We in the Shadow - Riley, Michael D.
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For centuries the belief that God was directly engaged in our individual lives has comforted untold numbers of people, but today that belief is being challenged by many within the community of faith. The randomness of violence, innocent suffering, and inexplicable evil has pushed believers to question whether God is personal in any meaningful way. How can we believe that God is involved in our daily lives when so often God appears deaf to our prayers and indifferent to our broken world? We in the Shadow explores how or in what way God may be personal. Unless this question can somehow be…mehr

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For centuries the belief that God was directly engaged in our individual lives has comforted untold numbers of people, but today that belief is being challenged by many within the community of faith. The randomness of violence, innocent suffering, and inexplicable evil has pushed believers to question whether God is personal in any meaningful way. How can we believe that God is involved in our daily lives when so often God appears deaf to our prayers and indifferent to our broken world? We in the Shadow explores how or in what way God may be personal. Unless this question can somehow be thoughtfully and practically answered, faith will be viewed as an option only for those who skim over the incomprehensibly cruel surfaces of life with eyes closed and fingers stuck firmly in their ears.
Autorenporträt
Michael D. Riley, who passed away on February 23, 2019, shortly after completing Pattern Evidence, published six collections of poetry, most recently Ordinary Time: Poems for the Liturgical Year (Wipf & Stock, 2016). His poems appeared in many periodicals, including Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, America, and Southern Humanities Review, and in two recent anthologies (The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust). He was emeritus professor of English from Penn State University and lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.