For most of the Thanksgivings in my life, those in which I was old enough to really give thanks, it was easy to follow the words of the hymn, “Count your many blessings.” That’s not the case this year. It’s not that there haven’t been blessings I should count; nor is it that I would not be surprised at “what the Lord hath done.” …
Good God in an Unfair World - Part One: The Faith to Question
One of the first sentences, almost all of us utter in life, ends with an exclamation mark: “That’s not fair!” We have a deeply engrained sense of fairness, and object when we sense unfairness—especially when we see ourselves on the short end of the stick. What we all can see is that this world is filled with unfairness, and it bothers us. It bothers us, not just because unfairness seems unfortunate, but because it strikes us as morally wrong. And so, we ask, “Where is God?”