John Mark Hicks

Sometimes life gets to be “too much.”  Given some personal and painful meditations yesterday, some talks with several different people about their hurtful situations…it is too much. Intellectually, I know my losses are fewer than some and greater than others. I know it is all relative.  But my emotional gut–as I get in tune with it more […]

In light of the recent tragedy in Myanmar (aka Burma) which has taken the lives of over 32,000 people as well as the tragic earthquakes in China that have claimed over 16,000 lives, I offer the following piece which I wrote–at the request of the Editor–for the Feburary 2005 issue of the Christian Chronicle after […]

Madeleine L’Engle:           “Dear God.           I hate you.           Love, Madeleine.” I have been contemplating this brief prayer for several days after I read it in Gary Thomas’ Sacred Marriage (p. 157; an excellent read, btw!). Initially, I was horrified by how much I identified with the prayer and I was quite troubled by the […]

I have uploaded to my General Materials page two items related to the biblical book entitled “Job.” I gave a series of lectures at Lipscomb University entitled Faithful Lament: Job’s Response to Suffering and the handouts for those lectures are now available. I have also provided the powerpoint presentation that accompanied the lectures. The first […]