evil computer world

Ahhh!!! So, I was just going to update a website that we supposedly have for the Camino, which we will be walking this summer with university students (as we do every summer) and which we were planning on begin advertising tomorrow, but it seems that we are a bit technologically challenge or possibly too trusting that other people know what they are doing or something...

The problem, I think, is that the domain site wasn't renewed and thus it disappeared out of existence sometime in the past few days. Ahhh!!! So, right now I don't entirely know what that means. I'm assuming we lost what was there before, which sucks, and I'm assuming that it won't be too hard to get it back the domain, but that we'll probably be starting from ZERO. Hmm... oh well. I'm hoping that some of my computer savvy friends might be of some help both in figuring out how you buy or renew a domain and in recovering the former page. If you have any suggestions, I'd love the help. I'm going to send out a few socorro (help) e-mails and then hit the hay... each day has enough trouble of its own. :-)

a brief excerpt

So, here is a brief excerpt from the book i recommended yesterday by nt wright:

"...the line between good and evil is never simply between 'us' and 'them.' The line between good and evil runs through each one of us. There is such a thing as wickedness... but nor must we suppose that the problem of evil can be either addressed or solved if we trivialize it in the other way, of labeling some people 'good' and other people 'bad'...

If we are not to reach in an immature way, either by ignoring evil, or by declaring it's all the other person's fault, or by taking the blame on ourselves, we need a deeper and more nuanced way of answering the question many (not least the politicians) are asking: Why is this happening? What, if anything, has God done about it? And what can we or should we be doing about it?

The Christian belief... is that the God who made the world remains passionately and compassionately involved with it. Classical Judaism and classical Christianity never held an immature or shallow view of evil... In particular, there is a noble Christian tradition which takes evil so seriously that it warns against the temptation to 'solve' it in any obvious way... We cannot and must not soften the blow; we cannot and must not pretend that evil isn't that bad after all...

...for the Christian, the problem is how to understand and celebrate the goodness and God-givenness of creation and, at the same time, understand and face up to the reality and seriousness of evil. It is easy to 'solve' the problem by watering down one side or the other, saying either that the world isn't really God's good creation or that evil isn't really that bad after all...

The sea is powerful, but God the Creator is more powerful still. Evil may still be a four-letter word. But so, thank God, is love."

just a book recommendation. in light of thinking about death and evil and then the character of God, i picked up a book i've had for a little while which is both honest and good. "Evil and the Justice of God" by NT Wright.