God Can't Be Kept Out: Hope in the Midst of Darkness

During the season of Advent, following a mass-shooting tragedy, Rachel Held Evans pleads to see the light, even in the darkness .

Those little Advent candles sure have a lot of darkness to overcome this year. I see them glowing from church windows and on TV, in homes and at midnight vigils, here in Dayton and in Sandy Hook. Their stubborn flames represent the divine promise that even the smallest light can chase away the shadows lurking in this world, that even in the darkest places, God can’t be kept out.