Ep. 439 - The Pain That Leads to Life: On Suffering, Ideology, and the Wisdom of Christ, with Fr. Turbo Qualls

Fr. Turbo Qualls returns to Counterflow for a conversation about suffering, spiritual growth, ideology, and the wisdom of the Orthodox Church. We discuss why suffering is so often something we try to escape, even though it can be essential to our spiritual growth. We also explore how easily we can become attached to ideologies, political movements, and our own understanding of the world, sometimes without realizing how much these attachments shape the way we see everything around us. Fr. Turbo offers some valuable insights into these subjects, and I'm grateful to have him back on the show.

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