Category Truth

Trials and Tribulations

If God is good, why does He allow us to suffer trials and tribulations? This question ceased to be just an interesting intellectual puzzle for me after the tragic death of my son a few years ago.  In the aftermath…

Book Review: Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi

Short Stories by Jesus, The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi, by Amy-Jill Levine, HarperCollins, New York, 2014, 313 pages. “Religion has been defined to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.  We do well to think of the…

Breaking the Fangs of the Wicked

I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger. I broke the fangs of the wicked and snatched the victims from their teeth. Job 29:16-17 Four decades ago, some men on Guam suffered terrible…