Lessons our bodies teach us about living in troubled times

Tonight’s guest first learned about Dr. Paul Brand when his wife stumbled upon an article Dr. Brand had written entitled The Gift of Pain.  While most people desperately want to be free from pain, Dr. Brand spent much of his career trying to create a pain system for his patients.  Dr. Brand studied medicine in London during some of the darkest days of World War II, when German bombers pounded the city – sometimes for weeks on end.  He returned to India, where he grew up, in 1946 and began working with leprosy patients – people considered the lowest of the low in Indian society.  He would go on to achieve world renown for his treatment of the disease. 

Tonight, we’re joined by Philip Yancey, the author of 25 books including Disappointment with God and What’s So Amazing About Grace? Philip co-authored several books with Dr. Brand and became very close to him, often calling him the father he never had. Philip recently combined and updated two of these books for release this past August under the title, Fearfully and Wonderfully: The Marvel of Bearing God’s Image. Philip joins us to share some of his memories of Paul, and some of Paul’s many insights into the workings of the human body and the lessons they teach in today’s deeply divided world.