Christine Flowers: Let’s Stop Using Tragedy to Make Political Hay

Why We Can Trust God When Tragedy Strikes, Whether He ‘Allows’ It Or Not

To give a Christian response to the problem of evil means it is possible that God permits evil and suffering because He can bring about a greater good from it.

Passing a milestone, a Sandy Hook survivor looks back and ahead in CT

Lenie Urbina graduated from the University of Connecticut in May. With a wide smile on her face, she collected her diploma at Gampel Pavilion to the cheers of her friends and family. As she walked, Lenie’s mind slipped to the 20 Sandy Hook Elementary students and the six staff members who were killed 12 years ago in a tragedy that shocked the nation. Lenie was there that day; a fourth grader hiding in the gym supply closet trying not to jump at …

Let's stop using tragedy to make political hay

When 20 children were murdered two weeks before Christmas in Newtown, Conn., my worldview shifted.

Christine Flowers | Stop Using Tragedy to Make Political Hay

When 20 children were murdered two weeks before Christmas in Newtown, Connecticut, my worldview shifted. To me, the violent shooting deaths of babies who were contemplating sugar plums and Santa challenged my belief in a good and loving God. There was no reason, no justification, no earthly or celestial explanation as to why such evil could enter a school. Guns, mental illness and bad parenting were all thrown around as the cause of the catastro…

Christine Flowers - Stop using tragedy to make political hay

When 20 children were murdered two weeks before Christmas in Newtown, Conn., my worldview shifted.

Let’s stop using tragedy to make political hay

When 20 children were murdered two weeks before Christmas in Newtown, Conn., my worldview shifted.