Unbelievable? Where is God in all the suffering? Amy Orr-Ewing and Jon Steingard

2020-10-03T00:00:00+01:00

Amy Orr-Ewing, co-director of OCCA and author of ‘Where Is God In All The Suffering?’, discusses the problem of pain with Jon Steingard, whose own doubts around Christian faith were triggered by seeing the suffering of children in Uganda.

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