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Posts Tagged ‘suffering’
Sophia & Her Daughters, Faith, Hope & Charity
Sophia and her daughters lived in Italy in the second century, her teenaged daughters were tortured and beheaded for confessing the faith. Sophia mourned at their grave for three days before dying of grief. I hate to say it but I think this one is more shrouded by myth and tradition than most. The point [...]
Torture, Atonement – Suffering For the Good of Others?
Last week I posted on the Pew Forum’s recent survey suggesting that a shockingly high proportion of Christians hold that torture is acceptable. In my post – I stated that this figure suggests that our preachers, teachers, and community organisers are not doing enough to convey the central Christian tenet – that suffering, to cause [...]