Reconciling the Existence of God and Human Suffering
(Prepared for the World Religions Conference February 1, 2017) Human suffering can be very private and personal, communal, national, regional or global. It can be the result of devastating illness or accident, natural disaster, circumstance or human action. I will focus, for the moment, on the personal. I have two friends, both of whom lost a 25 year old son. One death was expected; the other was not. There is nothing worse than the pain and suffering of one who is grievi
