What do we mean when we say that “the Bible is the inspired Word of God"? What is the “authority of Scripture”? How can a book, especially one written thousands of years ago, be authoritative at all?

We Christians maintain that Jesus died to save us from our sins. But if He is God, did He truly have to die? Couldn’t there have been some other way to save us?

We’ve all heard it: “Children are such a blessing from the Lord.”

The man or woman who does not experience this divine blessing (aka children) is left wondering if they have done something wrong, if they are being punished, or worse, cursed.

Primary infertility.

The handwritten words scrawled on top of the laboratory requisition dropped into my gut like a rock. That’s… not possible, I thought. That’s not right at all.

We can’t be our best alone.

That’s right; this is coming from someone who tests 97% as an introvert on any Myers-Briggs or introvert personality tests. As much as I love my time alone (and I really, really do), I am not my best self when I curl up on myself…