by David George | Sep 14, 2021 | Opinion
Cancer is bad, and there are many other bad things in the world. So, if God is good and God is powerful, why does God allow bad things to happen? There is no final, easy answer to that question, but there are answers. The basic answer is that God made a world with...
by David George | Sep 13, 2021 | Opinion
“It’s cancer,” he said, “and it’s a bad one.” On May 29, 2014, I was standing by the canned green beans in the HEB grocery store in Waco, Texas, when my phone rang. Dr. Robert Faber of Urology Associates in Nashville, Tennessee, was calling with the results of the...
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Mar 30, 2020 | Opinion
On this the Bible is unmistakably clear: One should not test God. COVID-19 provides fodder for some of the heaviest theological and ethical questions: Why does God allow suffering? Are some lives more valuable than others? To us? To God? What values govern our...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Apr 30, 2015 | Opinion
On my first visit to Nepal in 1989, I was appalled at the grinding poverty in which the vast majority of its citizens lived. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the rich world came to trek, climb the Himalayas or seek some variation of...
by Aaron Brooks | Nov 25, 2013 | Opinion
Soon after Typhoon Haiyan wreaked its devastating effects on the Philippines, people began drawing attention to a Jesus statue that withstood the storm. The typhoon practically leveled the coastal town of Tanauan in which the statue of Jesus continues to stand tall –...
