{"id":9227,"date":"2026-06-01T22:28:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9227"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:28:52","slug":"the-problem-of-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9227","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rohr65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rohr65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rohr65.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rohr65-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Centuries of philosophy have tried to solve the problem of evil, yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding issue is the problem of good.  How do we account for so much gratuitous and sheer goodness in this world?  Tackling this problem would achieve much better results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Rohr, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/yes_and.html\">Yes . . . And: Daily Meditations<\/a><\/em>, p. 288<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burnside Farms, Nokesville, Virginia, April 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries of philosophy have tried to solve the problem of evil, yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding issue is the problem of good. How do we account for so much gratuitous and sheer goodness in this world? Tackling this problem would achieve much better results. &#8212; Richard Rohr, Yes . . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9782,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9227\/revisions\/9782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}