Preachers and public figures have often used natural disaster as an occasion to opine about God’s justice, or lack thereof. Or to make the definitive case against a divine order. But Haiti deserves to be addressed on its own terms, and in relation to the needs of those still suffering.
Paula M. Cooey
Paula Cooey serves as the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Harmon Professor of Religion at Macalester College. Her latest book is Willing the Good: Jesus, Dissent, and Desire, published by Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006.
