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Questions of Faith

Thomas A. Robinson
Weight 10.1 oz
Dimensions 6 × .432 × 9 in
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Thomas A. Robinson
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If we look at Holy Scripture, we see an important pattern: that many of our most important lessons come to us upon the tail of a special question — a question of faith. And if we listen closely to those around us, we discover that our faith is also formed and strengthened through questions of faith that are offered by those who travel with us along the Way. Indeed, questions of faith are marvelous. While they almost always elicit answers, those answers often are ones that we don’t expect.

In Questions of Faith, Tom Robinson has crafted a collection of reflections that flow from questions of faith. Pulled from an informal journal that he has maintained since 1986, when he and his family moved to Durham, NC in order that he could attend Divinity School at Duke, they vary in length and style. Three-quarters of the reflections spring from questions found in Holy Scripture, one-fourth from the tongues of loved ones. Robinson posits that if you examine your own journey of faith, you will see that questions have been an important part of your own framework of faith.

Robinson adds that most of us are an admixture of faith and doubt, a blend of absolute assurance and utter confusion. We sometimes feel a bit like the father of the boy who was filled with the evil spirit [see Mark 9:17 et seq.]. Jesus says to the man — and to us — “All things can be done for the one who believes.” Like the father, we cry out, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). The One who gave up His life for us is always happy to oblige! Thanks be to God!

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If we look at Holy Scripture, we see an important pattern: that many of our most important lessons come to us upon the tail of a special question — a question of faith. And if we listen closely to those around us, we discover that our faith is also formed and strengthened through questions of faith that are offered by those who travel with us along the Way. Indeed, questions of faith are marvelous. While they almost always elicit answers, those answers often are ones that we don’t expect.

In Questions of Faith, Tom Robinson has crafted a collection of reflections that flow from questions of faith. Pulled from an informal journal that he has maintained since 1986, when he and his family moved to Durham, NC in order that he could attend Divinity School at Duke, they vary in length and style. Three-quarters of the reflections spring from questions found in Holy Scripture, one-fourth from the tongues of loved ones. Robinson posits that if you examine your own journey of faith, you will see that questions have been an important part of your own framework of faith.

Robinson adds that most of us are an admixture of faith and doubt, a blend of absolute assurance and utter confusion. We sometimes feel a bit like the father of the boy who was filled with the evil spirit [see Mark 9:17 et seq.]. Jesus says to the man — and to us — “All things can be done for the one who believes.” Like the father, we cry out, “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). The One who gave up His life for us is always happy to oblige! Thanks be to God!

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Weight 10.1 oz
Dimensions 6 × .432 × 9 in
Author

Thomas A. Robinson

Thomas A. Robinson

Thomas A. Robinson received his B.A., cum laude, in both Economics and History in 1973 from Wake Forest University, his J.D. in 1976, from Wake Forest University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor, Wake Forest Law Review, and his M.Div. in 1989, from Duke University Divinity School. From 1976 to 1986, Tom was in private law practice, focusing on workers’ compensation defense work. In 1986, he and his family moved to Durham, N.C., in order that he could matriculate at Duke Divinity School. Intending to stay in Durham for three years and then return to Western North Carolina, Tom and Jane have lived in the Bull City now for 32 years (and counting).

For the past 30 years, Tom has attempted a delicate balancing act — mixing an active professional “secular” life with the sacred. A nationally-recognized legal scholar and writer in the field of occupational injuries and illnesses, Robinson is co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the preeminent legal treatise on the subject. For many years, he also handled copyright and publication matters for Duke University School of Law, Duke University Press, and the American Institute of CPAs.

Since graduating from Duke Divinity School, Tom has carved out significant time for the sacred, first as a part-time local pastor at Asbury UMC (Durham, NC, 1987-1993), then as pastor/teacher for the Riverside Gathering (a post-denominational congregation without walls, centered in Durham, NC, 1993 to the present), and as an ”ex officio” preaching/teaching resource at Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church (Durham, NC, 2002 to the present).

Known by friends as a master of the poignant tale, Robinson has rarely met a story that he didn’t love.

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“Tom Robinson’s wise and moving book touches the mind and the heart.  For me, perhaps the most memorable feature of a book that is rich with things worth remembering is the mix of people you meet and the experiences you share:  Bunny and ‘Not Good Enough,’ Mr. Hardman, the history teacher and a certain ‘crazy, weird, special class,’ the dress that linked a young woman to her grandmother ‘across the face of Death itself,’ the dying girl who laughed when asked how she knew it was Jesus who had visited her:  ‘Oh silly – I can always tell by his voice.’  What brings them all together, Robinson shows us, is the living presence of Christ himself, who comes to us in our questions and doubts and confusions, and whom we can trust because, as Robinson’s grandmother taught him, ‘Jesus is a gentleman; you can always take the word of a gentleman.’  I can’t think of any book I’ve read that more clearly invites us to see that the universal Christ is with us in all the details of our lives.”

— H. Jefferson Powell, Professor, Duke University School of Law