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Category Archives: Suffering

The Problem of Pain and God’s Good Assurance

“It is what it is” — I have so often found myself using this phrase. We all use it from time to time. I suppose it is something like saying “roll with the punches,” or perhaps “let the chips fall,” or “stuff happens.”

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Suffering, Hope, and Haiti

Over the last few days, we have been assaulted with the horrifying images of bodies being dumped into trucks, images of people not only without shelter… Read more»