In the Gospel from Mark, Jesus speaks with his disciples about himself and his mission. He questions how people perceive him, and he understands that many misunderstand and reject him.

Jesus uttered this on his last breath: “It is finished!” (John 19:30) His redeeming death terminated our human death, one that offers hope beyond our human suffering.

In the daily prayer of Jesus, this indescribable presence took on an identity, a name synonymous with safety, security: Father. Herein lies the nadir of Christ’s spiritual suffering.

The biblical response to this friend’s questions can be rather baffling: God reacts to the suffering of the centuries by sending a sufferer. God does not pretend to wipe out suffering this side of ...

Now Jesus’ ministry to the sick and suffering is not simply to those who walked the streets in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. By establishing the church, his ministry to the sick can go “to the ...

Often it’s through suffering that the way of Jesus becomes incarnate, when life takes us where we wouldn’t choose to go. Then, when we breach the limits of our human resources, we encounter, as Romans ...

For Price, it's the cross that is the key to understanding suffering: Jesus' total isolation from his Father means that he can understand the isolation and aloneness that we feel in our own suffering.