Leaving the Keys in the Ignition and Letting the Devil Drive

Leaving the Keys in the Ignition and Letting the Devil Drive

Last Saturday, I ran by a cafe where my wife had set me up with a free cup of coffee a day. I spotted the table where a half-dozen men were gathered to talk about Elisabeth Elliot’s Suffering Is Never for Nothing. I’d been tipped off the day before, and I thought I’d bring a sampling of books on the problem of evil. I’d just taught a course on it at New Saint Andrews College in Idaho, and, as a Wheaton prof in the 1970s, I’d walk past a relief s…