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The Books We Read Jaran Miller and Reagan Schrock
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Informal discussions about the books that Reagan Schrock and Jaran Miller have been reading.
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Book Discussion of "Live Not by Lies" and "12 Rules for Life"
After Reagan says, “Can we get a little more nuanced?! Can we have a more interesting conversation than ‘the sky is falling!’ We’re not political commentators, because that would be boring and lame.” in response to Jaran's report on Rod Dreher’s "Live Not by Lies,” we muse on Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life,” prolonging our 35 perilous minutes of talking out loud about books by two controversial characters. In short, we’ll go so far as to recommend “12 Rules for Life,” but we think that “Live Not by Lies” is boring.
Live Not by Lies: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53438190-live-not-by-lies
12 Rules for Life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30257963-12-rules-for-life
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The music at the beginning and the end is from Blue Dot Sessions. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony is a public domain recording. -
Book Discussion of "Man's Search for Meaning" and "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
“Buy a copy right now and go read it,” says Reagan about Frankl's “Man’s Search for Meaning.” After his enthusiastic review and recommendation, we morphed into a conversation about Douglas Adams’ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” which questions man’s existance and proposes that it’s meaning is “42,” or something like that. Perhaps an epistemological dead end, but at least it has poetry.
Man’s Search for Meaning: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
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The music is from Blue Dot Sessions -
Book Discussion of "Moby-Dick" and "The Virtues of War"
It turns out that the serpentine course of Ahab and Ishmael’s hunt for a whale illustrates "man's search for meaning in a world of deceptive appearances and fatal delusions.” Furthermore, Ishmael's taxonomy of whales merely demonstrates "the limitations of scientific knowledge and the impossibility of achieving certainty.” In other words, the book is too long for a good reason. Also, “The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great” by Steven Pressfield is really good.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153747.Moby_Dick_or_The_Whale
The Virtues of War: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/73490691-the-virtues-of-war
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The music is from Blue Dot Sessions. -
Book Discussion of "The Better Angels of Our Nature" and "The Patient Ferment of the Early Church"
Jaran and Reagan are back to talk about Steven Pinker’s "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" and Alan Kreider's "The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire." You might hear us being unsure what to do with the arguments in these books. We’d love to hear your thoughts.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13543093-the-better-angels-of-our-nature
Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29340854-do-humankind-s-best-days-lie-ahead
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26266696-the-patient-ferment-of-the-early-church
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2022 Recap: 15 of Our Favorite Books That We Read Last Year
We read many worthy books that didn't make it onto the podcast last year. This episode mentions 15 books that we love but didn't mention to you until now.
Proper Confidence by Lesslie Newbigin - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/273775.Proper_Confidence
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People
Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings by Sheri Zook https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56169056-peanut-butter-and-dragon-wings
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398748-doing-good-better
Unapologetic by Francis Spufford https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15929332-unapologetic
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-can-t-ignore-you
Neither Complimentarian Nor Egalitarian by Michelle Lee-Barnwall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26266693-neither-complementarian-nor-egalitarian
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34536488-principles
The Man Who Was Thursday by G K. Chesterton https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184419.The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday
The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33279.Clock_of_the_Long_Now
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74034.Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning
The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30072433-the-platonic-tradition
Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/863971.Atheist_Delusions
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157466.The_Supper_of_the_Lamb
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Book Discussion of "The Communist Manifesto" and "The Lessons of History"
Jaran and Reagan are back to talk about Marx's "Communist Manifesto" and Will Durant's "The Lessons of History." We are interested in and somewhat skeptical of the Manifesto, but we're big fans of Durant's book.
The Lessons of History: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174713.The_Lessons_of_History
The Communist Manifesto: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30474.The_Communist_Manifesto
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The music is from Blue Dot Sessions with the exception of Beethoven's 5th Symphony that shows up in the middle.