Healing Faith A reader by the name of Katherine recently e-mailed me. She had lost her husband, a man some years older than she, to multiple myeloma and Alzheimer’s disease. She is a Christian, and is struggling to make sense of his death, and the difficult questions of why God allows suffering. She writes, after…
Category: Challenges
The Temperature of Hell
The Temperature of Hell This is the second of two posts on the subject of Hell. The first may be found here: ♦ The Death of Hell On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question: I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man of…
God of Loss and Grace
There is no answer to the question why? in the walk of faith. It is a foolish question — we could not understand the answer were it given, and to know why would destroy the how, and the when, and the for which purpose. The answer is unfathomable. To know why? is to be God — and despite my aspirations, I don’t have the resume for the job.
Absolute Fools
In a recent discussion of the worldview of contemporary postmodern liberalism, a commenter left the following missive: Your essay would have value if there were absolutes. Never have been, never shall be. Our standards of behavior are devised by us, and used or misused by us. We decide which is good and which is evil,…