The Eight Stupidest “Christian” Explanations for Suffering

<p>When I was a 19-year-old youth group leader in a local church, I remember the day that two of my fellow youth group leaders fronted up to confess their sins to the pastor.</p> <p>My two friends, one guy and one girl, had been dating for quite some time, and well&hellip; you know&hellip; one thing lead to another, and now they were sitting in the pastor&rsquo;s office about to announce their unexpected pregnancy. Being unmarried teenagers, they had committed the cardinal sin of the evangelical church world, and now they were bracing for a fresh spray of righteous indignation from the gatekeeper of their faith.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-eight-stupidest-christian-explanations-for-suffering-0619c8192f32"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>