Should We Fire God?: Finding Hope in God When We Don't Understand Book

Given to me by a friend and VT alum who got it randomly sent to him in the mail. Jim Pace wrote this in response to the VT shootings, as he pastors a church in Blacksburg. His answer to the question in the title, obviously, is 'no'. I appreciated his honesty, sincerity, and the insight into the struggles he's experienced after he became a Christian, the VT shootings in particular.

I think he draws heavily on C.S. Lewis' "The Problem of Pain" (next up on my reading list). Ultimately, what it comes down to is faith. It's a good read if you have ever wondered about how a person of faith deals with pain and suffering in the context of a Christian worldview. I don't think Pace fell back to hand-waving or hollow fundamentalist sugarcoating. However, if you're looking for a scholarly, logical argument based book, Lewis is probably better. Not to say Pace wasn't logical, it's just that he had a different aim in mind.