Actually, the saying most likely began as ...'Enquiring' minds want to know.'  It was a play on words by the cheap check-out line National Enquirer tabloid. 

The National Enquirer and other scandal sheets like Star or the Chicago Sun-Times tend to emphasize gossip stories, sensational crime features, junk food news, and "report" through innuendo the personal lives of celebrities.

Is this enquiry or inquiry?   [Notice that twice the text says "inquire"]

The Oxford dictionary says the traditional distinction is that enquire is used for the general senses of 'ask', while inquire is reserved for uses meaning 'make a formal investigation'.

The National Enquiring is then properly titled because inquiry is not their concern.  Serious investigation is not their goal.  They prefer to shock or titillate, digging around only to expose what is disreputable, not to reveal what is upright and decent.  It's not the good they want to find; it's the naughty or the outrageous.  That's what sells.

Tabloids obviously are not the place to do research.  They certainly are no source for scholarship.  Cheap, meddling questions ask only for nosy answers.  Scandalmongering writers are not principled journalists.  They don't much pretend to be.  They are snoops prying into people's lives, so what gets printed may tickle sordid curiosity, but it plays fast and loose with the truth.

What a contrast we see with the prophets of God and even the angels.  The saints and angels were serious and deliberate examiners of God's Word.  They explored, probed, inspected, and studied the language of the Lord.  They yearned to know more about the Spirit of Christ and the meaning of His passion and succeeding glory. 

The prophets look intently, as into an encyclopedia of divine wonders, eager to know more about the promises of God and how certain fulfillment would serve mankind in Christ.

Even the holy angels, already confirmed in bliss and seemingly without a personal stake in the redemption of the world, still yearned to look into the preached message of the Gospel.  Even the angels, magnificent in their own right, regarded the Gospel as sacred and marvelous, craving to know more.

I'm a great deal surprised these day at the popularity of angels. 

Actually, I'm not surprised because what sells is not holy angels but tabloid angels, shallow, wussy, one-dimensional, benign inventions that are nothing like the real thing. 

Real angels of God are messengers of good news like Gabriel who spoke of the incarnation of the Christ to Mary (Luke1:26) or the angel at the fields of Bethlehem announcing "good news of great joy" because of the birth of Jesus. (Luke 2:10).  A real angel is the young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side of the empty sepulcher who announced to the women that Easter dawn, "He is not here; he has risen, just as he said."  (Matt. 28:6)  Real angels are the two who spoke the promise of God on the Mount of Olives, "This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11)

The greatest privilege of angels is to bear the message of the Lord.  But even they who know it so well still marvel and desire to know more.

Looking deeply into Scripture will never be trendy or popular.  You will never find the Gospel of Luke or the Epistle of Paul to the Romans offered at the check out lane of Meijers or Safeway. 

It is only in the earnest circle of Christians where truth and assurance are sought that you will find those like the Bereans who received the message of Christ with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what St. Paul was teaching was true.  (Acts 17:11)

They wanted to know for themselves.  The Scriptures were not rags or trendy broadsheets.  They are the very truth of God inquiring minds want to know.  They reveal the mystery of the cross and the impenetrable glory of God whose suffering served the highest need of mankind.

This is why we need to be suspicious of the introduction of any tabloidism in the church.  Anything that is shallow, one-dimensional, or weedy has no place among the prophetic Word, the angels, or the saints of God.  I'm talking about junk music, trends, fads, and sensationalism. 

May God give us inquiring minds and deliver us from enquiring minds.  We haven't begun to mature if we want the quick answer, the easy worship, and a generic "gospel."

God has brought us salvation through His incarnate Son, Jesus Christ.  With the prophets and angels, with the Bereans and with St. Paul, let us long to know and understand Him more.  Let us hunger for the Word and praise the Holy Spirit sent from heaven to speak it to us.