Silence, God, and the Gulf Coast Oil Spill

May 7, 2010
By Rev. Fletcher Harper
The Huffington Post

A seminary professor once taught me about the most important passage in the book of Job. From her perspective, the most significant passage was neither Satan’s convincing God to try Job’s faith by torturing him, nor the graphic descriptions of Job’s boils, nor God’s verbal counterattack from the whirlwind after Job finally lets God have it.