When Daryl van Tongeren lost his beloved brother, unexpectedly, at age 34, the loss made no sense to him. How could it? Van Tongeren was a lifelong Christian with “a very certain view of God and how God is supposed to work.”
Raised to believe that the world followed a kind of moral logic wherein good things happened to good people and God took care of those He loved, he felt his faith shake. Why would such a God allow his brother — “a good father, a good husband, a good brother, a good friend” in the prime of his life — to die, leaving a vulnerable new family utterly bereft?
