How people deal with pointless suffering
Scott Samuelson considers seven responses to the age-old mystery.
Theology
David Bentley Hart’s polemic against the alleged doctrine of eternal hell
Hart thunders like Amos against cruel, incoherent religion.
Politics, parenting, and other secular things we put our faith in
We’re religious about lots of things, says David Zahl. Just not God.
Bearing witness, challenging God, voicing lament
An incident in Germany reminded me who we all belong to.
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
The unmodern Luther
Christine Helmer threatens to dash to pieces the pieties of modern Luther scholarship.
Take & read: Practical theology
New books that are shaping conversations about practical theology
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.
Candida Moss asks what bodily resurrection means
How early Christians thought about bodies and how we do
The relational religion of Martin Buber
Behind the man’s life’s work is a broken-hearted child.
Jesus in conversation with three women in the Gospels
What the Bible doesn't say about hell
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