2012 Lenten Reflection Series Sweeping Up the Heart: A Father's Lament for His Daughter (Paul Nisly. Good Books, 1992) provides both a raw and a rich narrative of a Messiah College English professor's wrestling with God (and himself) after his daughter Janelle's death. As you may remember from last week, several months after her Messiah College graduation and the beginning of the practice of nursing, Janelle was struck by a tractor-trailer rig. The truck rear-ended several cars, then smashed over into the … [Read more...] about Why Does God Suffer?
Sweeping Up the Heart
Lent brings me back to reflections on loss, grief, suffering
2012 Lenten Reflection Series Last week I began the 2012 series with Entering Lent: “I Want” in Higher Education. As you may remember, Kent Annan's After Shock saturated my 2011 Lenten reflection. With Kent's recent visit to South Central PA and the deep chord which "I Want" struck not only with me, but also a number of the students with whom I watched it, I wondered if my 2012 reflections would largely draw from his earlier book Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle (InterVarsity Press, 2009). … [Read more...] about Lent brings me back to reflections on loss, grief, suffering