Resources by Topic: Suffering and Evil

Daniel Traugott was a 13-year-old boy who died in a car accident, leaving behind his mother, father and four siblings. His mother, Sandy, sent us the following poems she wrote that reflect two different perspectives on his death. (Reprinted with permission.)

What, after all, is more universal to human experience than suffering? And what is more important than the perspective we bring to it?

Wicca prides itself in being a diverse movement.

In this video clip, Ann Stump shares her story of losing her young son. Randy Alcorn writes about this story in his book If God Is Good. 

Satan is so delusional that, in his blinding hatred opposing God, he willingly fulfills God’s decree as it is plainly revealed and known by him.

While serving with Operation Mobilization in India in 1967, tuberculosis forced me into a sanitarium for several months. I did not yet speak the language, but I tried to give Christian literature written in their language to the patients, doctors and nurses. Everyone refused; some politely, some rudely.

If your life was perfect, then what would you need Me for?

I desire, I want to be a jewel that does not cringe if God chooses to give my soul a hard scrubbing every now and then.

For all the negative things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive answer for them.

CBN, Robertson’s network, has issued a statement regarding his comments. They claim, “Dr. Robertson never stated that the earthquake was God’s wrath. If you watch the entire video segment, Dr. Robertson’s compassion for the people of Haiti is clear.”

In 1952, young Florence Chadwick stepped into the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island, determined to swim to the shore of mainland California.

It's been well publicized that Pat Robertson claimed the earthquake is God's judgment on Haiti for past sin, including making a pact with the devil.

I came to know my friend Jim Harrell after Jim read my book Heaven. (That's me on the left, then Jim, then his good friend Vince, when I visited the Harrell home in Wheaton, Illinois, less than three months ago.)

This is a question and answer concerning prayer and angelic warfare portrayed in Randy Alcorn's books Deadline, Dominion and Edge of Eternity.