Why Does God Let Us Suffer? with Vaneetha Risner - SUMMER REPLAY

You're listening to the Confronting Christianity podcast.

I'm here with my friend Vinita Reisner.

Hi Vinita, how are you? Good, how are you? I am doing well, thank you.

For those not yet familiar with Vinita and her work, Vinita writes and speaks about finding hope in suffering.

Her Bible study, Desperate for Hope, Questions We Ask God in Suffering, Loss and Longing, as well as her memoir, Walking Through Fire, encourage readers to turn to Christ in their pain.

Her own story includes childhood bullying, losing an infant son, developing post-polio syndrome and going through an unwanted divorce.

If you want to read more of Vanitha's work.

She has a website, vanitha.com. She's a regular contributor for Desiring God, has been featured on Family Life Today, Life Today TV and Joni and Friends.

And Vanitha, I think you hold a bachelor's degree in business from University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.

So I'm sort of curious, before we get into the meat of our conversation about...

Well, maybe that was a period of suffering going through Stanford Business School.

I don't know.

I'd love to hear more about your kind of professional life when you were fresh out of Stanford Business School.

What did you end up doing?

You're listening to the Confronting Christianity podcast.

I'm here with my friend Vinita Reisner.

Hi Vinita, how are you? Good, how are you? I am doing well, thank you.

For those not yet familiar with Vinita and her work, Vinita writes and speaks about finding hope in suffering.

Her Bible study, Desperate for Hope, Questions We Ask God in Suffering, Loss and Longing, as well as her memoir, Walking Through Fire, encourage readers to turn to Christ in their pain.

Her own story includes childhood bullying, losing an infant son, developing post-polio syndrome and going through an unwanted divorce.

If you want to read more of Vanitha's work.

She has a website, vanitha.com. She's a regular contributor for Desiring God, has been featured on Family Life Today, Life Today TV and Joni and Friends.

And Vanitha, I think you hold a bachelor's degree in business from University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.

So I'm sort of curious, before we get into the meat of our conversation about...

Well, maybe that was a period of suffering going through Stanford Business School.

I don't know.

I'd love to hear more about your kind of professional life when you were fresh out of Stanford Business School.

What did you end up doing?