At the Table of Evil

WHERE DID EVIL COME FROM?WHY DOES GOD LET IT HAPPEN?AND WILL IT EVER END?A drunk driver killed Joe’s son. A gunman shot Raj’s night clerk for two hundred dollars. Claire signed the paper that sent a four-year-old boy home to the mother who killed him. A tornado took Lorraine’s house and left her neighbor’s without a scratch.Every Tuesday night for nineteen weeks, they sit down at a table in a Baptist fellowship hall with a pastor and a man named Socrates, who will not let anyone off easy, not even the pastor. A room full of people listens and slips anonymous questions into a wooden box. Some are written in a hand that shakes.At the Table of Evil doesn’t hand out easy answers. It puts eleven beliefs about evil on the table, from karma to 'it was written' to 'it’s whatever society decides,' and follows each one to where it leads in real life. It shows that evil isn’t a thing God made. It is the good that should be there and isn’t, the way darkness is the absence of light. And it shows why that changes everything about how we grieve, forgive, and hope.Inside you will find:• A simple path to find what you believe about evil, and to see if you’ve moved by the end• Honest answers on why God allows suffering, without blaming Him for it• What God has done about evil at the cross, and how it ends• Nineteen ready-to-teach lessons for classes and pulpitsThere is no number on the scale too low for God.Dennis R. Piearcy has pastored for thirty-five years in Oklahoma. He has sat with people in hospital rooms, at gravesides, and on the night the phone call came.