I explore the meaning of God’s answer to Job by applying it to when I lost my oldest son.
Tag Archives: Suffering
God’s Answer to Job–and to Me
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Act in All Things as Love Will Prompt
My lectures on Flannery O’Connor, James Baldwin, Shakespeare and Sophocles all seem to track back to Lent these days.
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Crohn’s Disease and the Mariner’s Agony
A student with Crohn’s disease found a kindred soul in Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner.
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Thee Thyself We Cannot Lose
In a powerful four-line poem, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge sums up the main lesson in the Book of Job: even when we suffer, we still have God.
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Children Wrestling with Faith & Doubt
Alice Munro’s “Age of Faith” is a powerful portrait of how children turn to God–and also why they turn away.
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Books Helped Free Angelou’s Caged Bird
Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday, found strength in the literature of Shakespeare, Poe, Dunbar, and others.
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Making a Fetish of Suffering
Ivan Karamazov attacks those Christians who rationalize suffering by finding a higher purpose in it.
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