John Piper, at Desiring God, has authored a small book called When the Darkness Will Not Lift.
In light of what we have been reading about Mother Teresa’s battle with ‘darkness’, Piper may have some insight we can draw from on this issue.
Here is a quote from John Piper:
Even the most faithful, focused Christians can [...]

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There has been a fair amount of coverage related to the Time Magazine article ‘Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith’.
This article talks about a new, innocuously titled book, Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (Doubleday), consisting primarily of correspondence between Teresa and her confessors and superiors over a period of 66 years, provides the spiritual counterpoint [...]

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THEPOINT, a blog of BreakPoint, has two post regarding Time Magazines article “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith”
Its no surprise that commentators at BreakPoint find no issues regarding Mother Teresa’s faith.
Jason Bruce, in his post, The Crisis of Mother Teresa, quotes Mother Teresa where she says “You don’t have to be a saint to do good? [...]

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Rick Phillips pens an insightful, must-read look at the recent revelations about Mother Theresa’s life of doubt and darkness before God.
(HT: JT)

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Posted: Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 3:54 am ET
What are we to make of Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith? That is a question I have been repeatedly asked in recent days. This week’s TIME cover story by David van Biema caught the attention of millions around the world, and it raises some of the most [...]

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Mother Teresa was a devout Roman Catholic and given the apostacy of the Roman Catholic Church and Mother Teresa’s own words, it is unlikely she ever had a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. I know what you are going to say, only God knows that. And to that statement I would agree, it is true [...]

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Tim Challies writes:
Mother Teresa (known also as Mother Teresa of Calcutta) was born in what is now called Yugoslavia/Bosnia in 1910. Born to Albanian parents she was at that time known as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. The labor for which she became renowned began on January 6, 1929 when she arrived in Calcutta, India to work [...]

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