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S2E6 Lotus in the Fire: Suffering (Part I)
It’s September which, as every Chinese auntie knows, means ghost month is over but the suffering of the long year has just begun.
In this episode, Matt and Dan slip into the bitter oolong of theological reflection and sip slowly on the paradox of suffering: the kind that doesn’t go away when you pray harder, and the kind that doesn’t get prettier when you quote Romans 8 at it.
Framing the conversation between the minimisers, who deny the pangs in stoic detachment, and the maximisers, who build Chinese altars to their affliction, we look at suffering as an inevitable and indispensable…
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