In this episode, Shannon welcomes back Sean Berube for the second week of an immersive thirteen-week series exploring Saint Augustine’s timeless masterpiece, Confessions. This episode delves into Book Two, where Augustine reflects on his sixteenth year—a pivotal moment marked by the stirrings of lust and a haunting act of youthful rebellion: the infamous pear tree theft. Listen in as Shannon and Sean unpack the poetic agony of Augustine’s descent into disordered desires, examining how his burning eros, misdirected toward worldly pleasures and peer approval, blinds him to the divine.