What effect the experience that led to the song Why Me, Lord? had is unknown, but Kris never wanted to identify himself as an evangelical musician.
We need food, shelter, friendship, purpose and more, but maybe all these needs fold into just two: bios and zoë, physical life and spiritual life.
“Young people have lost hope and the meaning of life […] The authority of the Bible must be restored”, says a Finnish Christian doctor and writer.
A report of the Social and Cultural Planning Office shows that only 33% say they believe in God. But “believers experience more meaningfulness than non-believers”.
A palliative care doctor analyses the recently approved Spanish euthanasia law and its consequences in the final stages of life. “Closing our life properly is the way to die well”, she says.
Let us not forget the future hope and comfort that enabling people to die well will bring.
However safe and self-sufficient we felt, a virus has reminded us of the fragility of life and has brought us face to face with death.
May this crisis make you ponder life and death, and what is truly valuable.
Our point of reference has to remain the Lord and not coronavirus. It’s necessary to affirm God’s control over the whole situation and the need to repent before Him.
We should be able to transform the time of waiting into a time of hope and patience. Then we will discover that God can change our adversities into opportunities.
A survey shows that women have more existential questions than men, while Protestants and Catholics are the ones who think more about the meaning of life.
The Constitution “includes a right to a self-determined death”, the court says. Protestant and Catholic leaders issued a joint statement lamenting the decision.
Spanish psychiatrist and author, Pablo Martínez, analyses how individualism, existential emptiness and intolerance to suffering, have become some of the main charasteristics of our society.
We need to stop offering a cheap Christianity to a generation that is tired of consumerism.
Every 40 seconds, one person commits suicide worldwide, the WHO reports. Christian psychiatrist Pablo Martínez analyses this difficult issue.
Have you stopped to think that maybe you are searching in the wrong direction, even if you are following a religion?
God has given a certain dignity to work, making it something that we cannot live without. However, if we look to our work to find meaning in life, we will end up with an empty heart.
God is our Father, so we can't allow ourselves to be struck down by meaningless things.
A private company says it will freeze and preserve human bodies for at least 100 years. In the United States, 350 people have already given their body to cryopreservation.
The future has a curious power to shape us.
Every 40 seconds, one person commits suicide. “Suicide is preventable if efforts are comprehensive and integrated”, the World Health Organisation says.
Having thrown off a religious sensibility, our death-haunted culture needs to squeeze every last drop of experience out of our limited existences, before it all slips away.
The painting portrays Gauguin’s struggle with the meaning of existence.
God is like a dynamic of love who enters the world so as to redeem and include sinners in its eternal, ecstatic embrace.
We feel pressured to live and work as a salvation project where I’m the hero of my own story.
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