“Pain” Articles

Courtney Ellis’s careful observations of nature teach her, and us, to find peace during the hardest transitions.

This series captures the reality that the most difficult parts of life are the most transformative.

How many parents, driven to despair, have offered their lives to God or the devil if only their child could survive?

The mysterious God of the universe uses mysteries, and His words in the Bible, to encounter and be encountered.

At the very least, even if you learn that much of what you loved was an illusion or enchantment, your pain is the grief of something real.

Agatha asked Wanda, “Do you think maybe this is what you deserve?” That’s the question that poisons all our hearts.

Perhaps it was inevitable that, back when I was looking forward to a summer of attending and reviewing performances of all nine symphonies, it was all about to crash and burn.

Wendy Alsup joins this conversation to help us reconcile our current historical moment—which is full of loss and fear—with our tendency to sidestep pain and suffering.

It’s perpetually difficult for those who love their creativity to understand and to reconcile it with their dark sides.

Part of Hannah Gadsby’s subversive power consists in the fact she still manages to be hilarious even as she refuses to let us rest in the abridgments necessary to her former punchlines.

It hurts everywhere. In Beirut, in Paris, in Syria and in Missouri, USA, in all the many, many places I forgot to name.