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Episode 137

Hope in the Darkness with Curt Thompson


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As we continue our journey through the season of Lent, we’re offering a series to help each of us prepare the way of the Lord. As we go deeper in our spiritual practices during these days, our guide today is the author and psychiatrist Dr. Curt Thompson. 

In this conversation, Curt talks about the virtue, and discipline, of pursuing hope, even amid the darkness of a broken world:

“While I am working to move toward Jesus, while I’m moving to be further in the dance of the Trinity, I continue to suffer because evil is not about to go quietly into the night … [we must] posture ourselves with our suffering in the same way that the Holy Trinity does when it comes to the suffering that Jesus experienced, such that we can join him in that.”

This episode is drawn from an online conversation recorded in 2023. View the transcript and other resources there.

Related Trinity Forum Readings:
Confessions; St Augustine
God’s Grandeur; Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bulletins from Immortality; Emily Dickinson
On Friendship; Cicero
On Happiness; Aquinas
Man’s Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl

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