Compassion: The Call to Suffer with Others
In a world often burdened with its own weight and hardships, the importance of compassion cannot be overstated. Pain reminds us of […]
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Triune Compassion
From one angle, the storyline of Scripture is a story of grief. We are born into grief, grief is not something we
Seeing people in light of what they suffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer shares a nugget of wisdom in his Papers and Letters from Prison. The proper way to view other human beings is through
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God in the Fray
I was 19 years old when I first stepped foot into a Juvenile Detention Center. It was my freshman year of college. It
Absorbing the Pain of Others
Compassion at heart is to suffer with someone, to enter their pain, shoulder their suffering and walk with them in their valley. Stanley
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Compassion as Rebellion
Pain is a constant in human existence. This regularity necessitates response, which in time becomes habitual. We develop a particular posture toward pain and a way of
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