We’ll find the right answers only if we start asking questions again

Who can grudge anyone the desire to find some apparently secure port when life gets stormy? At moments of crisis, however, such certainties can be, quite literally, lethal. If I have no doubts at all about my own position, and you express doubts about it, you become a living offence to everything I stand for

DOUBT has had an undeservedly bad press down the centuries.

Two thousand years ago, the apostle Thomas got a dusty response from a very high authority because he demanded hard evidence for the resurrection. His name has been a by-word for wishy-washy unreliability ever since. Not a sound man, doubting Thomas.