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I wrote this sermon as an assignment for one of my classes. Like everyone else, I'm struggling to make sense of what happened in Sandy Hook, a town in which my brother's family once lived, and at a school that my nephews once attended. Writing this helped me process my thoughts; I hope that reading it might help you process yours. Words fail. For all of the ways in which we have become a wordier society—a society of status updates, tweets, and text messages—our words sometimes fail us. They cannot fully convey the horror of what transpired in an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, just two days ago. They cannot begin to describe the overwhelming sense of loss of parents who cheerfully sent their children off to school with their lunch or their lunch money, their book bags, and a kiss goodbye, only never to see them again. They don’t adequately capture the moral outrage that we may feel at God for allowing evil to triumph over innocence. Where is the justice of a God ...