306.   Are we dealing in myth and subjectivity, or history and objectivity?

3307.   Do you draw upon your own authority to establish authority?

3308.   Is your own life a laboratory for researching what’s wrong with the world?

3309.   Is the will of the people our primary reference?

3310.   At what cost, the protection of ideas?

3311.   Is the only sin you’re not able to see your own?

3312.   If everyone is a coach, who are the players?

3313.   Can you describe how you began to see your spiritual need?

3314.   Are you the expert on there being no truth?

3315.   Is America now governed by collective desire?

3316.   If there is a God, why is there so much evil in the world?  If there is no God, why is there so much good in the world?

3317.   But if God is calling you to do it, why wouldn’t that be the best thing to do?

3318.   Is your life an exercise in missing the point?

3319.   Have you noticed there’s a lot of redundancy here, apart from the repetition?

3320.   As death approaches, is truth more interesting?

3321.   Is it wrong for you to suggest that I’m wrong about something?

3322.   What if we don’t care enough about anything to save anything?

3323.   Having dispensed with God, has the progressive project sealed its own fate?

3324.   Is our greatest negligence our disregard for ultimate things?

3325.   How do I square Catholic hand-wringing with Christ’s promise to sustain the Church?

3326.   Does evolution encourage both altruism and survival of the fittest?

3327.   More than your intellect, is it the hardness of your heart that keeps you from God?

3328.   Does evolution provide adequate incentive for altruism?

3329.   Is making primary goods of secondary goods the fatal flaw of progressivism?

3330.   Is avoidance ever the noble path?

3331.   If “changing the world” means changing it for the better, who decides what that means?

3332.   Is there anything in your life you don’t want God to put his finger on?

3333.   Do you prefer a different holiday location each time, or the same location?

3334.   Why would one not adjust one’s life to the truth one discovers?

3335.   What is the relationship between proof and evidence in a court of law?

3336.   Peace at what cost?

3337.   Is there an expiration date on any society that justifies the consumption of pornography?

3338.   Has your search for Truth collapsed into a guarded cynicism?

3339.   Why is it difficult to ask questions that get close to the human heart?

3340.   What reference is there apart from the majority vote of a people?

3341.   Is the truth of the matter that you know damn well you’re avoiding God?

3342.   Is there enough humor in the grace of God to alleviate depression?

3343.   Are there political answers to philosophical questions?

3344.   Should we install a restrictor plate on individual freedoms?

3345.   Can we find what we’re not looking for?

3346.   Do you see the deflection of responsibility present in your life?

3347.   Is the common good established from the top-down?

3348.   Do you locate the problems of the world in the “other”?

3349.   Don’t you hate that, when God gets personal?

3350.   How much tolerance can a civilization survive?

3351.   Is God as “The Universe” malleable?

3352.   Does choice extend to monetizing the womb?

3353.   Do you fear or welcome fissures in your material view?

3354.   Is spiritual urgency pressing in on you?

3355.   Couldn’t we argue that at least talking about it is an important thing?

3356.   Is there more going on than you want to know about?

3357.   Could “making the world a better place” mean getting rid of a particular group?

3358.   Do the claims of Christ put you in the wonderful position of having to prove him wrong?

3359.   Why curse the only name that can save you?

3360.   As the truth moves toward you, do you try to keep it away?

3361.   Is there a power in the world that wants to profane the name of Jesus, and is using you to do it?

3362.   Is a lot of life about just getting tired of not doing the things you should?

3363.   Your perspectives on achievement?

3364.   Have you considered the extraordinary ordinariness of the Incarnation?

3365.   Do you believe in restricted tolerance?

3366.   Is tolerance an absolute?

3367.   Having dismissed the absolute, is relativism now the absolute?

3368.   Is intolerance the only thing we won’t tolerate?

3369.   If my culture is selling me a spiritual lie, why shouldn’t I be angry?

3370.   Will your pride be your final refusal of God?

3371.   If you have served in the corridors of power did you notice anything missing?

3372.   Does civilizational survival require intolerance?

3373.   As an academic, what’s your relationship with certainty?

3374.   Do we imagine that truth is easily welcomed?

3375.   Can society be redeemed without personal redemption?

3376.   Is it the modern world’s greatest problem that Jesus Christ is not a myth?

3377.   Should a pet be allowed spousal benefits?

3378.   What is the sand that modern political systems are built upon?

3379.   Does it make sense that something objectively so might be felt?

3380.   If cynicism is all you have to offer, why wouldn’t I keep searching?

3381.   Do you carry a presumption of final knowledge on any particular subject?

3382.   Do you need to have some conversations that aren’t electronic?

3383.   Is my happiness the greatest good?

3384.   Why do you hide behind your phone?

3385.   Are you better at asking or telling?

3386.   How do we think about insulation from any particular perspective?

3387.   Did the university get out of the wisdom business?

3388.   Is anything actually wrong, or just relatively wrong?

3389.   Is your purpose in life to get through it?

3390.   Is something “true” because it “works” for you?

3391.   Will a new guitar make you happy?

3392.   Is it the role of the state to quantify our desires?

3393.   Is it your closely held belief that belief is irrational?

3394.   As you question the belief system of another, do you also question your own?

3395.   Is the forgiveness of God for everyone but you?

3396.   Do you avoid the crucifixion of Christ because there’s something about you in it?

3397.   Do you think we can have it all?

3398.   Do you know anyone who has suffered great trauma and still has faith in God?

3399.   Do you go around challenges rather than through the center of them?

3400.   When are you going to reconcile with so-and-so, and what’s that going to take?

3401.   What am I supposed to do, answer my own questions?

3402.   Do all men on their deathbeds ask the same questions?

3403.   Are you saying that “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” knows nothing of your situation?

3404.   So, how exactly are you retired but not thinking about your relationship with God?

3405.   What is the spiritual accountability aspect of knowledge?

3406.   Have you ever asked God to show you if you’re a sinner?

3407.   Is God’s call on your life contrary to your intellect, or consistent with it?

3408.   What do “steps of faith” look like for you at this stage of your journey?

3409.   Have you made an informed rejection of Jesus Christ, or some half-assed rejection?

3410.   If you developed a serious medical condition right now, who would take care of you?

3411.   How do you think about the sacredness of actions?

3412.   Do you understand what you’re criticizing, or have you safely made a caricature of it?

3413.   Is it easy to caricature the Christian message when you don’t know what the hell it is?

3414.   Is your life all about pointing out what’s wrong with the world?

3415.   Has your skepticism also imprisoned you?

3416.   How much of you doesn’t want it to be True?

3417.   Who put you in charge of deciding if someone is a believer?

3418.   Is it your job to call people to faith, or to decide if they have it?

3419.   When you’re soloing, and looking at the fretboard, what are you seeing?

3420.   Is it possible for a man to have everything, and yet nothing?

3421.   Would you want to have a gifted child?

3422.   What’s your experience with trying to perfectly schedule your life?

3423.   How do you manage a life that defies perfect scheduling?

3424.   Do most people patronize Jesus, rather than reject him outright, because they fear the whole thing might be true?

3425.   In terms of aging and wisdom, should your contribution to the world wind up rather than wind down?

3426.   Do Christians who no longer go to church embody the fullest expression of the Protestant idea?

3427.   Is there a cultural conformity that the world is asking of you?

3428.   Is your church becoming what the New York Times wants it to be?

3429.   If there are counterfeits of Christian spirituality, what do they look like?

3430.   Should you respect your convictions more than you respect my decisions?

3431.   Is it the nature of tolerance to tolerate and not celebrate?

3432.   Don’t you love “values”, they’re so malleable?

3433.   Is modern freedom tasked with the normalization of extremes?

3434.   Can a civilization survive a multiplicity of truth claims?

3435.   Is the state raising your children?

3436.   Is it the role of progressivism to normalize extremes?

3437.   What is a life properly ordered?

3438.   Are you going to follow Jesus Christ, or do you have a better offer?

3439.   If the world is in a spiritual battle, will popular culture guide you on the proper path?

3440.   Are toleration and celebration by nature different?

3441.   At this point, who do you have in your life who will ask you the difficult questions?

3442.   If we are purely material beings, should we welcome our end as much as our beginning?

3443.   How is the world changed by one who remains unchanged?

3444.   Are those most opposed to the message of Christ often those in whom God is most at work?

3445.   Was Jesus crucified for his “values”?

3446.   Are just laws efficacious, or even possible, in a society that values individual autonomy over individual virtue?

3447.   Has virtue been lost in the language of rights?

3448.   Has the gospel deteriorated into the Golden Rule?

3449.   How much of a departure from the natural will we accept, and even encourage?

3450.   What occupies your thoughts?

3451.   Do you love the praise of men more than the praise of God?

3452.   If there is a God, what follows?

3453.   What are your spiritual circumstances?

3454.   What are you exploring to challenge your current position of unbelief?

3455.   How much of a departure from the natural can a civilization survive?

3456.   Are your closely held beliefs based on unexamined views?

3457.   If God is pursuing you, how far will you run?

3458.   To be all in, what must be left out?

3459.   Are you an intellectual and a fool?

3460.   Don’t you love the uncertainty of it… wondering if maybe you’ve missed something?

3461.   How do you keep praying about something that never seems to change?

3462.   Do we want to change the world without ourselves being changed?

3463.   What good are the things of God if they’re not also the things of the gaps?

3464.   Is there a moral order independent of our desires?

3465.   Is God larger than our wrong turns in life?

3466.   Does morality change based on opinion?

3467.   If God called you to do something, would you welcome it?

3468.   Are you familiar with the radical nature of Catholic life?

3469.   Do you think there is a fundamental reason why you are single?

3470.   Do you think the world would be a better place if the Catholic Church and its influence were removed entirely?

3471.   What is the higher good you are proposing?

3472.   If the Catholic Church disappeared, would the dignity of the human person be sustained?

3473.   Does reconciliation call for something from you as well as from God?

3474.   How much about you do you not want to be found out?

3475.   Is your belief in it what validates it?

3476.   Is there a norm against which we measure all departures from the norm?

3477.   Do we desire our rights above all things?

3478.   Have you noticed that, when you take a trip to get away from life, you take yourself with you?

3479.   What do you imagine your last words will be?

3480.   How do you and I contribute to the brokenness of the world?

3481.   Does the modern university train us in wisdom, or group think?

3482.   Have we made politics our primary good?

3483.   If we make a primary good of a secondary good, will it betray even those who benefit from it?

3484.   Do we say something is “wrong” because it’s wrong in our opinion?

3485.   Do myths have binding precepts or objective concerns?

3486.   Modern multiple options at what cost?

3487.   Are we forced to find the transcendent in the purely material?

3488.   What’s the difference between sharing someone’s burden and solving someone’s burden?

3489.   If we’re not praying for the impossible, what are we praying for?

3490.   Does the death of Jesus on the cross for the forgiveness of sins become a problem only when it’s my sins we’re talking about?

3491.   What if Christianity is not about values, but transformation?

3492.   Is modern culture throwing off every means by which it could secure its survival?

3493.   Has disagreement become bigotry?

3494.   Is the Church at odds with the world by its very nature?

3495.   Is it ChatGPT that cheats?

3496.   What if God isn’t whatever you imagine God to be?

3497.   How might you best be a friend to your friends?

3498.   What ARE you going to spend the rest of your life doing?

3499.   Is the religious/philosophical foundation upon which the United States was established the very thing we have rejected?

3500.   At the end of your life, what will you wish you had done more of?

3501.   Who’s in charge of proper thinking?

3502.   If life has no ultimate significance, what is its temporal significance?

3503.   Are you afraid to get too close for what it might ask of you?

3504.   What is it about the nature of sin that it wants to be hidden?

3505.   And who will tell me that I cannot have what I want?

3506.   Is yours a love that does not take fear seriously?

3507.   Is your search for God restricted by your fear of proximity?

3508.   If you don’t believe in God, in the face of evil, who do you complain to?

3509.   Do you finally feel like an adult?

3510.   Is the system of beauty in the Episcopal church a substitute for what is not there?

3511.   As a Protestant, why was it given to me to choose where true doctrine is taught?

3512.   How many unnatural acts can a civilization endure?

3513.   Would a sense of God’s calling on your life, even if imagined, be better than your current experience?

3514.   Are you engaged in spiritual risk management?

3515.   What are your earliest memories?

3516.   Do you think you have a better thing going on right now than you would if God were in charge of your life?

3517.   What is life like for those who understand and embrace the gospel as a spiritual reality?

3518.   Why aren’t you married?  Have you never wanted anyone to get that close to you?

3519.   Is Jesus as myth the great modern hope?

3520.   Is the world kind of the same everywhere?

3521.   If we think the gospel is about the Golden Rule are we mishandling the message?

3522.   Should our desires supersede natural design?

3523.   Is what we’re seeing our progressive end?

3524.   Do you regret having never married?

3525.   What are your informed convictions?

3526.   Is “Me’ism” the final authority?

3527.   Is there any final antidote for “Me’ism”?

3528.   Why would the Church expect to retain popular influence when it has always been, by its nature, a subversive presence?

3529.   What if the call remains, quite apart from your response to it?

3530.   What, in this life, does “the Lord’s help” mean?

3531.   Is there something going on spiritually even in those for whom we think nothing is going on?

3532.   The needle on a moral compass points where?

3533.   What are your conversations with God like these days?

3534.   Are you afraid to have conversations with God?

3535.   Do you need an interior change?

3536.   What would full spiritual engagement look like?

3537.   When does desire justify practice?

3538.   Is there a first and last important thing?

3539.   Is “its effect on others” our last remaining moral constraint?

3540.   Then what happens, after the Progressive Project achieves the perfection of man?

3541.   Have fundamental human questions been lost in the language of rights?

3542.   In the modern world, does the toleration of require the celebration of?

3543.   Does the collective establish proper thinking?

3544.   As norms shift, do references shift?

3545.   Is an agreed upon truth true?

3546.   Why is it always the other person who’s a hater?

3547.   Does slavery, without a primary reference, have any moral content?

3548.   Do we have any idea how desperately lonely people are?

3549.   Have you been so foolish in your life that God cannot now provide for you?

3550.   How does subjective experience arise from purely objective science?

3551.   Does the entire cosmos compress itself into the one-on-one moment?

3552.   What have you got to lose besides your hard-assed opinion?

3553.   Are we asking universities to appeal to moral references that they, and all of western culture, abandoned years ago?

3554.   Is Jesus asking us for something more than ethical behavior?

3555.   Are God’s plans for you finally ruined by your bad decisions?

3556.   As an artist, how do you think about “mistakes” in your sketches?

3557.   How do you think about masculinity and femininity?

3558.   What is a lecture, and what is a question, in teaching?

3559.   Now that you’re retired, do you have time to think about it?

3560.   What unexamined arguments allow you to sit undisturbed with your beer?

3561.   How honest am I about what I’m protecting in my spiritual life?

3562.   So, let me get this straight….  questions of eternal significance are unimportant to you?

3563.   Is it true that, in the end, the only thing that can stop you from doing what you shouldn’t do is you?

3564.   Is “do no harm” the foundation for morality?

3565.   What would make you genuinely happy?

3566.   What is natural, and what are our departures from it?

3567.   Do you have hope in God, or are you just trying to get through your life?

3568.   Do you want your life to be more than life is?

3569.   What fears in your life are you trying to work through?

3570.   Is all difference between men and women eroding at our peril?

3571.   Do you know of any Christian who became a Muslim after seeing a vision of Muhammad?

3572.   Does God have spiritual plans for your long-term friendships?

3573.   What is to be gained by doing the thing you fear?

3574.   Will you change the world without changing yourself?

3575.   If the Catholic Church represents restraint in our culture, what happens if we throw off that restraint?

3576.   Should we monetize the production of fetuses for research purposes?

3577.   Does your “no” (to Jesus) need a better reason than you’ve given it so far?

3578.   How much is enough?

3579.   If you’re not worshiping God are you worshiping yourself?

3580.   Why invest so much energy in avoiding Catholic thought and practice?

3581.   So, you incorporate Catholic prayers and practices and reject Catholicism?

3582.   Do you see realism and faith as incompatible?

3583.   But isn’t the world the same everywhere?

3584.   Has the modern world denied the very thing it’s trying to find?

3585.   Do you think it’s possible that God is trying to get your attention?

3586.   An explicit rejection of Jesus or some half-assed avoidance?

3587.   Are you a hard shell with a soft center, or vice versa?

3588.   Are you quick to explain to your children that love is just a neurochemical reaction?

3589.   How much of love is about saying what you’re actually thinking?

3590.   When we think of those things to come, how can we not be animated now?

3591.   Among you and your friends is there a tacit agreement that you will all embrace a similar political and religious worldview?

3592.   Does tacit agreement make for a boring dinner?

3593.   Is your situation with God sealed off from further investigation?

3594.   If religious faith is narrow-minded, what is materialism?

3595.   Has God asked too much of you?

3596.   How long am I supposed to sit here without asking you real questions about your life?

3597.   Is your culture asking you to embrace innovated moral positions that you would have never imagined even a few years ago?

3598.   Is prostitution intrinsically wrong?

3599.   Would it be better to make a mistake about God’s existence than to make a mistake about God’s non-existence?

3600.   As you age, how much of you is opening up and how much of you is closing down?

3601.   Does embracing change mean embracing the cultural narrative?

3602.   Is the evolutionary argument for altruism convincing?

3603.   Is it your calling to point out everything that’s wrong with the world?

3604.   Does getting married pose a danger to your life-style?

3605.   Is progressivism doomed to self-reference?

3606.   Are there some truths we should not speak?

3607.   Is it possible your problems are spiritual rather than pharmaceutical?

3608.   Is the Protestant Reformation responsible for modern hyper-individualism?

3609.   Is correct biblical interpretation finally your own?

3610.   If music can serve a purpose, can it be a purpose?

3611.   Are you acquainted with the Women Doctors of the Church?

3612.   Is a civilization saved apart from the collective transformation of individuals?

3613.   “Where” do you go with your friend to deepen your friendship?

3614.   Why should the Church not be the target of every demonic scheme?

3615.   Are modern civilizational values searching for a Magnetic North?

3616.   Has the Devil already taken you out of the game?

3617.   Has the Devil led you down the “truth is an illusion” rabbit hole?

3618.   Why should a culture attach values to a God they believe to be dead?

3619.   Does any civilization fold that conflates tolerance with endorsement?

3620.   What happens when 51 out of 100 people decide that’s NOT what “makes the world a better place”?

3621.   Can the Church and the world be finally reconciled?

3622.   What good is the (U)niversity?

3623.   If there’s a God, what follows?

3624.   Pros and cons of pills for depression?

3625.   Is the university a safe space from ultimate questions?

3626.   Is it that the gospel has been tried and found wanting, or that it has not been tried?

3627.   Is the burden of faith on history, or on you?

3628.   Do you move only within the circle of your own design?

3629.   Is morality a collective decision?

3630.   Why would the first micro-organism choose replication over dissolution?

3631.   Were you once on a search for God that somehow got walled off?

3632.   How did order emerge from disorder?

3633.   If court cases are not decided on the basis of proof, should we abandon our judicial system?

3634.   What are your current struggles?

12/05/2023

To be continued…