Sunday, Reflections

CHRISTIAN PUBLISHER THOMAS NELSON PULLS THE PLUG ON DAVID BARTON'S REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON

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WORSE YET, since good and evil in this world commonly inhabit not only the same field but even the same individual human beings—since, that is, there are no unqualified good guys any more than there are any unqualified bad guys—-the only result of a truly dedicated campaign to get rid of evil will be the abolition of literally everybody.

— Robert Farrar Capon

God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. The pain and falleness of humanity have entered into his heart. Through the prism of my tears I have seen a suffering God...

And great mystery: to redeem our brokenness and lovelessness the God who suffers with us did not strike some mighty blow of power but sent his beloved son to suffer like us, through his suffering to redeem us from suffering and evil.

Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

— Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son