Mark Vernon
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How meaning might be found in suffering

11 April 2022. From the archive of Mark's older writing; new posts are on Substack.

Each week, on Thursdays, we meet for Idler Drinks online, at which I give a short talk.

We’re not meeting over Easter, so this is an extra, reflecting on the Isenheim Altarpiece and the extraordinarily moving experience of Marian Partington, to ask how pain might be born with so much of it around.

A written version of the reflection is online here.