THE FIFTY QUESTIONS

1. What does it mean to have faith? 
2. What does it mean to believe? 
3. How certain must one be? 
4. Can we simply choose to believe? 
5. What is meant by ultimate truth? 
6. Why is there so much diversity within Christianity?
7. Why do religions describe ultimate reality differently? 
8. What is the source of religious experience? 
9. What is the relationship between religion and science? 
10. Why do people pray? 
11. Does god have a plan for everyone? 
12. What do nonbelievers believe? 
13. What is the nature of the divine?
14. Why do so many people believe in so many gods?
15. Is God a personal being?
16. What does God look like?
17. What counts as evidence for God?
18. What are the arguments for God's existence? 
19. Who was the historical Jesus? 
20. How do we know what Jesus actually said? 
21. Who was the historical Mary?
22. What makes a book sacred?
23. How did a collection of writings become the Bible?
24. Is the bible history, symbol, or both? 
25. How have the stories in the Bible been interpreted.
26. What Bible stories aren't actually in the Bible? 
27. How do children understand Bible stories?
28. How does the Bible define the roles of women and men? 
29. How does the Bible define sex and gender?
30. Who gets into heaven? 
31. Does salvation depend on where we were born? 
32. Does any part of us survive death? 
33. Can the dead be raised to live again? 
34. What do religions say about Heaven and Hell?
35. What is the problem of evil?
36. Who or what is the Devil? 
37. Are humans guilty from birth?
38. Do we need to be saved, and if so, from what?
39. Where do moral values come from?
40. Should religious belief shape public policy?
41. Do politicians speak for God?
42. What is Christian nationalism?
43. Does God intervene in politics?
44. What does it mean to be persecuted for one's faith? 
45. Can people with different beliefs learn to live and let live?
46. Are human beings violent by nature?
  47. How can we learn to live together in a time of great uncertainty? 
48. What does it mean to be “woke”? 
49. Why do people divide into “us versus them”? 
50. What have we discovered?