Resilient Spirit: A Conversation with John Eldredge

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We’re joined again by author John Eldredge to talk about the hope that we can hold onto as we work through the collective and personal trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not accomplished through a to-do list, but rather through small practices that gently guide us deeper into the hope and restoration that God offers.

John’s latest book, “Resilient: Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times,” identifies the warning signs of post-pandemic weariness while also pointing to the resilient human spirit and the hope we have in 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-Centen.
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.
0:30.2	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. John, welcome back. I have the great privilege for another week to have my dear, dear friend John Eldridge join us to talk about
0:40.2	his new book, Resilient.
0:42.3	And it's such an obvious statement, but it's like, buy it.
0:48.6	Buy it.
0:49.5	It will be a great gift for your summer reading.
1:14.3	Now, when I think of summer reading, I don't usually think about a book like this, but I think there is no better summer reading than to engage what has kept us, but also what will restore for us, something of our heart of joy, a sense of the goodness of God and the land of the living. And just to know, no chainsaw at the beginning of our time.
1:21.5	No chainsaw us. No chainsaws this week. I put it aside. You know, I cut down as many trees as I thought I would rightfully.
1:30.3	I told Becky about my chainsaw comment.
1:33.6	And she said, do you remember the one time you actually rented a chainsaw?
1:37.6	And your son, I think he was like 12 or 13.
1:41.3	So this is like 20 years ago.
1:43.4	Literally collapsed and began crying because he was sure that I was going to cut a limb off.
1:51.2	And like, yeah, so the idea that I was chained song really is, it's not a good image.
1:59.9	Well, and I know the idea of summer reading, honestly, there are many, many, many people
2:05.6	who are saying, again, because the effects and the cascade and all that we've been talking
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