suffering
A theological exploration in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book
Bethany Sollereder explores different approaches to understanding suffering—and enacts one.
Sometimes vocation springs not from joy but from trauma and grief.
He carries the hesitant masculinity of Twilight’s Edward Cullen in his body.
A nine-year-old at my church wants to know.
Kate Bowler finds good news in hard truths
No Cure for Being Human offers a model for negotiating suffering with honesty.
The play’s universal themes rest on a Christian eschatological vision.
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.