What comes next? How do you move on from recounting a personal tragedy to … whatever comes next? It is a variant of the jarring juxtapositions one gets in many newscasts, or in flicking the pages of newspapers, or in clicking the next link.
As it happens, my feed-reader clicks took me from the the announcment of Christopher Laurie’s tragic death to Michael Bird’s reflections on “The Spanish Train – The Odyssey of Theodicy“:
Does evil win in the end? … The answer given in Chris de Burgh’s Spanish Train is that evil wins, not in the absence of a God, but despite God. … But I would say that de Burgh’s god more closely resembles the United Nations (emblematic for the self-striving of men and women against the tsunami of human depravity) and not the God who made himself known in the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. … Does God win then? …
For Michael’s answer and the rest of his reflections, read the whole thing.