Honest Questions in Suffering: A Discussion on Job’s Journey In this episode of Sermon Notes Podcast, hosts Brian Ball and Jay Strother embark on a profound exploration of the Book of Job, delving into the enduring questions of human suffering and divine providence. This episode offers a deeply introspective examination
In his “Philosophy of Composition,” an essay written about the process of writing “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe famously claims that “the death . . . of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.” He wrote these words in 1846, a year before his young wife,
A Child and His Mother The redemption of suffering and the mystery of love are inseparable. The response to suffering is not to stop caring—that, in fact, is hell—but to experience a caring that sustains us in our humanity as it was meant to be. This is the redemption that
O my Saviour, make me see How dearly Thou has paid for me; That, lost again, my life may prove, As then in death, so now in love. —Richard Crashaw, “Charitas Nimia; or, the Dear Bargain” I am exhausted, that special kind of deprivation that can come only after being