We're continuing our new quarterly series featuring local luminaries choosing a favorite book to present and discuss. We're thinking Insightful. Thought-provoking. Stimulating. Challenging. Frank Stasio-WUNC radio's host of The State of Things-has chosen to discuss The Gift of Pain by Paul Brand and Philip Yancey. A world without pain? Such a place exists, but it's a colony for leprosy patients-a world where people literally feel no pain, and reap horrifying consequences. In working with leprosy patients in India and the U.S., Dr. Paul Brand has found that pain is one of God's great gifts to us. As an indicator that lets us know something is wrong, pain has a value that becomes clearest in its absence. The Gift of Pain looks at what pain is and why we need it.

The Gift of Pain: Why We Hurt and What We Can Do about It (Paperback)

By Paul Brand, Philip Yancey

$13.49

ISBN-13: 9780310221449
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Zondervan, 9/1997

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