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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Finding Hope in Suffering with Joe Hoover, SJ
Description: Last year was a tough year. This year has gotten off to a rocky start.
Many of us – on more than one occasion – have thrown up our hands and said, “Why God? Why is this happening?”
Joe Hoover, a Jesuit brother, actor and writer, asked this very question in his new book, O Death, Where is Thy Sting? He asked it again and again as he reflected back on experiences his had throughout his own life: experiences in El Salvador, experiences at the gravesides of young people, experiences coping with 9/11 and the wars that followed.
Suffering, as it turns out, is not a...