Sunday, May 6, 2012

Evil part one

In Sunday School this next week we will take a look at N.T. Wright's DVD Evil. The DVD is based on the book "Evil and the Justice of God" by Wright. Despite our modern advances in society evil exists and indeed flourishes. Twenty four hours news programs stream stories of vileness from around the world into our living rooms at the blink of an eye. Postmodernists have argued that evil is real and important, but leave little answers to the question, "what then are we to do?" "If we are not to react in an immature way, either by ignoring evil, or by declaring it's all the other person's fault, or by taking the blame on ourselves, we need a deeper and more nuanced way of answering the question many (not the least politicians) asking: And what can we or should we be doing about it?" - N.T. Wright, Evil and the existence of God pp. 39-40 Join us this Sunday at Our Merciful Savior Episcopal Church as we grapple with the difficult questions surrounding Evil, God's Justice, and our role through prayer and justice in the present.