Image: Journalists' Memorial, Newseum, Washington DC Adding to the 11 journalists who have died in the line of duty this year, NPR photojournalist David Gilkey and his interpreter, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed June 5 when their Humvee, part of an Afghan army convoy, was hit by rocket propelled grenades during a Taliban ambush. … [Read more...] about Journalism Notes: Afflicting the Comfortable
Suffering
Book Review: Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Richard Rice
Suffering and the Search for Meaning: Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain. Richard Rice (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014). Summary: This book surveys seven different approaches to the question of why pain and suffering if there is a God. This serves both as an introduction to the subject of theodicy and provides pastoral and personal resources for responding to people in pain, including one's own suffering. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Richard Rice
Listen: Suffering, Part 5
Mark Eckel concludes his series on suffering. Visit Part 4, Part 3, Part 2, or the series introduction and Part 1. Quotation “If you listen to the patient, he is telling you the diagnosis. A lot of people look at a specialist like me as a technician. They come to you for a procedure. And there is no doubt that procedures are important, or that the specialized technology we have these days is vital in caring for a patient. But I believe that this technology also has taken us away from the patient's story. And … [Read more...] about Listen: Suffering, Part 5
Chaos: Suffering, Part 4 (Scholar’s Compass)
Mark Eckel continues his series on suffering. Visit Part 3, Part 2, or the series introduction and Part 1 here. Quotations “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Desmond Tutu “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” Albert Einstein “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do … [Read more...] about Chaos: Suffering, Part 4 (Scholar’s Compass)
Displaced: Suffering, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)
Mark Eckel continues his series on suffering. Visit Part 2 here, or see the series introduction and Part 1 here. Mark has also written about the spiritual discipline of caring for a home here, a good complement to his poignant reflections on displacement in this post. Quotation Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution —more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. In our current crisis, nearly 30 million children worldwide have been driven from … [Read more...] about Displaced: Suffering, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)