Fellow believers might abandon you or cover you in happy talk. But the Bible offers companionship with saints who know sorrow. On many mornings I wake up early, my stiff body creaking as I pull on my ...

From the beginning of humankind, pain has been part of the human experience, making it a central theme in the Bible. The ...

Jesus is worth everything, and there is a cost to following him. So the question for the reader becomes “How much is Jesus ...

In the Bible, Jesus never explains suffering, but he reaches out to those who are hurting, heals them and ultimately, on the cross, shares and redeems the suffering of all humanity, Pope Francis said.

Speculating about the purpose of suffering is dangerous. Providing someone with too quick a response about its meaning does not respect the trauma of violence, especially violence suffered by the ...

We normally narrate a life story from beginning to end, from birth to death, but for our purposes we should take up Debbie’s story on the day that everything turned. Young Debbie had been married just ...

Rabbi Held is the president and dean of the Hadar Institute, which he co-founded, and the author of “Judaism Is About Love,” from which this essay is adapted. What do we do with our pain? What, if ...

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, …and they made an appointment together to ...

When emotional pain strikes with devastating force, many people find themselves searching for something greater than human wisdom to provide comfort and healing. Throughout centuries, specific Bible ...

Coming from a family of eight children, my attempts at jockeying for position in the constellation of siblings basically took the form of whining and complaining. These "petitions" seemed to fall on ...