The play’s universal themes rest on a Christian eschatological vision.
suffering
When I’m simply present to my own pain, I learn to be present to others’ pain, too.
These times call into question the nature and morality of power.
Margaret Renkl’s stunning ability to see
It is hard to say what will enamor readers more, the bird calls or the familial ones.
Christian Wiman’s poems of love and doubt
Massive struggle, intense suffering, and abundant joy
Discipleship-as-self-improvement doesn’t much resemble the way of Jesus.
He faces it.
How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
Talking about God in the face of wounds that won’t go away
The suffering Jesus in Shawn Copeland’s theology
African American spirituality and God’s act of solidarity
Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels
I used to have Jeremiah 29:11 in a frame on my wall. I don’t anymore.
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: "silence."
I've stopped trying to climb over it or knock it down. Now I just sit there.