Some folks sure know how to mangle Scripture: There’s never a dull moment when you have an interactive blogsite. Every day you get all sorts…
Some thoughts on the Waukesha terror: You don’t have to be a Wisconsin resident, as I have been, to know about some recent big news…
These are among the most frightening and shocking words found in Scripture: Chatting online with some old friends in Europe the other day I mentioned…
Pain stinks, but it can often serve useful and redemptive purposes: OK, my title can go in all sorts of directions, and in a moment…
God is in control, and we are responsible for our choices. How exactly this works is a mystery: There are many things mere fallen and…
Malcolm Muggeridge had a lot of wise words to say about suffering: For two thousand years all committed Christians have known about the incalculable value…
It is time for Western Christians to develop a theology of suffering: I have often written on this theme, but when I did a quick…
We need to see the bigger picture as we look around at what is happening to us: In his 1983 Templeton Prize speech Alexander Solzhenitsyn…
If your heart breaks over all the injustice in life, here is good news: Everywhere in this fallen world we see countless cases of injustice…
Lessons from Joni on hardship and suffering: That suffering is something we all experience to varying degrees is simply a fact of life in a…
In dark times we are right to ask God when he will intervene and bring forth justice: We have all asked the question “How long?”…
One’s worldview determines how we approach things like the corona crisis: Two nights ago on television there was a replay of the 1996 film Independence…
Christians should pray the imprecatory psalms: While divine justice will fully and finally be meted out in the next life, Christians can and should seek…
We SHOULD be angry about what is happening. But how we deal with that anger is crucial: I have much more time to write articles…
There is so much to be gleaned from this terrific book: Having just bought a number of new editions of some old C. S. Lewis…
Christians should have a far different response to suffering than atheists: Can one accept the reality of God and of suffering, and not have a…
Here are a number of important books dealing with suffering, pain and evil and how we might respond: We all suffer in various ways, so…
We all can learn so much from the life and writings of Elisabeth Elliot: Many of you know about the remarkable American Christian missionary and…
Many believers throughout the ages have experienced what appears to be the silence, absence, distance, hiddenness, or unresponsiveness of God. Prayers seem to be unanswered,…