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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 Editorial I keep forgetting to post links to my columns on RelevantMagazine.com; I'm the Deeper Walk editor, so I'm responsible for acquiring and editing the content for that entire subsection of the site. (Incidentally, if you're interested in freelancing for Relevant, check out the writers' guidelines--it's slightly out-of-date thanks to shifting things around for the new website; I believe we're now publishing fourteen feature-length articles a week.) Click the links: Hope in the Dark: The situation with Hurricane Katrina has raised a number of issues, but the one that has been most on my mind is that of hope. In times of trial or pain, how do we respond ourselves? How do we respond to others who are suffering? As a musician, my first instinct is to turn to song, but when I first saw the coverage of the Superdome, I had to wonder if music could bring hope in such circumstances or if it was utterly irrelevant. When you--and thousands of others--don't have food and water, much less a home, is melody rendered trite? Left Wondering: When we look at injustice and pain and failure, yelling to God, "Why?" he doesn’t just stand impassively, shaking his head at our audacity—-he grieves for us, with us. Even as we wonder why he doesn’t seem to be taking action. Happy reading, and let me know what you think of the columns. ^ Top | 10:58 PM | | | 
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