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#1 I was a young reporter fresh out of journalism school, and my first assignment was to write a thirty-part series on destitute families living in Chicago. I quickly found myself immersed in Chicago's underbelly of deprivation and desperation.

#2 I visited the slums of Bombay, India, and was shocked by the sight of children playing in the open sewage ditches. I wondered where God was in that hellish scene.

#3 We all experience pain and sorrow. We wonder why God allows it, and we wonder if he is loving and all-powerful. But the truth is, he allows it because it's part of his plan.

#4 The biggest obstacle for spiritual seekers is the presence of suffering, which means that God may not be the author of the horrors we have been describing. To believe in a loving and omnipotent Father, we must paper over the reality of evil and pain around us.