Agnes R. Howard

Early Americans bore energetic witness to bodily suffering. What can their example teach believers today? Sarah Pierpont often found herself bedridden by sickness. Living in colonial New Haven in the 1750s, she considered it a duty to make record of her pain and its spiritual lessons by writing. She tried to interpret her sickness through her faith and felt worse when poor … [Read more...] about Trusting God with Your Illness Is No Prescription for Passivity