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Pursuing Faith with Dominic Done
Do you want your faith in God to grow, but sometimes struggle with nagging doubts? What does it look like to believe in God in the face of life's hardest questions? Pursuing Faith seeks to unpack these questions through thought-provoking stories, conversation and hope. The host is Dominic Done - speaker, professor, and author of the books, "When Faith Fails: Finding God in the Shadow of Doubt" & "Your Longing Has A Name."
Pursuing Faith with Dominic Done
Faith and Ministry After a Mental Health Breakdown with Jesse Lusko
In this episode of Pursuing Faith, Dominic sits down with his friend Jesse Lusko, a pastor in Portland whose life and ministry were reshaped by a mental health breakdown that cost him the church he planted and nearly his life. They talk openly about childhood trauma, bipolar disorder, and the months of despair that followed his collapse, including stepping away from ministry and leaving the city he once loved.
Years later, Jesse returned to Portland with clarity and hard-won self-knowledge, planted a new church, and now leads a thriving community in one of the most secular cities in the country, baptizing people who once identified as atheists. This conversation explores mental health in the church, faith after breakdown, and the quiet work of return. It’s an honest and hopeful look at what can remain when certainty collapses but faith endures.
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