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Happy Halloween! Or as us Protestants say "Happy Reformation Day.” Ok so basically no one says that.
Today we have a ghost story for you… well sort of. The story in question is a play not a book by Thornton Wilder called Our Town. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and find our conversation helpful.

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Ever wondered about what Pastors are actually called to do? today we take a look with the help of Harold Senkbeil in his work The Care of Souls. We hope this book was both encouraging and challenging to you 

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And we're back! After over a month hiatus we are finally back with a new episode and it is a good one. In this episode we are looking at Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. This is a master piece of storytelling and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did 

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Glad you're back! Today we are going to cover Gene Edwards rumination about leadership in his book A Tale of Three Kings. In this he works through ideas of leadership using Saul, David, and Absalom as the case studies.

We hope that you were helped and encouraged by this book.

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“A patchwork memory is the shame of a refugee” 
Thanks for stopping by! Today we explore Daniel Nayeri’s outstanding and beautifully written book Everything Sad is Untrue. We trust that you enjoyed this book as much as we did!  

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Hello again! So somehow I mixed up my episodes and released the wrong one a few episodes back and didn’t realize it until recently. So to rectify that we are dropping the missing episode now! We hope you enjoyed this fascinating book as much as we did!

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Welcome back! in this episode we take our first dive into J. R. R. Tolkien with his wonderful, and whimsical, and nothing like the movies (thank goodness) book The Hobbit. As always we hope you enjoyed the book and found our ramblings about it helpful. 

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Today instead of a book we read and discuss selected works from Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Poems that we read and discuss are:

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)
• Felix Randal (pg 150) 
• Binsey Poplars (pg 142) 
• God's Grandeur (pg 128)
• Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)
• The Windhover (pg 132)
• Pied Beauty (pg 132)

We hope you were edified and encouraged in adding poetry to your reading list

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And we’re back for Episode 15! This time we talk about a book about how to read books. The book is called Reading Between the Lines by Gene Edward Veith. We hope that this book and episode are helpful for you!

As for our next book the poems that we will be reading and discussing are (page numbers are from the Oxford World Classics Gerard Manley Hopkins Major Works):

• As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)
• Felix Randal (pg 150) 
• Binsey Poplars (pg 142) 
• God's Grandeur (pg 128)
• Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)
• The Windhover (pg 132)
• Pied Beauty (pg 132)

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Welcome to Episode 14 everyone! In this episode we take a look at Henri Nouwen’s work Return of the Prodigal Son. In this book Henri Nouwen explores the Prodigal Son by way of Rembrandt’s painting by the same name. We hope you enjoy the episode