AS I PONDER man’s place in God’s creation through the lens of the Book of Job, several key passages stand out to me. In Job 7:17-18, Job asks, “What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, that you examine them every morning and test them every…
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Curses, Questions, and Doubts
When Do Curses and Questions Cross the Line? JOB’S VERY FIRST SPEECH (Job 3) introduces a large and recurring theme of the book. What is the place and nature of doubt and questioning in our relationship with God? Indeed, Job was neither the first nor the last Bible figure to experience—and express—doubt, disappointment, and even…
A Pretty Nurse is Selling Poppies from a Tray
TO QUOTE THE BEATLES’ enigmatic lyric about the young lady selling flowers from a shelter in the middle of the roundabout, “though she feels as if she’s in a play, she is anyway” (Penny Lane, Lennon-McCartney, 1967). Sometimes we also forget we are in a play. But, to quote another, somewhat earlier British poet, each…