suffering
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Whether on an individual level or a larger scale, suffering raises questions about God and life. The items below present a Christian understanding.
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A Different Dream for My Child (triple helix - summer 2010)
Meditations for parents of critically or chronically ill children Jolene Philo - Discovery House USA 2009 - £10.99 Pb 267pp - ISBN 978 1 57293 307 1 - - This book was written from the author's experience of having a critically ill newborn and the years of isolation, hospital admissions and...
A thorn in the flesh: finding strength and hope amid suffering. (triple helix - winter 2008)
InterVarsity Press 2007 £7.99; Pb 192pp ISBN 978 1 84474 188 5 - Some people claim to have lost faith in God because he did not answer their fervent prayers for healing. Pablo Martinez, Christian psychiatrist and Bible teacher, reveals how prolonged suffering can instead enhance a relationship with...
Why Does God Allow Suffering? (Book Review) (nucleus - summer 2008)
Why Does God Allow Suffering? - Brad Burke - Victor 2006 - £6 Pb 160pp - ISBN 0781442834 - Why does God allow suffering? It is a theme that we encounter daily in healthcare and one of the hardest questions we face when sharing our faith. This book is part of a series by an American physician,...
A gift from Chernobyl? (triple helix - spring/summer 2007)
Eugene Novitsky describes what Ukrainian parents learned from their sick child - We listen to the oncologist's verdict. 'Blood cancer - leukaemia.' Immediately we grasp the implications. Eight to nine months' treatment…mother to stay in hospital, too…chemotherapy …radiation…75% survival. Why, Lord,...
CMF File 32 (2006) - Human Suffering: Biblical Perspectives (CMF files)
No sane person enjoys suffering. It limits our capabilities and is often accompanied by physical pain or emotional distress. The Bible gives a rich insight into the variety of causes of, and responses to, suffering, but also declares that only God knows the answers to many of our questions about...
Tracing the rainbow - Walking through loss and Bereavement (Book Review) (triple helix - spring 2005)
Tracing the rainbow - Walking through loss and Bereavement - Pablo Martinez and Ali Hull - Spring Harvest, Milton Keynes 2004 - £7.99 Pb 171pp - ISBN 1 85078 487 6 - A Christian psychiatrist and journalist here explore the nature of grief after death or divorce, offering telling personal histories...
When Life Hurts (nucleus - spring 2004)
Tim Hinks examines the perennial problem of suffering - In a single day Laura's world fell apart. Until last week, life couldn't have been better. She was in the prime of her life, very happily married with two children aged six and two. The only warning she had was a slight visual disturbance. She...
Comfort from Job (triple helix - winter 2002)
Patricia Goode draws out insights for counsellors of victims of severe trauma from the life of Job. - Post-traumatic stress disorder can follow rape, assault or major life-threatening accident or illness. It also occurs after seeing shattering incidents happen to others, especially when the person...
Creative Suffering (triple helix - spring 2001)
'Since coming here,' said the prisoner, 'I've come much closer to God.' Opal's quiet words were convincing. In turn, she was touched to learn that opal gemstones owe their beauty to immense pressure, bearing down on fragments of silica in water. This pressure produces their scintillating colours...
'I call you gods'[1] (triple helix - autumn 1999)
Fr John Dale reflects on the tensions we can feel in the face of suffering - Is there an affinity between our drive for knowledge and expertise and the feeling of let-down, even of guilt, when, despite one's best compassionate efforts, someone we have cared for dies? Is there something within the...