How Do I Come to Terms With Violence in the Bible?
Question: I’m an adult reading the Bible for the first time. The Old Testament contains a lot of violence, including the deaths of women and…
suffering
On Suffering: How I Stopped Asking ‘Why’ and Started Asking ‘How’
Actor Ed Asner said, “Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.” He couldn’t have been more correct! The absolute best, most joy-filled thing…
I CAN’T FIND THE ‘SAVE’ PLACE!
My young daughter is riding out the wet and rather depressing days partly by playing some entrancing video games. Despite my occasional hand-wringing and guilty…
The Book of Job
In the Old Testament Class for which the paper was being written, we discussed how the personification of divine insight in the Hebrew Scriptures is often referred to as “Woman Wisdom.” But sitting in a waiting room to find out if I had cancer, I could not help but wonder if I was also being joined by “Dame Irony.”