Editorial May 13, 1985 ISSUE

A God large enough for large-scale problems

ALLISON W. PHINNEY, JR.

Television brings the world's hunger and its many other problems to our own dinner table. And who doesn't yearn to find a way to help with racial conflicts, famine, missing children, or brutal oppression. There's enough trouble to make tears run like rivers.

But when it comes to finding solutions for these large-scale ills, many people feel religion to be impractical except to the extent it throws its support behind conventional worldly methods.

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