Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic, Part Three

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Do I believe God is still good even in the midst of profound suffering I don’t understand?”

Our world continues to change in monumental ways. In this episode, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender engage the implications and anxieties brought about by Covid-19, but also turn our attention to the goodness, power, and protection of God.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cent.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:26.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Rachel, I'm grateful that we're not going to be talking about COVID-19 for the rest of our lives.
0:35.4	But we're going to talk about it a bit more because I can tell you as
0:40.6	a therapist, I've spent the last, I'll just say the last day or so talking with folks
0:47.1	and all people want to engage are the implications, the realities of anxiety, of dreams that are coming.
0:59.3	Let's just say, I'm a mess. I think most people are a mess. And yet, there's something about
1:06.6	reflecting on the providence, the goodness, the power, the protection of God that I think
1:13.8	is important for us to engage. But I also want to give a bit of a, I don't know, is it fair
1:19.3	to use the phrase trigger warning that we're going to be asking people to engage certain
1:25.4	theological illusions with regard to God's protection.
1:30.2	So if that does not feel like the best time of the world for you to engage that,
1:37.2	I almost say listen till you can't.
1:43.2	Does that seem fair?
1:45.5	Yeah, I mean, I think we're just going to be stepping into some of the tensions that have
1:49.8	been questions from the beginning of time. How do we rest in these promises of God and stand
1:55.5	firm on them while also holding the reality that if we say, you know, if we have a triumphal or an escapist view of some of these things,
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