Really? Everything?

The Treehouse: Conversations About God

“Everything happens for a reason!”

Nope. Nope-ity nope-ity nope. That may be an ordering principle that brings to some people a measure of peace and comfort in times of uncertainty or suffering. But for the theology I’m constructing, the statement is indefensible in the bigger picture, in light of atrocities of war, the suffering of infants and children, daily reminders of violence too unspeakable to name.