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Creation and Animal Suffering

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In a couple of hours, I plan to engage my Christian theology class here at Southern Seminary in a discussion of cosmic origins and the problem of evil. Today we’ll be talking specifically about animal suffering, and how that fits with our understanding of God and ourselves.

For a fuller account of how I think the Bible addresses predation, carnivory, and so forth, see my article “All Things Dark and Terrible” from a couple of years ago in Touchstone. My original title was “Where the Wild Things Are,” but there’s some buttoned-up title-reviser in our offices in Chicago who always tones such things down.

Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.

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About Russell Moore

Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of the forthcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America (Penguin Random House).

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