Category: Hard Questions
Doubt, suffering, silence and unanswered prayer, handled honestly and without pretending there is a system that settles them.
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Grief Has No Timetable
A time to mourn and a time to dance. Both are listed, and neither is the correct one. On our impatience with other people’s grief, and why it is really about us.
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Job’s Friends Were Right About Almost Everything
Most of what Job’s friends said about God was true, and God told them they had spoken wrongly about him. What went wrong was not their theology.
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Elijah slept first
Elijah asks to die, and the first answer he gets is not a word. It is food, and sleep, and then food again. The order is the point.