Suffering

Sacrifice and Spirit contains the transcripts of two talks on major New Testament themes given by Michael Ramsey. The first is on the Christian concept of sacrifice - a notion rooted in rather gruesome Old Testament custom but now often overlaid...

Throughout history, the question has been asked, ‘Why does God allow suffering?’ No-one has found a satisfactory answer, but what complicates the question is the widespread notion that God has two sides – one loving and forgiving,...

The Cross is the symbol of victorious love because of Christ’s acceptance of it as the way to life transfigured through suffering.

Accepting the problems of the spiritual life in the modern world as a challenge Mother Mary Clare, a leading spiritual director of the Anglican Church, discusses the nature and practice of prayer for the serious Christian, lay and clerical.