Description: Cancer, hurricanes, hunger, suicide: suffering is the most profound challenge to faith that many people will face.
Valerie G. Rempel leads readers into a gentle meditation on the many questions surrounding why we suffer. How can God be all-loving and all-powerful? Why don't prayers seem to work? Is pain always redemptive? And what do the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveal about suffering? We may not find answers to all our questions, but we can lean into the God big enough to absorb all of them.Brief description: Valerie G. Rempel serves as dean of Fresno Pacific Biblical Seminary and vice president of Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. She has degrees from Tabor College, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, and Vanderbilt University, and she has served on a variety of Mennonite Brethren and inter-Mennonite boards. Rempel is a member of Willow Avenue Mennonite Church.
Review Quotes: "Valerie Rempel masterfully makes this complex topic accessible for anyone seeking to navigate the difficult terrain of suffering with freedom and grace."--Sara Wenger Shenk, retired president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and author of Meditations for New Parents