God-Sized Tunnel, Tunnel-Sized Hole

The Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel is a brief thirty-minute drive from my childhood home. In 2020, it became part of the Shenandoah National Park. Since then I frequented the tunnel both alone and with friends or family.

While researching the intense history of the tunnel, I felt the juxtaposition between my religious upbringing and the injustice of exploited labor. This confrontation manifests in the age old question: can a just God exist in the face of suffering?