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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: How to Respond to Other Peoples' Pain: Silent Presence in the Wild Inexplicability of Evil and Grace / David Kelsey
Description: How should we respond to the pain of others? We are too often quick to justify God's permitting horrendous evils, answering why, and talking too much. In this episode, theologian David Kelsey reflects on Human Anguish and God's Power, noticing the anomaly of evil and its wild and inexplicable grip on creatures, the constant temptation of such creatures to talk and explain evil in the face of others' pain, and finally the analogously wild and inexplicable nature of God's grace in his immediate, if silent, presence among human anguish. Interview by Ryan McAnnally-Linz.Show Notes“When yo...