This week’s blog is sponsored by Reformation Heritage Books and written by Simonetta Carr—who encourages you to keep asking questions. Be sure to take a look at her new book Questions Women Asked.
Unending Questions
Kids ask a lot of questions. According to a 2013 British study by Littlewoods.com, girls do so more than boys, asking as many as 390 questions per day based on a thousand participants. Eighty-two percent of these questions are addressed to mothers. A quarter of the children said they would go first to their mother because their father would say, “Ask your mum.”
If this study is correct, mothers start their lives asking questions and are still dealing with a huge number of questions when many other adults have grown out of the habit of frequent asking.
Inquisitive Women
While most of the women in my book, Questions Women Asked, were not seen as theologians, their questions helped more famous theologians carefully examine their own answers. In the fourth century, Marcella of Rome approached Jerome (translator of the Latin Vulgate) with her numerous questions, insisting “in season and out of season” despite his initial rejection.
She was not the only woman to
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