
I hadn’t planned to discuss this topic, in part because I had another topic in mind but, more to the point, I’ve talked about it any number of times already.
I chose this subject because I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of any conversation about anything having to do with suffering, not just in Protestant circles but throughout the culture at large. It’s as if it’s a four-letter word. We simply will not talk about it.
Then again, suffering is as endemic to human existence as any other aspect of life. To avoid it seems unrealistic, if not absurd. As Christians, we ought to confront it head-on, knowing that God has a compassionate and redemptive response to the vagaries of every life.
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