We are going to be hearing a lot from Job in the next week so it might be a good idea to put his story into some context. The Book of Job deals with probably the hardest question in theology—why do bad things happen to good people? It’s a hard question in two ways: first …
Monthly Archives: September 2002
Saturday Week 25 Year II
What a miserable first reading! Full of foreboding, ripe with the warning that good times always end and fancies flee away. Yet it is poetic—beautiful in a way—it moves me even though I don’t want to go where it is going. And it’s full of a conflict too. It seems impossible to read that piece …