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The God I Don’t Understand: Reflections on Tough Questions of Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

If we are honest, we have to admit that there are many things we don’t understand about God. We do not have final answers to the deep problems of life, and those who say they do are probably living in some degree of delusion. There are areas of mystery in our Christian faith that lie beyond the keenest scholarship or even the most profound spiritual exercises. For many people, these problems...

The conquest is consistently and repeatedly set within the framework of God’s international justice and punishment. I believe this makes a major difference to how we read and understand the whole story. It is repeatedly portrayed as God acting in judgment on a wicked and degraded society and culture—as God would do again and again in Old Testament history, including against Israel itself. In that sense, although the story is unique and limited (as we have
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