The Specter of Prayer with Mark Karris

Homebrewed Christianity · Mar 21, 2018 · 55m

Mark Karris, ordained minister and therapist, is on to talk about his new book, Divine Echoes: Reconciling Prayer with the Uncontrolling Love of God. In this book about prayer, inspired by the open and relational work of Tom Oord, Mark looks at the role of trauma in his life and how that led to his work as a minister, therapist, and theologian; the specter of the failure of prayer; his experience of God as love amidst the trauma; the theological underpinnings for petitionary prayer.

what is the role of prayer?

do petitionary prayers make a difference?

is God really in control?

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