The Long Dark Night of the Soul

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"I can really understand why you had your long dark night of the soul," CNN's John Sutter says. "If not for some internal contradiction, relatively small points, if that had never revealed themselves to me ... then I would have just accepted." The author grew up in a family of lawyers; his grandfather was an award-winning civil rights attorney. He writes: "These are just their personal prejudices and they're living them out in the world"

Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K. Rowling to respond to pushback from some of her critics. The two also discuss the difficulty of discernment—why it can be so hard to know what’s right.

Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.

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