
Episode 213: Amanda Held Opelt - The Honesty of Grief
The Bible For Normal People
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Theology and Theology
Rituals are not these kind of rote empty habits. They are actually really powerful, emotionally laden experiences that are done in community. We're two repetitive wor two wrote and we are supposed to have this one on one relationship with god. And i guess i just, again, i think that that continues to lead us to believe that we have to somehow work through our grief with god alone. Nd so that makes it really hard when god suddenly feels absent. So that's kind of been my experience, but i do know if you ran into other kind of theologies or or ways of thinking about that sort of down played this idea.
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