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The Long and Winding Road: My Dad’s Alzheimer’s in 32 Tweets

November 1, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, dementia

My Dad’s Alzheimer’s in 46 Tweets

May 7, 2019 by Randal

This article consists of a series of tweets which tell the story of my experience of my father’s Alzheimer’s Disease from right before his diagnosis in December 2017 to his death on April 3, 2019 and the hope of the resurrection that remains. Interesting, after I added up all the tweets, I realized I had […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, dad, dementia, father, problem of evil, problem of suffering

Dementia: A Philosopher’s Lament

August 4, 2018 by Randal

Douglas Groothuis. Walking Through Twilight: A Wife’s Illness–A Philosopher’s Lament (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Books). On December 19, 2017, we received the official diagnosis: Alzheimer’s disease. While it was terrible news — a literal death sentence — we were not surprised: Dad had been on the decline for months, and truth be known, the doctor was […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: dementia, Douglas Groothuis, lament, pastoral theology, problem of evil

I feel love. It’s about love: Still Alice as Theodicy

January 9, 2017 by Randal

Lisa Genova’s 2007 novel Still Alice tells the story of Harvard professor and scholar Alice Howland and her journey living with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Howland is a few months into her fiftieth birthday when she receives the terrible diagnosis. From there the book follows her on her slow and painful decline into dementia. At first […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alzheimer's Disease, dementia, God, natural evil, problem of evil, Still Alice, theodicy

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