Jonathan Tepper on Grief, Addiction, Empathy, and Growing Up Missionary
About this episode
Jonathan Tepper discusses his memoir and explores themes of grief, addiction, and empathy with Frank Schaeffer.
Jonathan Tepper joins Frank Schaeffer to discuss his memoir Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction. The conversation explores growing up in Madrid during the AIDS crisis, missionary life among heroin addicts, the loss of Jonathan’s younger brother, literature, homeschooling, faith, suffering, and the role empathy plays in shaping human life. Frank and Jonathan also reflect on Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, prayer, grief, and the troubling loss of compassion inside modern American evangeli...
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