Last week was admittedly pretty random here on the podcast, but this week has a much more connected feel to it. It might seem weird as a millennial to be criticizing millennials, but I think we as a generation deserve it sometimes.

1. Why I Stopped Going to Church by Jeron from Medium

2. Does Morality Depend on Religion? by Annie Holmquist from Intellectual Takeout

3. The Abolition of Mad Men by Justin Dyer from National Review

4. Why Are Millennials Wary of Freedom? by Clay Routledge from the New York Times

5. How Millennials Became 'Generation Meh' by Teresa Mull from The American Conservative

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What an excellent week of articles! I had so many possible options to talk about that it was difficult to narrow it down only five. I hope I did justice to these five that I did choose, and they are a bit longer, so please stick with them because I think all five are valuable.

1. Thoughts on Vegas, and Why Men Keep Doing This by Charlie Hoehn from be yourself

2. What Rick and Morty Fans' Meltdown over McDonald's Szechuan Sauce Says about Geek Culture by Aja Romano from Vox 

3. Millennials Are So Terrified Of Religion They’re Developing One Around Harry Potter by Amelia Hamilton from The Federalist

4. In a Divided Culture, Church Singing Can Unite and Invite by Brett McCracken from The Gospel Coalition

5. How the Fear of Uncertainty Leads to a Loss of Freedom by Elise Daniel from the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics

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This week on the podcast is highly focused on education. I'm not sure why, but I guess those are just the articles I happened to come across. I hope you enjoy it!

1. How Music and Shakespeare Turned Around a Failing School by Annie Holmquist from Intellectual Takeout

2. How Books Designed for Soldiers’ Pockets Changed Publishing Forever by Cara Giaimo from Atlas Obscura

3. What Da Vinci Can Teach Us about Education by Martin Cothran from Intellectual Takeout

4. Tell Me What You Read, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are by Zat Rana from Medium

5  Text Messages: 'Pro-Life' Congressman Allegedly Tells Woman He Had Affair With To Abort Their Child by Amanda Prestigiacomo from The Daily Wire

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What a week it was, and my articles this week quite frankly have no uniform theme. Yes, two of them are about Facebook, but they are thematically quite different, so this is going to be a little bit random. I hope you like it though!

1. Uber's Former Self Driving Lead Is Creating an AI Religion by Rachel England from Engadget

2. Millennials, Marriage, and the 'Success Sequence' by Joseph Sunde from the Acton Institute PowerBlog

3. What Has Facebook Done to Political Discourse? by T. Adams Upchurch from The Imaginative Conservative

4. Facebook's War on Free Will by Franklin Foer from The Guardian

5. The Joy Of Traditionalism by Rod Dreher from The American Conservative

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I found some great things to read this week. For once, I actually have some good news, so you certainly are not going to get that on your cable news network of choice. Although I start out with a story that seems a little bit negative, stick with me. This is definitely a happy week.

1. Why Our Civil Discourse Is Broken by Annie Holmquist from The Imaginative Conservative

2. Black Lives Matter Leader: What I Experienced At Pro-Trump Rally 'Restored My Faith In Some Of These People' by James Barrett from The Daily Wire

3. The Nuclear War That Almost Was and the Man Who Prevented It by Brittany Hunter from The Stream

4. A Do-It-Yourself Liberal Education by Charles Lipson from RealClear Politics

5. When Adventure Comes Calling: Celebrating 80 Years of The Hobbit by Liberty McArtor from The Stream

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Well, we're back again with the second ever edition of Five Things I Read This Week. I had a little bit more free time to read this week, so you'll notice that my sources are rather diverse as some of the articles are rather lengthy. There is definitely some great stuff you don't want to miss you though!

1. Oh Cool, a New App Aims to Make Mom-and-Pop Stores Obsolete by the Relevant staff from (surprise) Relevant

2. The World Turned Upside Down (and what to do about it) by Russ Roberts from Medium

3. Why You Should Stop Trying To Change People’s Minds by David Marcus from The Federalist

4. Dismantling the Idea of the West by Bradley Birzer from The Imaginative Conservative

5. American Ninja Warrior: Villains Need Not Apply by Jessica Snell from Christ and Pop Culture

Enjoy!

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Well, this is it, the inaugural episode of Five Things I Read This Week. My one and only chance to make a good first impression. The five articles I am going to be talking about are:

1. Educating the Educated: The Why and How of Liberal Education for Adults by Eva Marie Haine from The Public Discourse

2. Why Is Work Good? Six Quick Reminders on Labor Day by Hugh Whelchel from the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics

3. Our Perpetual Political War Is Poisoning Us by Melissa Langsam Braunstein from The Federalist

4. Collateral Damage in Trump’s War with the ‘Fake News Media’ by Daniel Kishi from The American Conservative

5. In A Religiously And Politically Polarized Country, Is There Still Hope For Shared Ground? by Gracy Olmsted from The Federalist

I hope you will come back for future episodes!