Man Refuses to Deny Jesus While under Attack

Following Sunday worship services on January 8, 2006, five young men attacked and threatened to kill a Protestant church leader in Turkey's fourth ...

Blind to the Suffering World

Poet T.S. Eliot writes:

We have seen the young man mutilated, The torn girl trembling by the millstream. And meanwhile we have gone on living ... We have ...

The "Why" to Live

When Jewish psychiatrist Victor Frankl was arrested by the Nazis in World War II, he was stripped of everything--property, family, possessions. He had ...

Suffering Is Never Meaningless

Suffering can never ultimately be meaningless, because God himself has shared it.

A Prayer for the Persecutors

We pray and we entreat God, whom those men [persecutors] do not cease to provoke and exasperate, that they may soften their hearts, that they may return ...

The Inhumanity of Evil

Evil is not human; it is the defect and opposite of the human; but the suffering that follows it is human, belonging of necessity to the human that has ...

Reconciling God and Suffering

It is good to learn early enough that suffering and God are not a contradiction but rather a unity, for the idea that God himself is suffering is one ...

Wind Makes Us Strong

For two years, scientists sequestered themselves in an artificial environment called Biosphere 2. Inside their self-sustaining community, the Biospherians ...

Man Finds Himself in Misery

O what a giant is man when he fights against himself, and what a dwarf when he needs or exercises his own assistance for himself. ... Man hath no center ...

Why, God?

Is not the question "Why is God letting this happen to me?" really a question that seeks to find out how God feels toward me? When I have pursued ...