The Church and the Experience of Evil
" Maybe the deepest tragedy of the Rwandan genocide is that Christianity didn't seem to make any difference" "It's too easy for Christianity to have no consequence in our world." ~Emmanuel Katongole and Jonathan Hartgrove-Wilson in Mirror to the Church When the foundations are being destroyed,cwhat can the righteous do? Psalm 11:3 I have been reflecting on the dynamic between God and evil. Specifically, the extension of God into this world: The Church and the manifestation of evil called suffering. The question that continually comes into my mind in multiple different varieties is "Does the Authentic Church have redemptive influence on the world and its evil?". Or sometimes I ask "just how much light is required to dispel darkness?" I have struggled with these thoughts for many years as I thought about the Civil rights movement of the United States and although it had a wide variety of self-identified Christians as its adh...