Job's Ladder

Everybody has a breaking point.

A moment when life becomes unbearable—when loss, grief, and pain feel endless. For Pastor Peter Schembri, that moment came as he stood in the smoldering ruins of his church, the final blow in a series of devastating events: financial ruin, his wife's battle with drinking, his children's descent into drugs, and even his own cancer diagnosis—a punishment, he believed, for writing a book that questioned traditional biblical interpretations.

Shattered and questioni...