were unopened under the tree. What a tragedy! Kushner, and many others, would say that ‘accident’ was a meaningless, insignificant, and purposeless event. Jon Tal Murphree tells of a girl who suffered a similar fate as my friend: ‘The child died a victim of casual laws, a victim of circumstance. We have reason to believe that her death was an accident, nothing more’ (A Loving God and a Suffering World, 46). Finally, and most significantly, that position states that God has no control over bad things.