Hope for a hurting world

Xander Coomber  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Jun 2023
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Hope for a hurting world

BROKEN PLANET:
If there’s a God, then why are there
natural disasters and diseases?
By Sharon Dirckx
IVP. 216 pages. £10.99
ISBN 978 1 789 740 929

There are few questions that might cause someone to doubt the existence of a loving God more than natural disaster and disease.

When mutating cells lead to a terminal cancer diagnosis, or the movements of the earth lead to devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, our anger and hurt make it easy to dismiss any notion of a good God.

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