What would you say to Job?
Trying to think through how to present the story of Job in the context of an all-age service, I came across the Brick Testament – an amazing collection of illustrations of Bible stories done with Lego bricks!
As the lectionary picks up readings in Job over the next few weeks, it is an opportunity to reflect on the question of why bad things happen to good people, and whether our own theology is at all helpful when responding to others in times of tragedy.
If you are after something much deeper, and it will take more than Lego to deal with the huge questions that this book poses, Carol Newson’s The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations is well worth looking at. As is July 1999′s edition of Interpretation (Vol 53) which has a series of articles exploring the book of Job.
