Within the Christian tradition, there is a common theological framework where God is both a God of love and a God of judgment. Within this framework, God is seen is always loving toward every person, but when a person does something sinful or evil, the judgement side of God comes forward and judges that person causing the person or nation to suffer the consequences of their sins.  In this blog, I want to share another way of understanding what is often called judgmental nature of God, namely the experience of God's Absence.  I believe we see this Presence/Absence framework of God within Jesus’s ministry, and this framework is very present in the field of psychospiritual therapy that I practice and teach.    (Click here to continue)