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What Happens When Suffering Opens Us Instead of Hardening Us.
Jonathan Tepper joins Frank Schaeffer for a deeply personal conversation about grief, addiction, faith, literature, and growing up in missionary families.
Jonathan’s parents started a rehab center for heroin addicts in Madrid during the AIDS crisis. The addicts became part of the family. Many died young. Jonathan also lost his younger brother in a terrible car accident and later lost his mother to suicide after brain surgery changed her life.
Frank and Jonathan talk honestly about suffering, memory, books, faith, homeschooling, missionary life, and what it means to remain openhearted in a culture that increasingly rewards cruelty and detachment.
Jonathan Tepper is the author of the memoir Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction.
Subscribe for more conversations with Frank Schaeffer.
LINKS
jonathan-tepper.com
Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction at Bookshop
bookshop.org/a/99692/9781964378138
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/jonathan-tepper-on-grief-addiction?utm_source=youtube
What Happens When Suffering Opens Us Instead of Hardening Us.
Jonathan Tepper joins Frank Schaeffer for a deeply personal conversation about grief, addiction, faith, literature, and growing up in missionary families.
Jonathan’s parents started a rehab center for heroin addicts in Madrid during the AIDS crisis. The addicts became part of the family. Many died young. Jonathan also lost his younger brother in a terrible car accident and later lost his mother to suicide after brain surgery changed her life.
Frank and Jonathan talk honestly about suffering, memory, books, faith, homeschooling, missionary life, and what it means to remain openhearted in a culture that increasingly rewards cruelty and detachment.
Jonathan Tepper is the author of the memoir Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction.
Subscribe for more conversations with Frank Schaeffer.
LINKS
jonathan-tepper.com
Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction at Bookshop
bookshop.org/a/99692/9781964378138
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/jonathan-tepper-on-grief-addiction?utm_source=youtube
