It’s one of the oldest religious questions there is, and one we have struggled to answer satisfactorily. The classic bottled Christian responses—God’s ways are higher than our ways, God had a better plan—are not always up to the scale of suffering. In any case, they didn’t work for Redford. They didn’t work for Brandon Ambrosino either.
Ambrosino is a theologian, journalist, and author of Is It God’s Will?: Making Sense of Tragedy, Luck, and Hope in a World Gone Wrong. In it, he applies his rich theological training to a sudden and shocking personal loss and attempts to come up with some real answers to the honest questions that follow. For some, his answers will be provocative. For others, they will be a source of enormous comfort. We talked about how he arrived at his conclusions and what his framework means for us.
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