(RNS) For the couple of months since I went public about my brain cancer, I’ve had many people of many faiths send me messages that they were praying for me. Some said they were hoping to nudge the ...

The Book of Job is the closest thing in Hebrew to a Greek tragedy. A perfectly innocent man—one “who feared God and turned away from evil”—is visited by a series of calamities. He loses his ...

It is the classic story of bad things happening to someone trying to do good. Like the Old Testament tale that befell the tragic biblical figure of Job; students and staff at the federally funded ...

The Book of Job, and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. We’ll ask what the hard old Bible story has to say now. An image from William Blake's engravings illustrating the biblical Book of Job. Job, a ...

The book reminds us that life is unjust, but so is the gospel of God’s grace. Life is unfair, and that is a problem. All humans seem to have an “unfairness radar” that goes off whenever we encounter ...

So God says to Satan, “You there, what have you been up to?” And Satan says, “Oh, you know, just hanging around, minding my own business.” And God says, “Well, take a look at my man Job over there. He ...