Is it possible to pray for justice and yet love our enemy at the same time?

Twenty one ways to love people and honor Christ in any tragedy.

How can our hope be steady on days like 9-11?

We surrender our hope if we sacrifice our belief in the sovereignty of God over evil.

It was a gift to the world that God ordained a rugged cross to stand in the ruins of the World Trade Center towers.

September 11, 2001 has served to prove at least these ten truths about the sovereign love of God.

Christ Jesus is a great hope, even for the worst of sinners.

What does it mean that Christ is supreme over a world filled with tragedy?

This poem is a new start of an old tradition in American journalism: the news poem. Hardly a vile murder or a military victory went by without colonial poets bemoaning or celebrating the occasion in verse, with the work then published on a single page “broadside” and sold for a penny. Happily, my favorite pastor/theologian, John Piper, is also a poet, and below are his thoughts on justice in regard to Connecticut’s school shooting and Boston’s Marathon bombing. —Marvin Olasky