Countdown Day 61

Paradigms and dogma can be defended and enforced with guns and prisons, bullets and bonfires, threats and humiliations, fatwas and excommunications. But paradigms and dogmas remain profoundly vulnerable when anomalies are present. They can be undone by something as simple as a question. (16)

From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)