The Seattle Times has this about one Lutheran church in a Nairobi slum attempting to cope with the inter-tribal massacres spawned by the recent presidential election.
I couldn’t help but think of this, from Luther’s book of Spiritual Consolations :
“If the devil could keep peace, we too should have more peace and less to do, especially less to suffer. Be this as it may, we have the advantage of possessing the precious Word of God, which comforts and sustains us in this life and promises and gives us salvation in the world to come. Moreover, we have prayer, which . . . we know pleases God and will be heard in time.”
By way of Gene Veith, over at his Cranach blog .
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