“If women are supposed to be under the leadership of men at all times, what about Deborah who led a nation?”

“Isn’t Vashti in the story of Esther doing right when she refuses to be objectified?”

These were the types of questions that an adolescent Meghan Tschanz asked at church. She thought she was trying to understand her Bible, but the response she heard told her she was doing something far different.

“Are you even a Christian?” adults asked her. “You ask far too many questions.”

So, Tschanz tried to turn her questions off. But years later, as she began to work with sexually exploited women overseas, she couldn’t keep quiet any longer.

“If we go to Scripture,” Tschanz writes. “We see that the Bible does not hide from hard subjects, but we do.”

What Tschanz realized is true for you, too. Your honest questions about the Bible are not only allowed by God—they are welcomed and encouraged.