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DAWNINGS: Thinking about theodicy

<p>The Rev. Dawn Weaks is the co-pastor of Connection Church in Odessa.</p>

“It’s cancer.” That’s not what you want to hear when you’re in between taking your son to piano and your daughter to violin lessons. But four years ago, after my annual mammogram, the suspicious looking calcification had been biopsied, and wham. There you go. I kicked that cancer to the curb in October of 2015. But the theodicy lessons I learned from it have stuck with me.

Posted: October 12
Rev. Dawn Weaks, Philosophy Of Religion, God In Christianity

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