Things You Ought to Know [but wish you didn't]

Slavery, in the classic sense. Going on. Right now.

From Philip Yancey's Reaching for the Invisible God:
"I cannot learn from Jesus why bad things occur - why an avalanche or flood decimates one town and not its neighbor, why lukemia strikes one child and not another - but I can surely learn how God feels about such tragedies. I simply look at how Jesus responds to the sisters of his good friend Lazarus, to a widow who has just lost her son, or a leprosy victim banned outside the town gates. Jesus gives God a face, and that face is streaked with tears."