(RNS) For the couple of months since I went public about my brain cancer, I’ve had many people of many faiths send me messages that they were praying for me. Some said they were hoping to nudge the ...

Ouch! We all have bad days from time to time, but most of us won’t even come close to what Job was experiencing when he uttered those painful words. In case you’re not familiar with his story, Job was ...

"Do you really want to read the entire book of Job?" my pastor asked me, horrified. I'd asked him to help me read this ancient Biblical book, to understand why it spoke to people who suffer greatly. I ...

In 1863 the Confederate Army was “flushed with victory.” Throughout the summer of that year, the Union had been taking brutal losses. The cost in human lives was high. “Sometimes it looked,” Elizabeth ...

The Book of Job, and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. We’ll ask what the hard old Bible story has to say now. An image from William Blake's engravings illustrating the biblical Book of Job. Job, a ...

So God says to Satan, “You there, what have you been up to?” And Satan says, “Oh, you know, just hanging around, minding my own business.” And God says, “Well, take a look at my man Job over there. He ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This current article "A Phonological Existential Analysis to the Book of Job" explores the various ways that Job's friends attempted to help ...

An official journal of the College English Association, The CEA Critic publishes scholarly works that, through "close reading" methodology, examine the texts of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and ...