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Struggle is Faithfulness: Thoughts from Inside Chronic Illness

Jenna Wysong Filbrun
May 25, 2021
General, Theology
However, is God directly responsible for one person’s healing while another suffers or dies? When God gets credit for the first outcome but not the second, it leaves the second person (and/or their loved ones) invisible, insignificant, and clearly excluded from God’s circle of care.  

Come to Me All You Who are Angry

Esther Sparks
May 10, 2021
Church Life, General, Theology
Sketch drawn from a photograph in the Associated Press. A woman in the crowd lowers her mask to wail when she hears the grand jury decision regarding the death of Breonna Taylor.

An Inheritance of Suffering: A Review of ‘This Too Shall Last’

Sue Fulmore
July 28, 2020
Books, Church Life, General
She becomes a loving whistleblower uncovering the ways the church has failed to embrace suffering as part of its inheritance, and how the suffering ones have been left on the scrap heap of success-driven Christianity.

Grieving Exclusion: A Liturgy of Lament

Britney Winn Lee
February 27, 2019
Church Life, Global, LGBTQ+
Help us be good to each other, as Christ was good to us.

Growing in the Dark

Richard Fowler
February 4, 2019
General, Theology
The hard times we experience are not meaningless or hopeless.

Why God Can’t Take Away Suffering

Michael Rans
January 17, 2019
Books, Theology
Believing that God is controlling doesn't make the world any safer or us any more protected.

Man Enough to Ask for Help

Romal J. Tune
October 10, 2018
Church Life, Theology
I am grateful that I didn’t take the “just pray about it” approach to dealing with real emotional pain and trauma.

‘Gratitude is Not a Happy Pill’

Jana Riess
May 3, 2018
Books, Church Life, Theology
This is not your typical hearts-and-flowers gratitude book. This accounts for suffering and despair and unexpected election results...This is gratitude on the ground with the feet of people who are fighting and marching for a better world.

Remember that Out of Death Comes Life

Nikole Lim
April 9, 2014
General, Global
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APRIL 9, 2014 | BY: NIKOLE LIM -- Rwanda’s scenic roads trigger many memories for Joseph. As we drove on, he continued...

Remembering Rwanda: A Pilgrimage of Immense Pain & Tremendous Hope

Nikole Lim
April 7, 2014
General, Global
APRIL 7, 2014 | BY: NIKOLE LIM -- After a series of traumatic experiences that culminated with my hospitalization in Zambia...
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