For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Matthew Lee Andersen. Matthew is the founder of the Mere Orthodoxy blog and author of several books, including Earthen Vessels and his latest work, The End of Our Exploring, which encourages us to think about the questions we ask. He is a contributor to Christianity Today. (Be sure to read his latest piece on doubt at Leadership Journal.)

Today we chat with Matthew about the motivation behind our questions, why certainty scares us, and how his experience studying abroad has shaped his worldview.

What inspired you to embark on this latest book project?

It's been a long brewing process for me. I originally wanted to write a book directly aimed at small group leaders and teachers, to help them learn to use questions better in educational contexts. But what happens in the classroom doesn't stay there, and with all the talk these days about doubt and questioning, I realized there had been little discussion about questioning ...