The earthquake in Haiti makes Christians think. Mostly it makes us think, 'How can we help?'. For some, young in the faith, it rocks their confidence that God is Love. That is not easily answered on a blog but a big clue comes from the Biblical statement that the greatest demonstration of God's love to disobedient human beings was not a new baby, a wonderful meal, a fine climate or the end of a great war. It was a crucifixion.
Earthquakes are not easy, either, for people who oppose faith. The people of Haiti might be feeling very angry with their Creator just now. Better, though, to be a bewildered believer than to think of oneself as a self-contained blip among billions of others on an accidental fabric of meaningless history where incidental earthquakes take tens of thousands of other blips, including your family, out early.
If you click on to the Disasters Emergency Committee website you find that almost every charity there owes its existence to people of Faith. As it happens several of them, including ActionAid and Help the Aged, owe their existence in some measure to one man! CJC's legacy is helping Haiti 30 years after his own death.
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