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The Trial of Tears
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Series: The Cross Examination, Book 5
Mystery & ThrillerChristian Fiction
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Publisher: Alfred Basta
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the goodness of God is placed on trial, an old sorrow becomes a public battlefield.
The United States of 2041 is a nation transformed by the Statute on Religious Authority. Private faith is legal, but defending religious truth claims from a public platform is a federal offense. Christian Cross, a fifty-two-year-old professor of apologetics at a small Christian university in eastern Tennessee, has already survived four grueling federal trials defending his faith.
But the fifth trial is the one he dreads most.
Reeling from the loss of his wife, Maren, to cancer three years prior, Cross is subpoenaed by the ruthless Office of Statutory Inquiry (OSI). The charge: Educational Truthfulness. The state argues that no honest educator can publicly teach the benevolence of an omnipotent God in a world shattered by incontrovertible suffering. To prove their case, the prosecution intends to drag Cross's most private agonizing moments into the light, admitting his intimate bedside journals into evidence and calling his wife's hospice chaplain to the stand.
In a Knoxville federal courtroom, a grieving father and scholar must stand before the bench to publicly defend the goodness of the God he held a dying woman's hand to. Driven by legal philosophy, raw grief, and theological depth, The Trial of Tears explores the profound intersection of the existential problem of evil, the necessity of lament, and the unshakeable hope found in the tears of a Savior who refuses to skip a step.
Can faith survive when your deepest sorrow is used as evidence against your soul?
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