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A Problem That Won’t Go Away

Many suffering people want to love God, but cannot see past their tears. They feel hurt and betrayed. Sadly, the church often responds with more confusion than comfort.

At an age when I had no right to tackle the daunting problem of pain, I wrote Where Is God When It Hurts? for those people. Partly because I have heard from so many of them, I have now revised and expanded this book. In a sense, this new edition represents a dialogue with my readers, the next step in my own pilgrimage.

I have especially expanded the section “How Can We Cope with Pain?” because I believe God has given the church a mandate of representing his love to a suffering world. We usually think of the problem of pain as a question we ask of God, but it is also a question he asks of us. How do we respond to hurting people?

—Philip Yancey