Why does God allow suffering? And why are our attempts to figure it out inadequate?

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Why does an all loving God allow evil and suffering in the world? The theodicy isn’t just a problem for popes and theologians—at some point in any believers life it’s a question that seizes and stops a prayer in the throat. Yet we try to offer inadequate answers all the time: God only gives us what we can handle. This is a test. Everything happens for a reason. Push any of these responses a bit, and the unraveling begins. Perhaps the only real answer is in asking the questions. In poetry. In prayer. Joe Hoover, S.J., America’s poetry editor, is out with a new book O Death, Where is Thy Sting?, which is a meditation on all of this and more. In this week’s show, Zac and Ashley sit down with Joe to talk about suffering—fitting for Good Friday. Links from the show: Joe’s book: O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? The Great Courses Plus (Get a month of unlimited access for free!) Subscribe to America Join our Patreon community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.4	Join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news,
1:02.3	off to know her drinks.
1:04.0	I'm Ashley McKinliss and I'm joined by Zach Davis.
1:06.7	Good to be with you Ashley.
1:07.7	Good to be with you on this good Friday.
1:10.3	Or at least that's when you'll be listening to this.
1:13.0	Yes, our long lint is almost over.
1:16.0	We're in the Tridawam.
1:17.0	I'm tempted to wish you happy Easter, but I'm trying to be more intentional about not skipping, not skipping the parts, so I'm trying to be more intentional about not skipping the parts so I'm going to sit
1:25.0	with this good Friday.
1:26.3	Yeah and we always say that we work with Jesuits and this week we are bringing one on as
1:31.6	our guest. We do management is advised that we trod out
1:35.8	one of our Jesuits that we work with occasionally to remind people of the
1:39.6	carism. No, but this week we're talking with Brother Joe Hoover, who is a wonderful human being that will come through in the interview.
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