A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: A Conversation With John Andrew Bryant

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Episode Notes

“To live with OCD is to be vulnerable to the machinations of your own mind...It is an Affliction that lives in me as a powerful, painful intimidation.” So writes John Andrew Bryant in his award-winning book A Quiet Mind to Suffer With: Mental Illness, Trauma, and the Death of Christ, a book in which he recounts how a mental breakdown, a stay in a psychiatric ward, and being diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder led to a life-changing understanding of who Jesus is and what following him is and isn’t about. He and Dr. Keith Plummer talk about his ongoing journey marked by affliction, mercy, and hope. They also discuss how the church can better serve those with mental illness.