After Tragedy, How to Move Forward in Life

After Tragedy, How to Move Forward in Life

The pandemic acts as an accelerator for everything. If you had any anxiety before the pandemic, now you have more. If you were struggling to pay the bills before the pandemic, you are struggling even more now. It is an accelerant, and we all have been affected. Mental...

Does Everything Really Happen for a Reason?

Among some Christians you will often hear the aphorism: “Everything happens for a reason.” Really? How in the wake of hurricanes, internally displaced persons, floods, earthquakes and shattered infrastructures does one maintain this? It seems to infer...

Disasters Remind Us of Our Common Humanity

While watching a news report Tuesday morning of the aftermath of Monday’s catastrophic tornado in Moore, Okla., my wife and I received a call that a relative completed a long battle with disease during the night. The images of a community and nation responding...

7 Ways Your Church Can Respond to Tragedy

A gunman slaughters innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Bombs rip through the crowd at the Boston Marathon. A chemical plant explosion destroys homes and lives in West, Texas. Every day seems to bring news of a devastating disruption in some...