How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
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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.
Theodicy in real life
William Abraham's theological affirmations of faith are shadowed by a persistent question: Why don't they work?
A Christian apologist's memoir of suffering
Telling the story of his wife's tragic illness, Douglas Groothuis combines lament with grace-filled love.
Christian Wiman and the poetry of joy
In this anthology of poems selected by Wiman, joy comes in modest and unlikely guise.
Kate Bowler faces off against cancer and bad theology
Bowler's memoir honestly confronts the pervasive idea that we get what we deserve.
Faith doesn't take away our suffering. It promises we're not alone.
People do terrible things. So does the biblical God. Is there value in naming those things?
Muslims and Christians can live peacefully together. I've seen it.