Conversation | Into the Quiet Experience | When Solitude Opens a Wound (Featuring Dan Allender)
What effect does trauma have on our capacity to hear God’s voice?
In this conversation, John Mark and Dr. Dan Allender—a therapist with 40 years of experience specializing in trauma—reflect on how the inner “tumult” of solitude might become the open door for Jesus to enter into our deepest wounds. The conversation is followed by a time of question and response.
This episode is from the Into the Quiet Experience in Seattle, Washington, in Fall 2026.
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Mentioned in this conversation:
- Psalm 22:1
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Psalm 139:17
- Ronald Rohlheiser
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