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NIC VOICE News Update 01-27-2005 Tsunami Interfaith Service  at Chicago Temple/Bishop Willimon on Tsunami 

Other news of interest across the UMC included in NIC VOICE  news updates are now being posted in the NIC VOICE forum at Faithful Christian Laity Discussion Forum. 

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PRESS ARTICLES and RELATED LINKS:  TSUNAMI INTERFAITH SERVICE AT CHICAGO TEMPLE

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Interfaith service sees hope from tsunami
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA

With Buddhist chants, Muslim teaching and Christian hymns of prayer, dozens of religious leaders gathered Wednesday at First United Methodist Church in the Loop for a solemn interfaith service to mark the 30th day since the tsunami disaster devastated South Asia.

The event, organized by the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago and the National Conference for Community and Justice, allowed the area's different religious communities to come together, reflect on the tragedy and interpret its meaning for their faith.  Read More

Where was God during tsunami?
Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago,IL,USA

Buddhists in saffron-colored robes and turbaned Sikhs sat alongside consuls general from Indonesia, Thailand and Somalia at the hourlong service at First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington.

The afternoon crowd of 200, which also included Jews, Muslims and Christians, observed a moment of silence to honor the 150,000-plus tsunami victims.

Eleven people representing various countries affected, including India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tanzania, also lighted candles to reflect on the fragility of human life. The 12th candle or the "candle of hope" was lighted by 9-year-old Joey Da Vidge, an Indonesian American who lost more than a dozen members of his extended family in the disaster.

Nature makes people better

"Nature is always constructive," said Nirmita Dholakia, of Hinsdale's Hindu Chinmaya Mission. "Natural calamities create humility instead of hate in the minds of people. They forget their enmity, accept and accommodate each other. People go beyond the differences of caste, gender, nationality, color, status and religious identity to comfort or help each other."  Read More

Sponsoring Organizations:

The National Conference for Community and Justice

NCCJ is the only national human relations organization that focuses on a broad range of "isms," the multiple manifestations of discrimination and oppression that are based on one’s religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, bias crimes to racial profiling - the challenges ahead are real.  To confront and overcome them, NCCJ maintains an abiding commitment to work with decision-makers and leaders to support their work to build an inclusive society.

Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago

Editor’s Note:  no web site found for the Council; related articles on this group follow:

Avoid war, city religious leaders tell Bush

The document represents the first time the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago has made a public statement on a national issue since the group formed in 1984. Members did so now, they said, to help the president realize that even "normally conservative and cautious" American religious leaders from the heartland believe war should be a last resort.

Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago Open Letter to President George W. Bush on Iraq (shows list of signators, including Northern Illinois Conference)

 Chicago religious leaders make plea against proselytizing

United Methodist Bishop C. Joseph Sprague is among a group of Chicago

religious leaders asking Southern Baptists not to target their city for a

major evangelistic event next summer.

Sprague noted that the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago

is "very receptive for the Southern Baptists coming here for works of

justice and mercy" and would work with them on projects for the poor and

dispossessed.

"But we are not eager to have them come into this community to proselytize,"

he told United Methodist News Service on Nov. 30. "We have a very good but

fragile balance among the innumerable religious entities here."

 

First United Methodist Church – Chicago Temple

Also at Chicago Temple this week:

Sunday, January 30
12:30 P.M.--Silk Road Theater Staged Reading: "Back of the Throat" by Yussef El Guindi. Dixon Chapel

BACK OF THE THROAT by Yussef El Guindi

Directed by Anna Bahow

The Chicago Temple
First United Methodist Church (77 W. Washington St., Chicago)
2nd Floor, Dickson Chapel
12:30 pm

Two government officials pay an Arab-American man, Khalid, a seemingly innocuous visit. What begins as a "friendly" inquiry soon devolves into a chilling, full-blown investigation of Khalid's presumed ties to terrorists. At times surreal and comic, Back of the Throat examines the way in which facts, evidence and (mis)perceptions are used to distort the truth and how notions of cultural "otherness" impact the relationship between the accusers and the accused.

The staged reading will be followed by a Q & A session with playwright Yussef El Guindi.

Back of the Throat is being presented in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois (www.aclu-il.org), a non-profit, non-partisan organization, dedicated to protecting freedom, liberty, equality and justice for all within the United States.

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Bishop Willimon on Tsunami

Tsunami raises prophecy questions for Christians
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA.

Sunday, January 16, 2005

GREG GARRISON

News staff writer

www.al.com (Alabama)

Though some Christians might see it as a sign of the end times or a judgment from God, theologians say there are no easy answers behind the Dec. 26 tsunami that killed 150,000 people in Asia.

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A lot of people have fallen into the trap of cross-examining God, when they need to examine themselves, said United Methodist Bishop William Willimon. Every day, tens of thousands of people worldwide die of hunger and go largely ignored, he said.

"Suddenly God gets called to account," Willimon said. "Maybe we better hope God doesn't call us to account. It's a wonder God doesn't say to us, `How can I care about a loving humanity when people starve every day and you do nothing?' I don't know why God lets us be as cruel and insensitive as we are, yet we get caught up in justifying the ways of God to humanity. I could imagine the Lord saying, `I don't need to explain anything to you. You have a lot of explaining to do to me.' God gives me the room to not be what he intended me to be. He gives room to the heavens and earth to not be what they were intended to be." Read More

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Tsunami Resources at United Methodist Church web site

UMCOR and 9/11 Donations

Charity Watch Dog Organization Launches Investigation of UMCOR

 

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Resources from Christianity Today: 

• Facing the Tsunami

·        Responding to Tragedy (from CT)

Donate to the relief effort:
   • World Vision: http://www.worldvision.org/tsunami
   • International Red Cross: http://www.ifrc.org
   • Christian Aid: http://www.christianaid.org.uk
   • UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org
   • United Nations World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org
   • Jubilee Campaign: http://www.jubileecampaign.org
   • World Relief: http://www.wr.org
   • Samaritan's Purse: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/home.asp
   • Salvation Army: http://www1.salvationarmy.org/usw/www_usw.nsf
   • Compassion International: http://www.compassion.com/Default
   • Baptist World Aid: http://www.bwanet.org/bwaid/

Tsunami Headlines at the United Methodist Web Site

 

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Tsunamis, Suffering & Evil: How Can an All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Good God Allow It?

The colossal destruction of the Asian tsunami disaster raises profound questions about God: how could an all-knowing, all-powerful, loving God allow this? We offer no pat answers, but deep perspective from a Christian worldview.

In this issue:

• New Special Focus: Tsunamis, Suffering & Evil: How Can an All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Good God Allow It?
  • Featured Articles
  • On the Philosophical Problem of Evil
  • Related Resources
  • Making a Personal Response: Eternal Hope
• Campus Crusade for Christ Tsunami Relief Fund—Respond Tangibly
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Special Focus: Tsunamis, Suffering & Evil:
How Can an All-Powerful, All-Knowing, Good God Allow It?

One of recent history's greatest natural disasters rocked south Asia and the Horn of Africa the day after Christmas, 2004. FoxNews.com reported, "Sunday's massive quake of 9.0 magnitude off the Indonesian island of Sumatra sent 500-mph waves surging across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal in the deadliest known tsunami since the one that devastated the Portuguese capital of Lisbon in 1755 and killed an estimated 60,000 people" (Tsunami Death Toll Reaches 52,000, accessed 12-28-04). The official death toll has nearly tripled at this writing and promises to only rise further, perhaps precipitously. Death by water-borne disease is among the greatest calamities feared by officials. Did these people deserve this? Where is God? Is this His judgment?

Survivors dug mass graves by hand in Sri Lanka. One of the most grievous facts coming out of this tragic scene is that an estimated one-third or more of the victims are children. What kind of God—if indeed He exists—would allow children to be killed so wantonly?

Philosophers and everyday people muse over the implications of suffering and evil. The ultimate question remains: if God is all-knowing (omniscient), all-powerful (omnipotent) and good (benevolent), why is there evil and suffering in the world? And why so much? In fact, this line of reasoning, known as the problem of evil, has long been engaged to disprove God's existence. However, some believers counter that evil's existence, on the contrary, lends credibility to the claim of His existence.

Most treatments of the topic of suffering by Christians, philosophical and otherwise, deal with "man's inhumanity to man"—evil perpetrated by another agent of free will. Serious discussion of natural calamities, usually known as natural evil, and the place God may play in it are harder to come by.

Questions, more than answers, abound:

We engage these issues deeply from a Christian worldview, give you an opportunity to contribute tangibly and offer ultimate hope in our Special Focus. To approach them in a more superficial way would do injustice to the extreme importance of the questions.

—Byron Barlowe, Editor/Webmaster

Photos at top courtesy of Fred Robarts, from his blog Extra Extra. Used by permission.
Other  photos courtesy of Gospel for Asia, Copyright 2004-05. Used by permission.

Featured Articles:

http://www.leaderu.com/common/terror/lynch.html
Why Would a Loving God Allow Pain and Suffering?  
Jay Lynch, M.D.
Pain and suffering are not abstract concepts to a cancer doctor who has seen them up close day-to-day. Professor of Oncology Jay Lynch, M.D. deals fully with the problem, its definition, various solutions to the problem, a biblical view of Job's sufferings and even the purpose of pain and suffering. He tells of new residents, dreading the treatment of depressed patients, coming away in awe of their strength and focus. Concludes Dr. Lynch, "There is a perfecting and purifying effect in our suffering...."

http://www.leaderu.com/common/terror/failure.html
Failure to Render Aid
Professor Mitchell Land
Professor Land speaks from a place of deep personal pain in the loss of his own son: "Sometimes we can't identify a perpetrator, and we see the pain as senseless and without cause. Perhaps the pain is caused by disease or a natural disaster or a freak accident or inexplicable depression. Sometimes we blame ourselves and eventually self-destruct. But when we are out of options, or when we have vented our emotions on others, we finally turn our rage upon the real source of our anger: God."

http://www.leaderu.com/common/terror/tragedy.html
Where is God in the Midst of Tragedy?
Everystudent.com
A very accessible article on the biblical basis for: the God who wants relationship with us and created us for that purpose, evil and suffering, the world we live in, personal response, the way God provided to know Him, the world to come and how to know Him.

http://www.leaderu.com/common/terror/comfort.html
Comfort Within the Boundaries: Finding One’s Voice Regarding Evil
Dr. Robert A. Pyne
Written in rapid response to the events of terrorism on 9-11, 2001 (terrorist attack on America), this outline to aid spiritual leaders in helping people process that disaster seems appropriate in the case of the Asian tsunami of 2004 (at least in part). Simply replace references to the "World Trade Center," for example, with "the tsunami and its aftermath." Particularly good for believers as a reminder to resist errors and extremes by asserting that such events indicate the Apocalypse (end of the world) or God's direct judgment. Pyne also warns against the natural response to seek resolution of tension by either redefining God to accommodate our experience or redefine our experience to accommodate our understanding of God.

http://www.leaderu.com/theology/tsunami_sovereignty_mercy.html
Tsunami, Sovereignty, and Mercy—NEW
Dr. John Piper
A brilliantly succinct account of the biblical view of God's place in disaster. Does He cause calamities like the Asian tsunami? What is Satan's part? Where do judgment and mercy come in? And what about non-believers?

On the Philosophical Problem of Evil:

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/evil.html
The Problem of Evil
Rick Rood
The problem of how a good and powerful God could allow evil and suffering in His creation is discussed from both a philosophical and religious perspective.
Available in Español (http://espanol.leaderu.com/docs/teologia/problema_del_mal.html)

http://www.leaderu.com/theology/theodicy.html
A Biblical Theodicy
W. Gary Crampton
Crampton writes, "If, according to the Bible, God, who is omnipotent and benevolent, has eternally decreed all that ever comes to pass, and if He sovereignly and providentially controls all things in His created universe, how is He not the author of evil? How can evil exist in the world? How do we justify the actions of God in causing evil, suffering, and pain? This is the question of 'theodicy'." He concludes that the "supralapsarianism view of the purpose of creation" both reasonably establishes a "logically consistent universe...in which evil exists for God's purposes, but [also one in which] God's people will be far more blessed because of the incarnation and Christ than they could ever have been blessed by an obedient Adam."

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/craig-nielsen0.html
Craig-Nielsen Debate: God, Morality and Evil
William Lane Craig and Kai Nielsen
A classic debate between two of the most prominent defenders of their positions in the world, Craig the theist position, Nielsen the atheist. Craig draws distinctions between the logical and emotional problems of evil, and between the logical and probabilistic versions of the logical argument.

Nielsen, incredibly, says "For the atheist, there isn’t such a thing as the problem of evil. There is just evil in the world that we struggle against endlessly, and that’s it." He deals with "moral values without God" and "immortality," thus dealing with one of Craig's basic arguments, the moral argument for God's existence.

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/koons/docs/lec19.html
The Problem of Evil: Preliminaries
Dr. Robert C. Koons
The problem of evil concerns the question of whether it is possible to reconcile the existence of "evils" in the world (wickedness, death, suffering) with the existence of a perfectly good, omnipotent God. The argument from evil is an argument that purports to show that these cannot be reconciled, and, therefore, since evils do exist, there cannot exist a God who is both perfectly good and omnipotent. (Links available to all other lectures in this comprehensive series.)

http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/naturalevil.html
The Argument from Natural Evil
Tim Holt, Philosophy of Religion.Info (outside Web site link)
Very succinct, straightforward treatment of the problem of natural evil (disaster which comes about from natural causes, such as earthquakes and tsunamis) and how to counter the argument. Limited book recommendations included.

http://www.leaderu.com/philosophy/evil_modernthought.html
Books In Review: Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy—NEW
Reviewed by Professor Walter Sundberg
For those who wish to go deeper into the philosophical project to answer the problem of evil, this book, reviewer Sundberg explains, traces the treatment of evil by Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel and others on their own terms.

In recent decades, author Neiman argues, Western philosophy has been "beholden to an inbred academic culture obsessed either by a narrow construal of epistemology and methodology or the group–speak of left–wing ideology.... [Neiman] takes up the traditional canon of great modern thinkers, interpreting them in terms that they themselves considered crucial. The question of evil illuminates the thought of these figures in an original way, so much so that Neiman’s claim to have written an 'alternative history' is not an empty boast. Hers is a book for mature people who do not expect pat answers, who are willing to be disturbed by arguments instead of having their prejudices satisfied."

http://www.leaderu.com/common/perfectworld.html
A Possible Perfect World: Examining the Anti-theistic Argument Based On the Problem of Evil
John Gay
"I do not believe in a God because there is so much evil and suffering in the world." This is an argument we commonly hear. The existence of evil and suffering, it is believed, refutes the possibility of God's existence.
Available in Español (http://espanol.leaderu.com/docs/teologia/mundo_perfecto.html)

http://www.leaderu.com/events/rz/rzforum.html
Is There Meaning in Evil and Suffering?
Discussion Forum (media ordering information)
[Editor's Note: Plans call for LeaderU.com to once again present this forum online as streaming video. Until that time, please see the linked page for ordering video and/or audio copies.] On February 11, 1999, a distinguished and diverse panel explored the question, "Is there meaning in evil and suffering?" Forum participants: Dr. Ravi Zacharias and Dr. William Lane Craig (both Christian theists), Dr. Bernard Leikind (naturalist scientist), and Dr. Jitendra Mohanty (scholar, Eastern religion).

Related Resources:

http://www.leaderu.com/marshill/mhr06/glory1.html
The Glory of His Discontent: The Inconsolable Suffering of God
Don Hudson, Mars Hill Forum
"If the Christian life is a sojourn, which I believe it is, then the pilgrim on the way (Homo Viatoris) is moving from the innocence of Eden to the joy of heaven while trying to make sense of a tragic, suffering world.... I do not believe in a God who merely observes our tragedies with a cold reserve. I believe instead, that he is a God who participates in our sufferings while we participate in his suffering of the cross. Does heaven really cancel out the suffering of the moment? Should we use the future to remove us from the present, or should the future increase the yearning for the day of the Lord?"

http://www.leaderu.com/philosophy/goodgodcruelworld.html
Good God, Cruel World?—NEW
Krista Kay Bontrager
So-called natural evil—like the recent tsunami in Asia—as opposed to the evil perpetrated by people on people, is tougher to explain from a biblical worldview. However, Bontrager touches on scientific aspects of a greater good derived by a benevolent Creator from even such devastating disasters as hurricanes and similar natural phenomena. Compassion is surely warranted as a biblical response, but perspective on a global scale can help.

http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9801/budziszewski.html
Escape from Nihilism
Dr. J. Budziszewski
People are tempted to toss out the proverbial baby of ethical standards with the bathwater of pain and unanswered questions surrounding suffering. This is the story of one professor's journey to the abandonment of any moral or ethical code, and back to faith in Christ. The topic of good and evil appears throughout.

http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9403/articles/hunter.html
Evil: Back in Bad Company
Professor Graeme Hunter
Hunter calls into question our modern understanding of luck, evil, fate and tragedy. He writes, "Few people today see any purpose in universal history and fewer still expect it to disclose the meaning of their lives. Its former prestige has also vanished. It is this collapse of confidence in history that seems to be the radical cause both of the renewed consciousness of evil and of the pagan framework in which it is now so often discussed."

Hunter continues, "The upshot of this [Platonic allegory of the sun] for understanding the world is that we have not understood a thing until we have seen what is good about it. If Plato is right, then the Freudians, the Marxists, the long succession of fashionable theorists who traffic in suspicion, believing they have explained a thing when they have reduced it to something low, evil, or unsightly, will not ultimately be vindicated. Instead, creation is good, bearing in itself the marks of order and intelligence, and must finally be understood in those terms." This may be particularly difficult but yet important to do after a natural disaster of the scope of the recent Asian tsunami.

Making a Personal Response:

http://www.alliantstudios.com/solutions/web/lifatlg.swf
Life@Large (outside link)
Alliant Studios
Life@Large (Life at Large) shares a way to find permanent security, meaning and comfort in tragedy and forever.

http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/drinking/coldones/knowgod2.html
Would You Like to Know God Personally?
The following four principles have helped millions to know God personally and experience the abundant life He promises, based in biblical claims and promises.

The above is found in its entirety online at: http://www.leaderu.com/focus/tsunamiandgod.html.

Campus Crusade for Christ Tsunami Relief Fund—Respond Tangibly

An opportunity to give tangibly to the relief efforts of national staff members on the ground in tsunami-stricken areas. From LeaderU's sponsoring organization's President, Steve Douglass:

"Within hours of the disaster, our staff in these nations began to mobilize to reach out to those around them and provide whatever help they could. Staff in India and Sri Lanka have determined that they can feed 10,000 people for 15 days for just $3 each per day, for a total of $450,000. They will work along with a small band of student disciples to make this happen.

Staff in other affected nations are pursuing similar efforts... Many are working through local churches and are not only sharing Christ's compassion, but also His message whenever possible....

This is an enormous disaster, but it is also a tremendous opportunity to show hundreds of thousands of people—many of whom live in areas usually closed to Christian outreach—the nature of Christ's love. Please prayerfully consider this opportunity to help the suffering, and act as the Lord leads." Click: http://give.ccci.org/featured/tidalwave

Classic from LeadershipU's Archives: Books In Review: Islam and Democracy

Review of Islam and Democracy by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll. Reviewed by Joshua Muravchik. Are Muslims capable of democratic rule? How democratic were Islamic countries then? Muravchik calls out Esposito and Voll on what he characterizes as their "apologetic exercises in cultural relativism" and excuse-making for despotic regimes that use "democracy" as cover for autocratic government and Islamism. Much has been revealed since the release of Islam and Democracy along this line by the downfall of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the current milieu in Iraq.

Democratic elections loom in the coming weeks for Iraq and the Palestinians. This review of a 1997 release sheds light on a topic soon to be less theoretical. Much of the rhetoric of recent months surrounding the Iraq War, its former regime, the move toward democratic rule and the upcoming elections is fostered by academics like Esposito. This critique provides a glimpse into the worldview-level differences of such thought and more conservative notions of democracy.

Access LU archive classic here: http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9701/reviews/muravchik.html.

Blessed Child, novel co-written by the late Bill Bright
Spiritual truth, top-drawer thriller novel
Nothing could prepare the world for the unusual power of this escaped orphan from Ethiopia...

What a beautiful picture of the love God has for us, and how eagerly He seeks our company. This book shows, in vivid language, the lengths to which God goes to bring us to Himself.
Tim LaHaye, Co-author of the Left Behind series

Blessed Child is truly the best fiction I've read. Once I started to read it, I couldn't stop. The story created warmth, tears and joy. Finally, I realized my emotions were about my love for Jesus. I had given the book full reality in my mind, and I was learning of God's love and grace in a new and exciting way.
Lowell W. Paxson, Chairman, PAX-TV

Bill Bright and Ted Dekker have written a fast-paced thriller of apocalyptic dimensions. The book will move you to wonder...
Charles W Colson, Prison Fellowship Ministries

Dr. Bill Bright, who has walked with the Spirit throughout one of the great ministries of our time, has chosen with his co-author to appropriate the format of the novel in order to convey the insights yielded in his own life and experience. Blessed Child provides stimulating and enlightening reading for Christians and nonbelievers alike.
D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., Senior Minister, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

The transforming power of the Holy Spirit has been Bill right's lifelong passion. What better way to communicate this message than in a compelling story? I enthusiastically recommend this unique approach to a timeless and timely subject.
Josh McDowell, Josh McDowell Ministries

Ted Dekker and Bill Bright hit upon the power of storytelling to transmit truth in a way that will touch today's readers in ways perhaps few methods can do so effectively. Surprisingly real-to-life storyline, believable dialogue yet transcendent truth served up in a real page-turner.
Byron Barlowe, Editor, Leadership University (LeaderU.com)

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