When There’s No Sense in the Suffering: Evil (Charlottesville Response)

Stories of nuclear threats, oppression of refugees, and the racist, evil actions of the white supremacist “alt-right” in Charlottesville confront us with the fact that there is evil in the world and humans are often the perpetrators of it. What kind of world do we live in? Where is God in it? What are we […]

When There’s No Sense in the Suffering: Shrinking Before the Mystery

When the world falls apart for Job, Job’s friends come to help him. Okay, they really do. “They sat with Job on the ground seven days and seven nights, not speaking a word to him, for they saw that he was in excruciating pain.” Job 2:13 But then they help him. They regurgitate platitudes and rigid religion to Job […]

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Month: August 2017

When There’s No Sense in the Suffering: Evil (Charlottesville Response)

When There’s No Sense in the Suffering: Shrinking Before the Mystery