The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was a mighty Great Lakes freighter which sank in a storm on Lake Superior in November, 1975, taking 29 sailors to a watery grave. The tragedy was immortalized in Canadian folk rock balladeer Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting 1976 hit “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald“. I’ve listened to the song innumerable times over the years, but yesterday I was hit by the following lyric:
“Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?”
Aye, as eloquent and succinct a statement of the problem of evil as I’ve come across…
