Welcome to January. It’s that time of year for resolutions and for churches to hand out bumper-sticker rhyming marketing slogans for what God is going to do in the coming year.
The slaughter of civilians on 10/7 was one of those events so horrific and wanton in their violence that it shook many out of the complacency of their daily grind. It made them face the grim reality of a malevolent evil to which most of us seldom give a second thought.