When emotional pain strikes with devastating force, many people find themselves searching for something greater than human wisdom to provide comfort and healing. Throughout centuries, specific Bible ...

Fellow believers might abandon you or cover you in happy talk. But the Bible offers companionship with saints who know sorrow. On many mornings I wake up early, my stiff body creaking as I pull on my ...

Speculating about the purpose of suffering is dangerous. Providing someone with too quick a response about its meaning does not respect the trauma of violence, especially violence suffered by the ...

In the first reading and the Gospel, we hear about the importance of service, which builds on themes from last Sunday’s readings. Today we are prompted to reflect on ways that we can serve one another ...

One of the great mysteries to believers and nonbelievers is that of evil and suffering. If there is a God who is omnipotent and omniscient, how can he tolerate evil, injustice and the suffering of the ...

Religious types usually indicate that suffering and loss are components of karma, the divine plan, an intrinsic part of life, the result of past actions, a segment of human experience, a test by God, ...