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Take
a peek and click around on www.contemplativemom.com,
which serves as a ministry to moms and a complement to Ann
Kroeker's The
Contemplative Mom. There are poems and excerpts from
the book, and ideas for "Reminders of God." There are quotes
and prayers and all kinds of things that Ann hopes will be
helpful to visitors. For example, women in ministry may like
to use the The
Contemplative Mom as a moms' study. There's an online
study guide available for free for that purpose, generated
by a church in Portland that had great success using it.
Why
would a loving God allow pain and suffering?
It's
a question everyone asks-from skeptics to confirmed believers.
In The
Wind That Destroys and Heals, theologian and educator
Stephen Broyles wrestles with it personally and powerfully.
After
his wife's death, Broyles found new meaning in the pleas of
the psalmists, in the plight of Job, and in the prayers of
Jesus to the God who had seemingly forsaken him. In this book
he supplies the coordinates readers need to track God through
the most broken stretches of life. God is there in all of
it, and it's possible to locate him even when the thickening
darkness dims our sight.
Like
the psalmists, Broyles asked the searing question of faith,
and he received a surprising answer.
Stephen
E. Broyles taught philosophy and theology at a quiet private
college in Florence, Alabama, for seventeen years. When his
wife, Elizabeth, died, his world changed forever. He stepped
out of teaching to be a single parent to their two children,
then aged six and ten. He has since earned his living, in part,
through writing and editing. He holds the Master of Arts and
Master of Theology degrees from Harding University Graduate
School in Memphis, Tennessee, and a Bachelor of Music degree
from the University of Alabama. Broyles has now remarried. A
long-time resident of Alabama, he now lives with his wife, Sharon,
in Massachusetts.
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