The Books We Read

"Where was this book my whole life?" asks Reagan as he encounters human depravity in "The Gulag Archipelago." Jaran then reflects on what he's learning about some of the reasons for human disagreement from Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind."

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The three pieces of music in this episode come from Blue Dot Sessions. 

No. The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is in fact not in Canada or South America, nor is it an edition of macOS. Our cultural literacy is being weighed in the balance. Should it be found wanting, we are committed to recovery.

In this game show, Sara and Trish guide Jaran and Reagan through a random selection of entries in E. D. Hirsch's New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.

Visit kingdomoutpost.org to find our friends’ podcasts. Find Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller. Find Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock

This episode contains music from Blue Dot Sessions. "Kirkus" appears at the beginning. Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is from a public domain recording on Archive.org.

Reagan and Jaran both recently read "Jesus and John Wayne" by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. This podcast consists of both hosts responding to this book. We offer a little bit of critique, but mostly interest and appreciation.

Jesus and John Wayne: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53121662-jesus-and-john-wayne

Visit kingdomoutpost.org to find our friends’ podcasts. Find Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller. Find Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock

This episode contains music from Blue Dot Sessions. "Kirkus" appears at the beginning and "Lahaina" appears at the end.

Reagan talks about "Tintin in the Congo" by Georges Prosper Remi, better known as Hergé. Jaran talks about Brian Zahnd's news book "When Everything's on Fire." Both books are problematic. One embodies a problem and the other points out problems. We raise several questions in this episode and would love to hear your thoughts. What do you think?

Tintin in the Congo: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/235140.Tintin_in_the_Congo

When Everything's on Fire: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58154391-when-everything-s-on-fire

Visit kingdomoutpost.org to find our friends’ podcasts. All the music in this episode is from Blue Dot Sessions at sessions.blue. Find Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller. Find Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock

What do Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Cal Newport's "Deep Work" have in common? First, both address threats to our attention and maximum capacity and both have been given airtime on the latest episode of The Books We Read.

Brave New World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World

Deep Work: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work

Visit kingdomoutpost.org to find our friends’ podcasts. All the music in this episode is from Blue Dot Sessions at sessions.blue. Find Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller. Find Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock

Jaran talks about Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” and Reagan talks about Kevin Horsley’s “Unlimited Memory.” Though “Heart of Darkness” is one of the most studied books in academia, many such as China Achebe believe that it is harmful. How have you experienced this book? We want to hear from you. Visit kingdomoutpost.org to find our friends’ podcasts. All the music in this episode is from Blue Dot Sessions at sessions.blue. Find Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/jaranmiller. Find Reagan on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/reaganschrock

E. D. Hirsch's "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know" has inspired Jaran and Reagan to check up on each other, ensuring that they're appropriately culturally literate. In this episode, they quiz each other's cultural literacy by going through lists of questions on a website designed for this purpose.

For the quizes, we used the website "The Literacy Company": http://www.readfaster.com/culturalliteracy/ 

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Some music in this episode comes from Blue Dot Sessions, namely  "Kirkus" and "Minutes."

That weird music in the middle is licensed under Creative Commons and harvested from this website: https://freesound.org/people/ModulationStation/sounds/392465/

Reagan and Jaran read widely. When they sat down to plan their next sequence of episodes, they realized that they've been reading books that cannot be paired in any coherent way. Consequently, in the coming episodes, our dear listeners will be blessed with commentaries on very diverse books. Jaran talks about Harold Bender's "The Anabaptist Vision" in light of Stephen Dintaman's "The Spiritual Poverty of the Anabaptist Vision," and Reagan tells us about "Socrates: A Man for Our Times" by Paul Johnson.

The Anabaptist Vision: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1401627

The Spiritual Poverty of the Anabaptist Vision: http://www.nextreformation.com/wp-admin/documents/Dintaman.pdfhttp://www.nextreformation.com/wp-admin/documents/Dintaman.pdf

Socrates: a Man for our Times: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11909371-socrates

Follow Jaran on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74450648-jaran-miller.

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All the music in this episode comes from Blue Dot Session. Specifically, it includes their pieces called "Rafter," "Kirkus," and "Minutes."