Dominic sat down with Shelbi Shutt for a thoughtful conversation about suffering, faith, and what redemption looks like over time.

Shelbi is a pastor, speaker, and writer who has spent years helping people navigate faith honestly, especially in seasons marked by limitation and uncertainty. She’s served in church leadership for a long time, including A Jesus Church in Portland, and she currently serves at Church of the City New York with pastor Jon Tyson. She has also been involved with work through Alpha USA, Practicing the Way, and other formation spaces focused on lived discipleship.

In this conversation, Shelbi shares about being diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a teenager and how that moment reshaped her sense of identity, faith, and the future she imagined. She talks openly about grief, weakness, and the slow work of learning how to stay present to God without rushing toward easy answers. Together, Dominic and Shelbi reflect on dependence, presence, and belonging, drawing from Scripture and voices like Eleonore Stump, Augustine, Irenaeus and John Swinton.

They also talk about forgiving God and why the church’s response to disability and long-term suffering needs to be rethought. The conversation keeps returning to one central idea: healing doesn’t always mean things change, but it does mean not being alone.

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