Paul Miller

Can we no longer ache as one heart?

Why is the condemnation and cogent and nonnegotiable resolve of a world community not expressed loudly, clearly, and in fateful terms, and then dealt with in the same manner?

There is no window into the soul of evil.

You can't see empty. You do feel it, which is the aim of cruel and senseless intentions. The content is discernible and disturbing: blood and bodies. The props are simple: guns and grenades. The desired effect is easily achieved: anxiety, anger, and deep-set fear.

Violence of the ilk perpetrated in Paris shakes us, literally. It is revelatory of a new and emerging world order that shouldn't surprise us; its reverberations, after all, are neither new nor infrequent.

Rational folks will want answers. There are no easy ones.

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