3 reasons the warfare metaphor is problematic
cancer
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
Immunotherapy’s believers and skeptics
Some scientists couldn’t quite explain what they were seeing. Others literally couldn’t believe it.
When illness undoes us
Deanna Thompson's book about cancer takes us where we don't want to go but must.
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “return.”
Anya saw the world in colors.
How a doctor finds hope at a Jerusalem hospital
Pediatric oncologist Elisha Waldman explores a city's complexities as he reflects on his patients' spiritual needs.
Kate Bowler faces off against cancer and bad theology
Bowler's memoir honestly confronts the pervasive idea that we get what we deserve.
Dying—and living—with breast cancer
Nina Riggs's love of the world shines through her memoir, even as the ground shifts beneath her.
The grace of real and virtual presence
Theologian Deanna Thompson used to criticize the pervasive technological creep overtaking our lives. Then she was diagnosed with cancer.
Death's call and our response
Even in the secular imagination, dying has become a vocation.
Answers without questions
Reading Steve and Sharol Hayner's cancer story, I found myself taking on the role of Job's adversary.
That Dragon, Cancer is a unique video game: it offers us the experience of our powerlessness.
And what would happen if we didn't?
Cancer and good news
Todd Billings weaves his struggle with a rare form of blood cancer together with probing biblical and theological reflection.