The church does a lot of things well, but helping people find their way through unrelenting suffering is not typically one of them. To my mind, the reason for this bewildering lack of help for those who suffer stems from modern Western Christianity's inaccurate definitions for concepts like suffering, healing, hard circumstances and miracles. Too often we see suffering  as something to be silently endured, never showing other believers just how far our pain grinds down our d

My family says I'm a know it all. Unflattering yes, but an accurate statement. My natural tendency to point out other's flawed information blossomed when I became a grammar nerd after taking copy editing as a sophomore in college. I simply relish knowing obscure rules most people don't know or care about. One such rule is the difference between the words continuous and continual. If something occurs continuously,  if happens constantly without ceasing. If something occurs co