BeliefNet listicle, part 1: cliches to stop saying when evil strikes
The hosts walk through the first three items of a BeliefNet article, 'Six things Christians need to stop saying when evil strikes' (read on-air with a co-host's name swapped into the title as a running gag): (1) 'everything happens for a reason,' which one host admits the room stands by but misuses as a comforting quip; (2) framing tragedy as 'an opportunity for the church,' critiqued as 'gotcha preaching' and 'never waste a good news cycle'; (3) 'we live in a broken world because of sin,' which a host confesses to having said poorly and being wrong about. The discussion ranges into God's wrath, justice, and the Hebrew etymology of wrath as 'flared nostrils.'
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