This special anniversary edition about the question of suffering includes a study guide.

The book and study materials focus on the role of pain in God's plan for life and how we can respond to it.

'If there is a loving God, then why . . . ?' No matter how the question is completed, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order suffering? Or did he simply wind up the world's mainspring and now is watching from a distance?

In this Award-winning book, Philip Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual - and helps us understand why we suffer.