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And we are finally back! This is a short yet powerful read that we hope you enjoyed as much as we did. 

As promised here is the link for the book that we are looking at for our next, very special, episode with the author himself

https://a.co/d/4KI017c

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Welcome to our humble little show. Glad you stopped by. In today’s episode we look at a work by Thomas Sowell called Conflict of Visions. This isn’t an easy read but it has proven to be a very important work by Dr Sowell that we believe can be very helpful. We hope that you were helped by the book and by our subsequent discussion.

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Well hey everybody. We are finally back with a new episode. Today we are looking at Abraham Heschel’s book Sabbath. In this book he explores the idea of Sabbath from a hebraic perspective. We think this can be a helpful book as we think through this theme that we find from Genesis 1 all the way through the end of the Scriptures. 

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Whats up everybody, happy weekend from the Supplementalists. We must have a thing for stories that don’t have a happy ending here at the Supplementalist. This week Paul Jamie and Steve are looking at a poignant and tragic story by John Steinbeck called The Pearl.  There is a lot to think about and wrestle with in this short novel and we hope it was thought provoking and our conversation helpful.  

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Well hello everybody welcome back to the Supplementalist. We hope that you are all having a fantastic 2025 so far. In todays episode we are taking our first foray into the greatest of all English writers, the inestimable William Shakespeare. We are going to be looking at brief selection of his sonnets. Here is a list (not necessarily in the order we cover them)

• 30, 73 (aging/ regret)
• 91 (heartbreak)
• 29 (jealousy)
• 106 (time)
• 27 (weary)
• 18, 116 (love/ most popular)

We hope that you took some time and read and/or listened to them, and that our conversation is helpful.

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Welcome back dear listener. We are here again with a new book and a new episode. Our book for today is The Road, a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. This book explores the theme of fatherhood among others. We realize this is not an easy read at times but we believe it is worth it in the end.

As mentioned the next episode we will be looking at some selected Sonnets from the one and only William Shakespeare. The Sonnets that we will be looking at are:

• 30, 
• 73 
• 91 
• 29
• 106
• 27
• 18
• 116

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Happy New Year! Well 16 days late. We take our time here at the Supplementalist, well our audio editing guy does - come on Steve! Today is a bonus episode to kick off the new year. We will get back to our regularly scheduled programing next week.
This week we have a special episode were we are looking at an article from an organization called Public Discourse. This particular essay is from Joshua Hren with the title of "The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature”
You can find the article here

We hope this was a helpful article that that you benefited from our conversation about it

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Merry Christmas from the Supplementalists. We pray that you have had a great Advent and Christmas season. Today we take a look at one of the most beloved children's books of the past 100 years, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. We hope that we enjoyed reading this book with your families.

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Happy December everyone! its kinda crazy how quickly this year has gone by but here we are looking at another Christmas and New Year right around the corner. Today we are looking at a Jack London short story, To Build a Fire. This is a classic Jack London story of man vs nature with a dog in the mix. We hope that you were helped by it and provoked to thought and contemplation as he explores the themes of pride and foolhardiness.

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Happy Thanksgiving! We hope this book was a cornucopia of reading delight. Seriously though, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did. At first blush it may seem like a zany, offbeat comedy and thats about it, but we think there is more going on under the surface. Hopefully our conversation is helpful in untangling - just a little bit - this nihilistic sci-fi. So enjoy some Turkey and Mashed Potatoes and wash it down with a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and have a great Thanksgiving