When Bad Things Happen to Good People

It’s not that misery loves company, exactly; rather, it’s that suffering, in all its forms, and our response to it, binds us together across dinner tables, neighborhoods, towns and cities, and even time. Bad doings bring out the best in people. Lives were saved at the finish line of the Boston Marathon because bystanders ran toward the explosions t

We are never truly alone, because God is always with us. In their way, religions addressed a universal problem: they recognized the powerful need to be intimately known and appreciated and admitted frankly that this need could not realistically ever be met by other people.

God is not about power but relationship; that religion is not about control but about freedom; that God is found less in nature than in human society, in the structures we make to honor His presence by honoring His image in other human beings. Biblical faith is about the dignity of the personal, and it can never be obsolete.