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Coming and Going

Disappearance is usually felt as something bad. When things disappear, we sense the pull of death, the call of the dust, the loss of the palpable good. I have recently been moving house after many years in one place, with all its accumulations. Things, often intimate things, are left behind, given . . . . Continue Reading »

Doing Theodicy

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of EvilBy John G. Stackhouse, Jr.Oxford University Press. 190 pp. $25.The problem of evil is a perennially baffling intellectual puzzle that has generated countless monographs, articles, and anthologies. It would be a grave oversight to dismiss these . . . . Continue Reading »

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