queerlychristian:

“German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno once said, ‘To let suffering speak is the condition of all truth.’ If the Bible’s war stories reveal the perils of letting God’s children tell the story, then the Bible’s wisdom stories uncover the beauty of it, the necessity. 

In the paradox of Job, the vulnerability of the Psalms, and the angst of Ecclesiastes, God’s children are invited into the whirlwind, to cry out and question, to demand and debate, and to consider the big questions of life without resting in easy answers.

The Bible reflects the complexity and diversity of the human experience, with  all its joys and sorrows. And in the story of Job, it’s not the learned theologians who get the peek at glory, but the man who said, with candor and courage, ‘I desire to argue with God.’”

– Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again