EVIL AS IT IS
Henri Nouwen tells the story of a family he knew in Paraguay. The father was a doctor who spoke out against the oppressive government there and its human rights abuses. The local police took revenge on him by arresting his teenage son and torturing him to death. It was a brutal and senseless murder. The father responded with the most powerful protest imaginable. At the funeral, the father did not have the son’s body embalmed and restored to an attractive memory. Rather, he displayed his son’s body as he found it in the jail — naked, scarred and twisted from the electrical shocks, open sores from the beatings, and burns from cigarettes. All the villagers filed past the grotesque corpse, which lay not in a coffin, but on the blood-soaked mattress from the prison. It’s a horrid story, but the reality of evil was not covered up. You and I gather again to worship under the cross. That’s another horrid…
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