Ouch! We all have bad days from time to time, but most of us won’t even come close to what Job was experiencing when he uttered those painful words. In case you’re not familiar with his story, Job was ...

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Harold S. Kushner is a rare bird: a popular religious writer set apart by his humility and lack of proselytizing. This rabbi’s long list of best-selling books, including his 1981 hit “When Bad Things ...

The Book of Job is commonly — and mistakenly — seen as a story of the “patience of Job.” And sometimes people have trouble locating its place in the Bible. Asked by reporters last January to name his ...

"Do you really want to read the entire book of Job?" my pastor asked me, horrified. I'd asked him to help me read this ancient Biblical book, to understand why it spoke to people who suffer greatly. I ...

`The Book of Job' attempts an answer to the problem of evil. Evil has been designated as the atheist fact. God created all that is, and by common experience, there is evil. `the book of job' attempts ...

This is a slightly adapted version of a sermon presented earlier this month at the Festival of Preaching. “Then Job answered the Lord: ‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours ...