The Tears of Things

by Peter J. Leithart

Having suffered all, Christ can sympathize with all. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Continue Reading »

15 Apr 2022

The Power of Pain

by Peter J. Leithart

Humans have always avoided painful conditions, but today our instinct to recoil has been institutionalized.  Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Pain, World, God

by Mark Bauerlein

The frequency of my headaches has dropped to one every six weeks or so. (I never say that without giving thanks three times.) For twenty years, they hit every third or fourth day, a twinge at 10 a.m. spreading into a steel net circling my head and tightening slowly, slowly, until it hurt to blink. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2018

Heart's Knowledge

by Arne Rasmusson

Disability, Providence, and Ethics: Bridging Gaps, Transforming Lives
 by hans s. reinders 
baylor, 248 pages, $49.95 What sort of world do we live in? Is it a world of chance and fortune without meaning? When bad things happen, an accident or an illness, is it only bad luck? Or is there a . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2015

Justice and Helplessness

by Phillip Cary

I have been trying to understand the justice in God’s speeches in Genesis 3:14-19. For this is the context in which to make sense of the great puzzle I find in his words to the woman: “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” (3:16). It is, strikingly, the first time . . . . Continue Reading »

31 Dec 2013

The Painful Good

by Phillip Cary

In the story of Genesis, why do we hear of the woman’s desire for her husband only after the first disobedience? The answer must lie in the interlocking meaning of all three speeches in Genesis 3:14-19,  where God speaks in sequence to the serpent, the woman and the man.The common thread of . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Dec 2013