Mother Teresa
Host Karen Wright Marsh tells the little known story of Mother Theresa and discusses her complex life with Jonathan Merritt, award-winning faith and culture writer.
While Mother Theresa (1910-1997) lived, she was an icon of smiling sanctity, yet her private posthumous letters reveal the dark side of her faith: a reckoning with God’s silence. Was Mother Theresa a hypocrite after all? Or is she the perfect saint for our lonely, anxious times?
Guest Jonathan Merritt is an award-winning writer on religion, culture, and politics. He writes for The Atlantic and is the author of several critically-acclaimed books including: Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words are Vanishing - and How We Can Revive Them. Jonathan has published more than 3500 articles in respected outlets from The New York Times to Christianity Today. Learn more at jonathanmerritt.com.
For further reading, Karen recommends:
“A Saint’s Dark Night” by James Martin in The New York Times
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