How do we make biblical sense of the devastating fires that have rocked Southern California?

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I'm your host, Sean McHale.

I'm your co-host, Scott

Ray. This is the Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update, brought to you by Talbot School of Theology

Biola University. Scott, last week we made some comments about the fires when it was just fresh

and still just burning like crazy that we would come back to it this week. And our initial response

was to say, let's show compassion to people, let's help people. But you and I have both gotten a lot

of questions about how do we think biblically? How do we make sense of this? Some people have asked

me, especially as an apologist, how do we think about this biblically?

Now, you just did a chapel at Biola, which I love that we're not afraid to talk about this at

Biola and we invite conversation into it. Start with some reflections that you made in chapel

for us here, if you will. Well, yeah, it was a great opportunity, Sean, to think biblically about what has devastated Los Angeles County and the city of Los Angeles.

What we recognized is that the amount of damage done is equivalent to the acreage of the island of Manhattan in New York.

And I suspect that many of these communities will never be the same again.

They vow to rebuild.

And I think that's admirable.

But this is a long, hard slog that it's going to be for many of these communities.

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