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Episode 181: Kate Bowler - The Prosperity Gospel & a Theology of Suffering

The Bible For Normal People

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Did You Suffer With God's Injustice?

I was very angry at what it's like to live under the weight of so many cultural solutions. And that has been the thing that i devote now so much of my intellectual and spiritual energy to, which is sort of pulling apart this kind of self help and cultural myths we have. Because i just think it is like, it endlessly compounds the suffering of of people already going through too much. So there was a sense always that even though i was a horrified by what was happening, that i did not experience god's absence in any way.

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