The Suffering Community

I’ve always wondered what makes community biblical—as opposed to community that is merely social. Often churches provide social community, ...

Walter Payton’s Compassion

In August 1984, after ten seasons with the Chicago Bears as place kicker, Bob Thomas was notified by the Bears' management that he was being cut. ...

A Different Kind of Sensitivity

Scott Bolinder writes in Marriage Partnership:

When my mother, the obvious sensitive one, would disintegrate into tears for whatever reason, my father ...

The Sign of Pain

I had to have blood drawn at the doctor's office, and my five-year-old daughter, Mary, came along. When the nurse held up the needle, Mary never blinked. ...

The Benefits of a Broken Heart

If your own heart hasn't been broken, you tend to be insensitive, except to those people you like.

Why We Suffer

The body poorly protects what it does not feel. In the spiritual Body, also, loss of feeling inevitably leads to atrophy and inner deterioration. So much ...

The Christmas Story Never Told

"Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, 'Arise and take the young child and his mother and flee into Egypt' ...

Looking into Our Eyes

Joe Torre had been a catcher and a broadcast announcer for the St. Louis Cardinals. Shortly after he was named manager, according to the Pittsburgh Press, ...

He Counts the Hair on Your Head

One night my 11-year-old daughter Eva noticed I was distracted as I tucked her in to bed. I told her about a friend's teenage daughter whose hair ...

The Meaning of Spiritual Health

Spiritual health is being able to walk in God's presence and enjoy him for ourselves, yet still feel the world's hurts.