That's the only way to essentially cast off the prison bars of self-worship,

which is what's going to enslave you if you follow the wisdom of this book.

Hey friends, welcome to the Alisa Childers Podcast.

I am excited to talk to you today about a book I recently read called Untamed by Glennon Doyle.

And I'm going to give you my thoughts on that in just a moment, but I want to take a second here

and tell you about today's sponsor. If you're not familiar with the Ministry of Impact 360,

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which is a nine-month gap year program for high school graduates to go and attend before they

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what this program does and how it invests in the lives of these young people. So if there's a

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Again, that's impact360.org. So I want to tell you about this book that I just read called Untamed

by Glennon Doyle. At the time I read it, it was number one across all platforms and all genres.

So it was number one on Amazon. It was number one on the New York Times bestseller list for many,

many weeks. I'm seeing quotes and ideas from the book being shared all over social media.

And typically something like this wouldn't interest me except that. I'm seeing a lot of people who

identify themselves as Christian sort of buying into a lot of the ideas in the book. So I decided to go

ahead and read the book. And I actually posted a review on the gospel coalition. It's also available

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