“‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’?”

The latest specimen of my weekly column for the Deseret News is now up:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865654549/Sweet-are-the-uses-of-adversity.html

Sigh.  One of my regular atheist critics is already complaining about supposed religious glorification of suffering — as if my column had advocated or endorsed anything remotely like that.

Posted from Richmond, Virginia