Lent 3 C: Now!

Luke 13:1-9 Dear Partner in Preaching, Theodicy is a rabbit hole. And we don’t have to go down it. Yeah, that’s pretty much all I have this week. Okay, a word or two of explanation. First, this passage names questions pretty much everyone who thinks about God eventually asks. Why do bad things happen to good people? Does God cause calamity? Is tragedy – whether on the small scale or large – punishment for sin? These are questions we ask, I think, because tragedy and calamity – whether caused by nature, like the devastation of we are witnessing in Mozambique, or caused by humans, like the murders at the mosque in...