By Richard Doster, ByFaith. In her new book, Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores, Diane Langberg says the church’s greatest mission field in the 21st century is trauma. Trauma is extraordinary, she says, “not because it rarely happens, but because it swallows up and destroys normal human ways of living.”…
Authored by my friend and colleague Faith J. H. McDonnell and first published at Patheos, this is both painful and important to read. It is then important to respond not only as we pray and sing, but as we speak up, stand up and intervene that the fellowship of the suffering might be our shared burden as…
By Marie Bowen Theo Boer changed his mind about euthanasia and has gone public with his admission. “We were wrong—terribly wrong,” he wrote in an article for Daily Mail that was recently posted on Careful!, a Mercatornet blog about end of life issues. Boer, along with most of his colleagues, believed that safeguards in the…
By Joseph Scheumann All Christians suffer. Either you have, you are, or you will — “through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22). This reality is a stark reminder that we have not reached the new heavens and new earth. The new Jerusalem of no tears and no pain, of no…
By Belinda Croft American Pastor Saeed Abedini has been held in Iran’s Evin Prison since September 2012 and in January 2013 was sentenced to eight years in prison – accused of evangelising and threatening national security. It is reported that he has been beaten and refused medical attention. Saeed Abedini met his wife in 2002,…