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Why do good people suffer? What does it mean when pain and loss enter our lives without warning? In this profoundly moving episode of From God To Jerry To You, Jerry L. Martin shares a personal story that brings the universal question of suffering into sharp, intimate focus.

When Jerry’s wife, Abigail, experienced a series of life-threatening health crises—a broken hip, emergency surgery, and a near-fatal internal bleed—Jerry found himself grappling with what he has long called the unanswerable question: Why does a loving God allow pain?

These events tested not only his faith but his capacity for love, resilience, and presence in the face of real fear.

Drawing from his dialogues with God and his books God: An Autobiography, and Radically Personal, Jerry reflects on whether suffering has meaning, purpose, or any redeeming qualities. He discusses how caregiving became a spiritual practice and how supporting a loved one can transform pain into an expression of love in action, discovering how moments of crisis can unmask the deepest truths about our relationships and ourselves.

Listeners will hear how faith can be reshaped by hardship, why caregiving can feel both like a burden and a blessing, and how love often shows itself most clearly when everything else falls away. Whether you are spiritual but not religious, exploring your own questions about suffering and purpose, or simply interested in hearing one man’s honest story of struggle and faith, this episode offers insight and encouragement.

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.

From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.

Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.

Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.

What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.

What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.

What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue.

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What Is God’s Story? Ongoing Revelation, Personal Experience, and the Language of Story

In the newest What's On Our Mind, Scott Langdon and Jerry L. Martin explore how God’s story is dynamic and evolving, not a fixed account from the past. They reflect on how revelation continues today and how personal experience shapes our understanding of the divine.

Jerry discusses why God grows through interaction with humanity and how reading ancient texts reveals an ongoing conversation between God and humankind. They consider Swedenborg’s insights about continuous revelation and the role of modern spiritual messengers.

The conversation also explores empathy as a path to understanding God, trusting your own experiences of the sacred, and recognizing how your life becomes a chapter in God’s autobiography.

Discover why spiritual growth is always personal, and why God’s story is still unfolding.

Related Episodes:

238. What’s Your Spiritual Story: Ray Silverman on Swedenborg, Modern Revelation, and Eternal Love

237. Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue - How A Radically Personal God Works In Real Lives

236. From God to Jerry To You- How To Hear God’s Call In Your Own Life

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.

From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.

Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.

Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.

What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.

What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.

What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue.

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In this episode of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, Dr. Jerry L. Martin talks with Dr. Ray Silverman, a Swedenborgian minister who grew up in a passionately atheist home but always felt a hidden connection to God.

From secretly praying under the covers as a child to later discovering Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings on eternal marriage and universal salvation, Ray shares how his journey led him beyond traditional religion into a deeply personal spiritual life.

Together, Jerry and Ray explore what it means to be spiritual but not religious, how modern revelation continues today, and why spiritual transformation often begins with questioning inherited beliefs. Ray recounts the pain of being disowned by his father when he became a minister, and the joy of finding a faith that embraces love as eternal.

They discuss how Swedenborg’s teachings align with insights in God: An Autobiography, affirming that God speaks to each person in a way they can understand.

Dr. Silverman, author of Rise Above It: Spiritual Development for College Students, also shares how he applies the Ten Commandments in modern life without dogma, helps others overcome “idols” like procrastination, and guides people to attune to divine purpose through everyday moments.

Whether you’re curious about Swedenborgian theology, interested in modern revelation, or seeking your own spiritual story, this episode offers profound reflections on faith, love, and the ongoing presence of God.

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.

From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.

Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.

Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.

What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.

What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.

What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue.

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In this deeply personal and spiritually rich episode, philosopher Jerry L. Martin is joined by Abigail L. Rosenthal for an intimate conversation about divine encounters, spiritual awakening, and what it means to experience a radically personal God.

Drawing from Jerry’s new book Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, the discussion explores how spiritual truth is not one-size-fits-all and why each individual’s connection to the divine can look entirely unique.

Jerry reflects on being called to tell God’s story across different cultures and religious traditions, while Abigail shares a powerful mystical experience that sustained her through a long and painful chapter in her life.

Together, they discuss Jewish philosophy, personal spirituality, the rejection of Original Sin, and how trusting one’s inner spiritual compass can lead to deep transformation.

This episode speaks directly to seekers, skeptics, and anyone exploring their own spiritual path. It is a thoughtful and emotional journey into faith and doubt, divine presence, mystical experience, and the call to live with spiritual purpose.

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.

From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.

Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.

Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.

What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.

What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.

What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue.

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In this episode of From God To Jerry To You, we explore the moment that changed everything: when Jerry heard God's voice for the first time. What began as a private prayer became a divine calling—“Tell My Story.”

But what does that mean in a world of many religions, traditions, and truths?

Jerry shares how God's message was not confined to one faith or one people, but revealed in different ways across history and cultures.

From ancient Israel to India, from sacred texts to personal moments of clarity, divine Reality calls to each of us uniquely.

Can we hear that call in our own lives? What does it mean to be part of God's story today?

This episode invites you to reflect on your own path and how to recognize your most intimate access to the divine.

Other Series on the Podcast:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book, God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher, and now includes several unique series:

• The Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
• From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
• Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
• What’s On Our Mind: Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
• Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue: A personal, philosophical, and spiritual conversation between soulmates.
• What’s On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?
• What’s Your Spiritual Story: Submit your spiritual experience and hear it explored on the podcast.

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Romantic Awakening, Divine Listening, and the Inner Self

What does it mean to fall in love, not just with a person, but with the mystery of life itself?

In this heartfelt and thought-provoking episode of What's On Our Mind, Jerry and Scott reflect on the deep emotional and spiritual themes raised in recent episodes and discuss two new series: Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue, and What's Your Spiritual Story?

From romantic love and divine connection to shadow work and self-integration, they explore how transformation often begins with listening—really listening—to our hearts, our partners, and the quiet whisper of God.

Scott shares personal growth from theater, marriage, and divine interruptions. Jerry opens up about his "real conversion" which was not to religion, but to love itself.

Together, they trace the difference between merging and mutuality, between fantasy and devotion, and between reaction and responsibility.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever asked: Can I really be known, and loved, as a whole person?

Related Episodes:

234. What’s Your Spiritual Story: Mark Groleau on God, Process, and Change

233. Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue | Philosophers Answer: What Is Love

Other Series on the Podcast:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book, God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher, and now includes several unique series:

• The Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
• From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
• Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
• What’s On Our Mind: Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
• Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue: A personal, philosophical, and spiritual conversation between soulmates.
• What’s On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?
• What’s Your Spiritual Story: Submit your spiritual experience and hear it explored on the podcast.

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Welcome to What’s Your Spiritual Story: a new series from God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, featuring candid conversations with people whose spiritual lives have been reshaped by direct encounters with the divine.

In this first installment, Jerry L. Martin speaks with pastor and podcaster Mark Groleau, who returns to the show exactly 100 episodes after his original appearance.

Mark’s story is one of radical transformation. Raised in a strict Oneness Pentecostal tradition, he was trained to preach, taught to defend doctrine, and discouraged from asking questions. But once he began studying literature and scripture through a critical lens, everything changed. What followed was a deconstruction of his inherited faith, a period of atheism, and an eventual reawakening through a more expansive vision of God.

This episode follows Mark’s evolving relationship with the divine, from the static, all-powerful deity of classical theism to a God who suffers, listens, and grows. Influenced by thinkers like John Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Greg Boyd, and Terence Fretheim, Mark now embraces process theology, which sees God not as removed from the world but as intimately involved in its unfolding.

Jerry and Mark reflect on what it means to believe in a God who changes. They discuss suffering, divine vulnerability, and the tension between doctrine and experience. Mark also shares why Jesus’ teachings have become central to his life, and why many Christians, ironically, ignore them.

From Hebrew grammar to the Big Bang, from seminary classrooms to Buddhist temples in Korea, this is a conversation for anyone rethinking their faith and seeking something more relational, honest, and alive.

If you’ve ever wrestled with the question of who, or what, God really is, this conversation offers a starting point for something deeper.

Mentioned in this episode:
Creation Untamed by Terence Fretheim, Not Sure by John Suk, #JesusIsMyGuru, Process Theology, Open Theism, Wikigod Podcast, Bereshit, Patripassianism

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

• Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
• From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
• Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
• What's On Our Mind- Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
• What's On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?

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Welcome to the debut of a new series: Jerry and Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue, a conversation between two philosophers who are also deeply in love.

This is not just a love story. It is an exploration of what love means at the level of reality itself.

In this episode, Dr. Abigail L. Rosenthal and Dr. Jerry L. Martin ask a question deeply human and spiritually profound:

What is love and what does it reveal about the nature of the world we live in?

Through personal recollection, philosophical reflection, and cultural insight, they explore:

• The stroke of lightning: Romantic love as a break in the surface of reality
• Why biblical love stories begin the work of God
• Rachel as the sine qua non of sacred history
• Love as an ontological force more than emotion, embedded in being
• Spiritual meaning beyond religion, through feeling, intuition, and integrity
• Cultural contrasts: European vs. American views on love, purpose, and compatibility
• The role of gratitude, authenticity, and moral seriousness in real connection
• What it means to live in a disenchanted world and how love re-enchants it

"Love is not a delusion. It is what moves the sun and the other stars.” – Abigail L. Rosenthal

Jerry and Abigail remind us that truth is not always found in the dominant worldview. Often, it comes from moments that break through: a glance, a conversation, a shared fight for something that matters.

This intimate dialogue speaks to those who live at the edge of conventional categories, those who are spiritual but not religious, seekers of meaning, lovers of wisdom.

If you’ve ever felt there must be more to love than psychology, more to life than surface logic, this is your episode.

Begin here. With feeling. With thought. With two philosophers, in love.

Other Series:

The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:

• Life Wisdom Project: How to live a wiser, happier, and more meaningful life with special guests.
• From God To Jerry To You: Calling for the attention of spiritual seekers everywhere, featuring breakthroughs, pathways, and illuminations.
• Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: Sit in on a dialogue between philosophers about God and the questions we all have.
• What's On Our Mind- Connect the dots with Jerry and Scott over the most recent series of episodes.
• What's On Your Mind: What are readers and listeners saying? What is God saying?

Stay Connected

• Share your thoughts or questions at questions@godandautobiography.com
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