When life is painful, you don’t need a God who is disconnected from the harsh realities of daily life. You need a suffering savior.

When life is painful, you don’t need a God who is disconnected from the harsh realities of daily life. You need a suffering savior.
I’m not a theologian, my expertise comes only from personal suffering (as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and a suicide attempt). But it seems to me that theology—at least the Western version of evangelical Christianity I’ve been steeped in—is as much about our views of self as it is our study of God. To […]