Maxwell Institute Podcast #171: How Does God Grieve? Featuring Mary Eyring

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Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr. Mary Eyring, associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. Dr. Eyring studies early American literature, and her research has immersed her in the physical and spiritual suffering of ordinary women and men who, like the man Elder Eyring spoke of, reached their breaking point but had to go on. In our conversation, we turn to the work of theologian Sarah Bachelard, author of a short book titled Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis. We talked about how to move forward when a crisis, whether sudden or slow-motion, causes spiritual collapse, and how the pattern of the atonement can give us something to hold on to. Mary taught me a better question for a time of crisis. As natural as it is to ask “How could this happen?”, a better question might be: “How is God grieving in this situation?” Grieving as God grieves, not as our anxious and frightened human minds want to, can lead us through the valley of the shadow of death into a larger and truer life.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast, where we seek out faith illuminating scholarship.
0:15.2	I'm Rosalind Welch, Associate Director at the Institute.
0:19.1	This season, we're exploring the questions we should be asking.
0:23.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:24.6	We've all heard the question, and we've probably asked it ourselves.
0:29.6	Why did this terrible thing have to happen in my life?
0:32.6	It's a universal cry from the heart.
0:34.6	President Henry B. Iring taught,
0:36.6	with all the differences in our
0:38.5	lives, we have at least one challenge in common. We all must deal with adversity. A brave man I
0:44.8	knew wept and cried out in his physical suffering to those who ministered to him. I have always
0:50.6	tried to be good. How could this happen? Today on the podcast I'm talking with Dr. Mary Iring,
0:57.1	Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University. Dr. Iring studies early American literature,
1:03.4	and her research has immersed her in the physical and spiritual suffering of ordinary women and men,
1:09.3	who, like the man elder Elder Iring, spoke of,
1:12.6	reached their breaking point, but had to go on.
1:15.5	In our conversation, we turned to the work of theologian Sarah Bachelard, author of a short
1:21.3	book titled, Experiening God in a Time of Crisis.
1:25.5	We talked about how to move forward when a crisis, whether sudden
1:30.0	or slow motion, causes spiritual collapse and how the pattern of the atonement can give us
1:36.5	something to hold on to. In the second half of the show, Dr. Iring shares a very personal
1:42.0	account of her mother's long journey through early-onset
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