If our foundations of faith are built in a way that allows for questions, which embraces the challenges of faith, which has room for mystery and the unknown, then when the inevitable period of exploration comes there's a well-worn roadmap to follow. Young people who are taught to question and to think for themselves can use the time of exploration when they're older to establish an adult faith which puts into practice those tools of questioning that they've learned through childhood. And even if their faith tradition then comes to be very different from what they had as a child this is usually an exciting time of growth.

Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters explains the importance of us to begin by questioning ourselves, by wrestling with our assumptions, and asking if what we believe about the church and about God is really because God has led us there, ...