Harold Kushner Reads Job

Published: Oct. 3, 2012, 11 a.m.

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Harold Kushner first brought comfort and insight to many in 1981 with his best-selling self-help book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Since then, he\\u2019s continued to offer life- and faith-affirming messages, with such titles as When All You\\u2019ve Ever Wanted Isn\\u2019t Enough, and Living a Life That Matters. Now he returns to his original theme of suffering with The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person. In Job\\u2019s anguish and anger toward God, Kushner finds lessons on how one might remain faithful to a God who does not protect us from suffering.

Kushner talks with Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry about the very personal roots of this exploration, dating back to the 1970s, when his son Aaron was diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease (Aaron died in 1977, at age 14); about the depth and complexity of the Job verses; and about why he believes we must choose between an all-loving God and an...


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