Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

And I'm Patrick Miller. A few years back a Yale

trained researcher, author, professor, and practitioner of psychiatry named Dr. Richard

Gallagher made quite a splash in the mental health community

because he wrote a op-ed in the Washington Post explaining how evidence from

over 30 years of practice and research had led him to believe in unseen evil, the demonic.

His article begins with the story of a patient he met in 1980 who could tell people their

secret weaknesses

without ever even meeting them.

He told the story of meeting with this person

for the first time, and when he met with her,

she described in detail how his mother died painfully from cancer.

And this wasn't the last experience that Dr. Gallagher had like this.

It led him to ask a question, and he posted that question in the Washington Post. I'll just read from his little

op-ed. Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist and believe that evil spirits are however

seldom a sealing humans.

Most of my scientific colleagues and friends say no,

but careful observation of the evidence presented to me in my career

has led me to believe that certain

extremely uncommon cases can be

explained in no other way. His point is clear he knows mental illnesses. He spent his

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