Questions

The rooms: The Practice · The Readings · Questions · The Front Room. Before you write · Write a letter.

Letters are read before they are printed. You write, and then you wait, and a reply comes the way a reply to a letter comes: in days, not minutes.

Some questions never get asked out loud.

Not because they are wrong to ask. Because of the room. Ask why God stays quiet in the year you needed him most, in a room full of people who look settled, and you learn quickly to keep it to yourself. So the question goes home in the car with you and gets asked at two in the morning, to a ceiling.

Ask it here instead.

Anything honest belongs in this room: about God, about Jesus, about prayer that seems to go nowhere, about the parts of scripture that are hard to stomach, about doubt that has sat down beside you and stayed for years. We do not claim to know what we do not know. We would rather tell you plainly that we cannot answer than hand you something shaped like an answer.

The one thing this room is not for is scoring. A question asked to trap somebody is not a question.

One question to open the room, and it can be yours: what have you been carrying that you have never said out loud?

The letters

Nothing has come in yet. Somebody has to go first, and there is no shame in being the one who does.