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Podcast: The Thing with Feathers: birds and hope with Courtney Ellis
Episode: 89: Hope in Chronic Illness (Duane Bidwell)
Description: Duane Bidwell is the author, most recently, of the new book After the Worst Day Ever: What Sick Kids Know About Sustaining Hope in Chronic Illness, with Beacon Press. He’s a professor, a chaplain, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He also loves a raven, but we’ll get to that.Today’s episode is all about hope. Where we might find it, what we can learn from kids who have it—often against all odds—and how may serve as agents of hope to one another.We also dabble a little in...