Has it ever happened to you? Someone asks a question. You don’t really know the answer. But we feel the urge to say something. Anything. Sometimes out of pride we make up an answer. Maybe something we heard on YouTube. Maybe something overheard on the street. It may or may not be accurate. But who cares? We needed to fill the silent void.
I was trained to write with certainty, to develop an argument, to be persuasive. And to speak that way. Even when I am throwing out an idea expecting pushback and discussion, people take it as definitive. End of discussion.
Sometimes we need to say “I don’t know. What do you think?” Sometimes just a simple I don’t know:
When someone asks how a virus spreads…
When someone asks how to interpret a difficult Greek text…
When someone asks about politics…
When someone asks, why God…
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