Anthony Stern

Dr. Anthony Stern attended Harvard College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He has worked in a variety of settings as a community psychiatrist, currently at Mental Health Association of Westchester and Montefiore primary clinics in the Bronx. He has written and given talks about the interface between religion and psychology over the last twenty years.

Answer to Old Question

Q. How did she answer that oft-asked question: why do bad things happen to good people?

A. The question we're addressing now is probably the most difficult, trying question — impossible question — of the whole world. I don't think I or Mother Teresa can succeed where angels have feared to tread and where great philosophers have devoted their whole lives to trying to answer that very question. It's a question that one doesn't, I think, answer in linear logic. It's a question that one answers with one's life. Words or thoughts definitely fall short. One of the things Mother Teresa says to address this, one of her lovelier answers: ''God is still love. He is still loving the world. Today God loves the world so much that he gives you and he gives me to love the world, to be his love and compassion.''
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Dr. Stern has very sensitively and carefully given us the essence of a truly spiritual person, and in the process helped make prayer in our own lives more rewarding.
— Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Director, The Center for Interreligious Understanding
"People throughout the world may look different or have a different religion, education, or position, but they are all the same. They are the people to be loved. They are all hungry for love"
~ Mother Teresa
"Everything Starts from Prayer"

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