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She who Suffers - God and Evil
Kimberly Knight (UCC)
In the wake of a horrific event, where a human choice took the life of beloved police officer, some friends in blue have asked me hard questions this week. Why would something like this happen? How can your God of love allow things like this to happen? Many of the folk asking are non-religious, anti-religious or grew up abused by people of an angry God and have turned away from the church and a life of faith. When friends like these turn to me with painful questions of "why?" I feel intensely compelled to invest a great deal of time thinking, reading, talking and praying about what on earth to tell them. You can be damn sure I will never utter those ridiculous phrases that we've all heard too often. You know the ones: "God has a plan in this, we may not know it but He does." Or "God is teaching us something through this." Those sprinkled with the hollow "She is in a better place now." leave me more than cold, they leave me angry.
The Golden Circle of Being Church
Kimberly Knight (UCC)Something that strikes me about this video is that it seems the church knows the “why” of the Golden Circle but does not always know what or how. We know we are called to be in community and serve in response to Christ’s radical love and God’s inexhaustible hospitality. They questions for each of our communities, and each of us as Progressive Christians is What Are We To Do with This Call and How Are We Making a Difference in the World. – what do you think?
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