All Posts Tagged With: "virginia-tech-massacre"
Book: Why Horror Attracts, and How We Memorialize It
Bob Abernethy, founder and host of PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, and co-editor William Bole have compiled 66 of the show’s most interesting interviews in “The Life of Meaning: Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World,†published this month by Seven Stories Press. Compressed from lengthy Q+As into “spoken essay†form, the brief chapters offer short [...]
23Apr2007 | Andrea Useem | 0 comments | ContinuedScholar on VTech Tragedy: Theodicy Has Many Faces
Reporting on a tragedy follows a set trajectory, and many reporters today are writing “what sense can we make of it?” stories, often using faith leaders as sources. Over the coming week, the otherwise arcane theological term “theodicy” will crop up in news stories across the country.
To take a deeper look at theodicy, ReligionWriter spoke [...]
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