Andrew Klavan

We can actually live in this kind of, in this joy without fear once we understand what it is we're fighting inside ourselves.

We can actually live in this kind of, in this joy without fear once we understand what it is we're fighting inside ourselves.

You know, this is what the full thesis, the full theory of the book is that the only response to evil is beauty. And, you know, Dostoevsky said beauty will save the world. And the reason I believe that to be true is because when you get into these conversations, how can there be a good God who's all powerful and all omniscient and yet there's evil in the world?

You know, this is what the full thesis, the full theory of the book is that the only response to evil is beauty. And, you know, Dostoevsky said beauty will save the world. And the reason I believe that to be true is because when you get into these conversations, how can there be a good God who's all powerful and all omniscient and yet there's evil in the world?

You know, this is what the full thesis, the full theory of the book is that the only response to evil is beauty. And, you know, Dostoevsky said beauty will save the world. And the reason I believe that to be true is because when you get into these conversations, how can there be a good God who's all powerful and all omniscient and yet there's evil in the world?

And this keeps a lot of people from coming to faith. It keeps a lot of people from believing. They look around. I can't tell you how many times people have said to me, oh, you believe things, but I just see so much evil in the world I can't believe.

And this keeps a lot of people from coming to faith. It keeps a lot of people from believing. They look around. I can't tell you how many times people have said to me, oh, you believe things, but I just see so much evil in the world I can't believe.

And this keeps a lot of people from coming to faith. It keeps a lot of people from believing. They look around. I can't tell you how many times people have said to me, oh, you believe things, but I just see so much evil in the world I can't believe.

But the idea that there is an overall beauty to the design of the world, and you can see it, you experience it when you see the world rightly, and that only comes across in art. It only comes across, I can only communicate it to you in storytelling, in music, in painting.

But the idea that there is an overall beauty to the design of the world, and you can see it, you experience it when you see the world rightly, and that only comes across in art. It only comes across, I can only communicate it to you in storytelling, in music, in painting.

But the idea that there is an overall beauty to the design of the world, and you can see it, you experience it when you see the world rightly, and that only comes across in art. It only comes across, I can only communicate it to you in storytelling, in music, in painting.

I mean, how many times have you looked at a painting in a museum of some horrifying thing, even the cover of this book, which is a beautiful painting of Cain killing Abel, It has a gorgeous painting of it. And you look at it and you think, that painting is so beautiful. But what I'm looking at is horrific. It's a crucifixion. It's Cain killing Abel.

I mean, how many times have you looked at a painting in a museum of some horrifying thing, even the cover of this book, which is a beautiful painting of Cain killing Abel, It has a gorgeous painting of it. And you look at it and you think, that painting is so beautiful. But what I'm looking at is horrific. It's a crucifixion. It's Cain killing Abel.

I mean, how many times have you looked at a painting in a museum of some horrifying thing, even the cover of this book, which is a beautiful painting of Cain killing Abel, It has a gorgeous painting of it. And you look at it and you think, that painting is so beautiful. But what I'm looking at is horrific. It's a crucifixion. It's Cain killing Abel.

It's some terrible disaster that takes place in the Bible or in mythology. And yet some artist has found the beauty in it. My question, the book ends with the question, if human beings can do that. with the evil that they experience. What can God not do of the entire experience of creation?

It's some terrible disaster that takes place in the Bible or in mythology. And yet some artist has found the beauty in it. My question, the book ends with the question, if human beings can do that. with the evil that they experience. What can God not do of the entire experience of creation?

It's some terrible disaster that takes place in the Bible or in mythology. And yet some artist has found the beauty in it. My question, the book ends with the question, if human beings can do that. with the evil that they experience. What can God not do of the entire experience of creation?

And so this broken creation that we're in, this creation that's so full of things that darken us, is actually part of a design so beautiful that when we finally see it, I think we will understand that our joy was always joy and our joy was always the reality and not our sorrow. And I think that that is, you're absolutely right. This is so true.

And so this broken creation that we're in, this creation that's so full of things that darken us, is actually part of a design so beautiful that when we finally see it, I think we will understand that our joy was always joy and our joy was always the reality and not our sorrow. And I think that that is, you're absolutely right. This is so true.

And so this broken creation that we're in, this creation that's so full of things that darken us, is actually part of a design so beautiful that when we finally see it, I think we will understand that our joy was always joy and our joy was always the reality and not our sorrow. And I think that that is, you're absolutely right. This is so true.