SoulPancake encourages its community to ask and answer hard questions about life, faith, God, spirituality and our world. The recent earthquake in Haiti prompted Rainn Wilson to ask how people of faith reconcile God, suffering and prayer. Before I answer, this post tells describes why I like SoulPancake and the questions it challenges us to think about and answer and why Rainn’s question is something we should all be able to answer.

It was recently brought to my attention (thanks for the comment!) that’s it’s been a while since my last post. The end of the year is often hectic. That isn’t the real reason for things slowing down though.