It's Thursday, May 26, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

American hearts, minds, and prayers continue to be directed towards the horror in Uvaldi, Texas.

And now we do know more. But I'm not going to go into detail on that story today, precisely out of respect.

We spoke yesterday about what we knew at the time.

The scale and scope of the horror is now well documented.

Yesterday in Uvaldi there was a political confrontation even as government

officials were seeking to give an advisory.

There's so much at stake in all of this, but we need to remember that the most important issue right now is a grieving community and in particular grieving parents and grieving families.

And I know of connections to so many of those families and even if you know no such connections I documented those in an article I published at world opinions yesterday morning

But even if you do not have personal ties, just look at those photographs, just

understand what is going on, and let's give some space and some time in order for all this to be

figured out.

But then again, I overstated that. I overspoke,

intentionally to make a point. We will never completely figure this out.

That's a part of the Christian understanding of sin, the Christian understanding of evil,

that comes down to the little word sird, as in absurd, which is to say evil doesn't make sense. Now that's true when it just comes to sin in the Garden of Eden.

No one would think that Eve and Adam made good choices in the Garden of Eden.

Their choice was absurd. Evil itself, sin itself is absurd.

And that's what we're looking at in this picture,

but it's not only absurd.

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