Job is one of my favorite books in the Bible and is interesting poetically, philosophically and theologically. I’m not a biblical scholar or theologian and have not read all the commentaries and expositions on the meaning of Job, but I know that the questions it wrestles with are the basic questions tripping up millions as a roadblock to faith in God …
A tiger killed a man and terrorized a village nearly 100 years ago. My grandfather, a missionary to India, shot the tiger. Its massive head and hide were preserved and then passed down through our family as a carpet until it landed in the most improbable of places: in a Brahmin priest’s prayer room on the shores of Lake Michigan …
In his late 20s, says Hugh Hollowell, a driven and restless stockbroker, he began reading about the Anabaptists and their Jesus-centered approach to gospel living …