{"id":537,"date":"2011-02-07T13:18:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2011\/02\/an-invitation-to-question-jesus.html"},"modified":"2011-02-07T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:18:07","slug":"an-invitation-to-question-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2011\/02\/an-invitation-to-question-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation to Question Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/questionmark-thumb-200x200-17841-thumb-200x200-17842-thumb-200x200-18026-thumb-200x200-18145-thumb-200x200-18245-thumb-200x200-18818-thumb-200x200-18940.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for questionmark.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/113\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/questionmark-thumb-200x200-17841-thumb-200x200-17842-thumb-200x200-18026-thumb-200x200-18145-thumb-200x200-18245-thumb-200x200-18818-thumb-200x200-18940-thumb-200x200-19165.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/questionmark-thumb-200x200-17841-thumb-200x200-17842-thumb-200x200-18026-thumb-200x200-18145-thumb-200x200-18245-thumb-200x200-18818-thumb-200x200-18940.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><font color=\"#0000EE\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/font><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over the course of the fall, I ran a series of posts called &#8220;Questions for Jesus.&#8221; Recently, I worked with the editors at beliefnet to turn those posts into a &#8220;gallery&#8221;&#8211;a slide show of sorts with various questions that people ask Jesus throughout the gospels and Jesus&#8217; response to them. You can check it out here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/Christianity\/2011\/Questions-for-Jesus.aspx\">Questions for Jesus<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of the fall, I ran a series of posts called &#8220;Questions for Jesus.&#8221; Recently, I worked with the editors at beliefnet to turn those posts into a &#8220;gallery&#8221;&#8211;a slide show of sorts with various questions that people ask Jesus throughout the gospels and Jesus&#8217; response to them. 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