Losing Hope? A Discussion on God & the Reality of Suffering | Alister McGrath & Alan Lightman
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February 9, 2021
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Dr. Alan Lightman, Author and MIT Professor and Physicist, and Dr. Alister McGrath, Oxford Professor of Science and Religion, explore questions of suffering, hope, and the possibility of God through the lenses of their individual worldviews.
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