Encountering trauma in the Bible

This stellar biography shows a truly courageous and holy man but also deeply unjust and humiliating actions by some church officials.

‘I try so hard to hold onto pleasant images of Tim, but all I can see is him hanging there in the garage.” So said my sister a few months after our older brother died of suicide. That was one comforting linguistic suggestion, that he “died of suicide,” not that he “comm

“Just live today. Don’t bother thinking about tomorrow, or yesterday. Focus on just one day.”

Jesus was marked by his wounds in his resurrected life. Will it be the same for us?

The boy I knew so long ago in grammar and high school had died a martyr, an American hero.