ABSTRACT
Vital to the success of the seminar is a careful selection of the readings which are, in the end, the real teachers. According to George Anastaplo of the Chicago Public Schools Socratic Seminar, The ultimate leaders of the best seminar discussions are the authors of the best books. President Obama, in his speech to the parents of the victims at Newtown, Connecticut, Unconscionable Evil, reveals the power of his eloquent rhetoric; he spoke as a parent, confidentially, to parents who must somehow cope with what is any parents greatest nightmarethe loss of a child. Like Job, who never lost his trust in the God who-shows-up even when he had lost everything his children, his health, his status, and his wealth Obama recognizes as Job learned that there is no answer to the paradox of how God can be good and yet tolerate evil.
