The Buddha can’t make sense of suffering. Jesus does.
How do we deal with the rising tide of anxiety and depression that is exacerbated by our digital age? This was the question posed to the Buddhist Rachel Holmes, and the Christian John Mark Comer, on a recent episode of Unbelievable?.
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