Welcome to The Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. The Good Faith Podcast

is a production of redeeming babble. And it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other

make sense of the world. And today we are doing our sort of second part on guns. I'm trying to

make sense about guns and gun violence. This is coming after our first part of this two

part or last week where I was talking with David French in a Good Faith classic episode.

And we were trying to make sense of guns from a sociological and a policy perspective,

making sense of gun culture and gun control measures. So I really encourage you if you haven't

listened to that episode, to go listen to that episode. And this episode though, I want to talk

about making sense of gun violence, gun violence itself, not just gun control or gun culture,

making sense of gun violence. And here I want to begin with a little just theological

reflection on the limits of making sense of evil in the world. Because gun violence is evil,

anyone who has experienced or witnessed or just seen the devastating damage that gun violence does

to individual victims, to families, to entire communities, you know it is a evil evil thing in

the world. And there is a limit to how much Christians can make sense of evil in the world.

And that's because evil by its very nature is senseless. It assaults our senses because it is

something that should not be. And therefore, you know, when we read a story or we hear a new story

of yet another say mass shooting, there can be something arising in us that's asked that question,

why is this happening? Why? Why? We're wanting to make sense of it. And we can make sense of it

from the vantage point again of gun culture and policy measures. But at sort of heart, I think many

of us are at an existential moral spiritual level trying to make sense of gun violence by asking

that question, why is this happening? And here I want to say that we cannot ever actually make sense

of something as evil as gun violence because it is evil. When we are trying to answer the question,

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