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Pam Orr

I love to read! I have baskets of books scattered in strategic places around my home - strategically placed next to all comfortable chairs.
A wonderfully, replenishing day for me contains unhurried time and space to linger with a book or three and a coffee or three!
I am really thrilled to be able to review books for Rectrix. Living in Chicago, it gives me a great way to be involved.
I hope these reviews might cause you to pick up books you would not otherwise.
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The Sacredness of Questioning Everything
By David Dark

Spend any amount of time with a 5 year old and you quickly learn that fielding questions, particularly the often asked, “why?” will consume most of the dialogue between the two of you.  You will most likely grow weary of the banter back and forth between question and answer long before your young companion tires of asking questions.  Children have a natural curiosity that makes asking questions as automatic as breathing in and out.  But somewhere along the road between being five and being an adult we lose this natural desire to question.  We lose the boldness and courage to ask “why.” 

David Dark, in his latest book, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, beckons us to uncover the heart of a child within us and dare to question what we either dare not or choose not to question.  And…he starts big with his first chapter, Questioning God.  Is what we believe to be true of God, really so true?  Are we open to the fact that we may not see God as clearly as we think we do?

Dark illustrates the role of questions when he describes questions as “cracks”. 

“…there are cracks in absolutely everything…The cracks are how the light shines in, and it is only by remaining aware of our imperfections that we remain open to redemption and reform.  When we have questions, illumination is possible.  Otherwise we’re closed and no light can enter.”

As Dark leads us through questioning religion, our passions, the media, governments and the future, he clarifies repeatedly that we ask questions not just for the sake of the question, but we ask so that we can be “transformed by the renewing of our minds.”

Whether you’re naturally inquisitive or more inclined to shy away from asking the question that “opens a can of worms”, this book is a great reminder of the danger of a stagnant faith.  I absolutely loved Dark’s writing style and his call to “question everything!”  You will not be the same, you will not think the same should you choose to go on this journey with Dark.