Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness

What if the things we most fear about our bodies-our vulnerability to illness and pain-are exactly the places where God meets us most fully? As Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain, she wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. Can we still be whole when our bodies suffer? The Christian story speaks to our experiences of pain and illness. In Jesus' own embodiment, we see an embrace of the body and of all the discomfort and sufferin...