Hey! Back to our regularly scheduled postings this week! We recorded this back on Saint Patrick's Day, giving you a pretty good idea of how long it was before I actually started posting vs when we started recording.

Another chapter where MacDonald has some long discussions about faith and moves the plot forward at the end as an afterthought. While I really enjoyed the previous chapter's writing, even as a Christian I think MacDonald's pro-faith argument here is disingenuous. It seems very character based, and if 2019's taught me anything, it's that people are terrible judges of character. Of course, on the pro-side Irene's appearance in the mines was basically a miracle. Curdie should be prepared to believe some extraordinary stuff from that weird little girl.

Lydia surprised me with a shout-out to What If World this week. Mister Eric's work is fabulous and it's well-deserved.

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