It’s disturbing.  Last week Brandon Eich resigned as CEO of Mozilla.   They are the company that operates the popular Firefox web browser.  Eich had been appointed to that position only a month before.  You can imagine his delight when he received the promotion.  And Mozilla was highly optimistic.

The news broke in the United Kingdom on March 24 that at twenty-seven hospitals they have been burning the remains of aborted babies to heat their buildings.  Fifteen thousand children tossed into the furnaces or waste disposal incinerators.

Sally and Stevie attend the same church, but they are not part of the same set. They greet one another in church and occasionally exchange a few pleasantries about some banal subject—the weather, the church picnic, or the general depravity of the nation. That’s about it. 

The other day former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg told the The New York Times in an interview, “I am telling you, if there is a God, when I get to Heaven, I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in…I have earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.” 

Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn was the greatest writer of the twentieth century.  He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 for his novel, The Gulag Archipelago.  It told the horrifying story of the Soviet Union’s punishment of dissenters in prison camps during the rule of Stalin.

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I ended my last post on suffering with a comment about “the mysterious will of a personal, powerful, just, and compassionate God.” I can just about hear a critic responding, “Yeah, yeah, yeah! You Christians always take refuge in mystery, but you won’t let us do it.

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My previous post explored human suffering in the light of four non-Christian worldviews. All of them are fundamentally flawed because they are untrue to our deepest intuitions about life. In this post, I turn to the Christian Scriptures.

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Human suffering is very great. Much of it seems senseless. Much of it is so evil that I cannot comprehend it. Vile violence against women and girls, perhaps more than anything else, pierces my heart like a knife. 

 Ukraine – Echoes of 1938

The vote is in.  Ninety-seven percent of voters in Crimea chose to join Russia.  Stalin reportedly once said, “It doesn’t matter who votes.  It matters who counts the ballots.”

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We have a Ukrainian woman, the wife of a former Soviet Air Force officer from the Cold War era, who works for us part-time in Prague.

The most crucial and controversial issue in the evangelical world today is ‘role of women.’  Our secular culture is becoming clearer on this. The Federal Reserve now has a woman chairman, and there is a real possibility of a woman president in two years, not to leave out the German Bundeskanzler.

It’s been over two weeks and no one is talking about anything else.  What happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370 with its sacred cargo of 239 souls?  The world wonders and searches.