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June 2025

June 06, 2025

Why Suffering Does Not Negate the Goodness of Life

A FREE POST: The view that the fact of suffering negates the goodness of life...

May 2024

May 17, 2024

DISCUSSION: Muggeridge on Suffering

"Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost...

January 2024

January 16, 2024

Fear of Suffering

Behind many of our most contentious issues today is an extreme, pathological fear of suffering....

March 2021

March 10, 2021

Evil Suffering vs. Blessed Suffering

There is a suffering that is evil, which Christians must battle with all their might. ...

December 2019

December 12, 2019

Having Pets Is No Longer Politically Correct

Animal lovers who have pets, we are now told, are violating animal rights. And having...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

Erasing Bad Memories

We are the sum of our experiences throughout our lives, and our memories continue to...

November 20, 2019

The Belief that Being Alive Is Always Bad

Anti-Natalism began as a movement to stop having children for environmentalist reasons. But now some...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

Religion Is For Those in Need

The 10 happiest countries one earth are among the least religious; conversely, the 10 least...

November 2017

November 10, 2017

God Has Already Repaid You

Thanks to Pastor Ned Moerbe, who cited this quotation from Paul Gerhardt by way...

January 2017

January 06, 2017

Spiritual anguish

Contrary to the "prosperity gospel" and other theologies of glory, negative experiences can also have...

August 2016

August 08, 2016

St. Sebastian, patron saint of athletes and of Rio

You don't have to believe in the Roman Catholic cult of the saints to find...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Christ drains the cup

Read this remarkable meditation from Chad Bird on those times of suffering when God seems...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Stephen Colbert, God, and suffering

Stephen Colbert, who took over for David Letterman on The Late Show last week, is...

January 2015

January 22, 2015

Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Today is the March for Life, a day to protest the Roe v. Wade decision,...

October 2014

October 23, 2014

Two solutions for the terminally ill

Here are two heart-breaking stories of women with terminal brain cancer. The first is moving...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

“God suffered, God died”

Some of the deepest waters of Lutheran theology and where it makes some of its...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Breakthrough in implanting false memories

Scientists have successfully implanted false memories into mice. The researches are excited at prospect of...

September 2011

September 02, 2011

Party our way into extinction!

People who oppose abortion like to call themselves "pro-life." Proponents of abortion object to that term,...