Wisdom That Unsettles

When James writes, "If any of you lacks wisdom, let God know," we often imagine wisdom arriving like a warm blanket — comforting, familiar, confirming what we already believe. But what if the wisdom God gives is more like a crowbar, prying open the doors we have carefully locked? Rachel Held Evans once described her own journey of asking God for wisdom and receiving, instead of certainty, a holy disorientation.…