As a boy growing up in the church I had MANY questions, many unresolved issues of faith and belief, and I wasn't bashful about asking them. That attitude would eventually lead to my turning away from the church when I got a little older, And years later, when I finally returned to the church, it was NOT to the same church where my honest doubts and questions were met with reproach. We need to learn the benefit of the doubt. We need to embrace the truth learned from the example of Thomas that doubts may not always lead to answers, but they almost always lead to spiritual growth. Perhaps Frederick Buechner expressed it best.
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith.
They keep it awake and moving. May this day be a time when we are honest about the weaknesses of the church, the fact that we don't have all the answers but often want to pretend that we do. But may it also be a time when we are hopeful about the potential of people who have been visited and blessed by the Risen Christ. We are church because Christ has come to us and has given us His gifts of Spirit, mission, and forgiveness, commissioning us to pass the gifts along to the whole, wide world in His name.