Humanity’s Common Lot Is Suffering: ‘We’re All Fluent In The Language Of Pain’

(OPINION) Suffering indeed is our common language. Regardless of your age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics or marital status, every person reading this column has suffered. If somehow you haven’t yet, you will. This may be the greatest impediment to believing in a loving, all-powerful God.

Opinion, ReligionPaul PratherMarch 3, 2025Paul Prather, Pain, Suffering, Pastors, Preachers, Ministers, religion, opinion Comment

Things To Remember When You Or Someone You Love Is Suffering

(OPINION) I’m not sure why I’m bringing Job up again. Maybe it’s the war in the Middle East with its accompanying photos of mangled bodies and shell-shocked babies. Maybe it’s the local stories I’ve heard of fatal car wrecks and life-threatening cancers. Maybe it’s just the daily toll of age and oncoming frailty.

OpinionPaul PratherNovember 7, 2023Paul Prather, Christianity, Job, SufferingComment

A Tough, Newsy ‘Theodicy’ Question: ‘If God Is Good, Why Do Animals Suffer?'

(OPINION) Do disease and devastation for innocent people argue against God’s existence? C.S. Lewis and later writers see the opposite. Without the design and purpose of a moral God and the divine aspect of each person he creates, what could explain our inherent conviction that the innocent should not suffer, that certain things are unjust and that our world is awry?

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