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And now, today's podcast episode.

All right.

Britt Hartley, how are you?

I'm so good.

I was out of town last week with my husband,

celebrating his 40th birthday. And I'm excited for today's podcast because I was reading,

this was my beach read, Strange Rights, New Religions for a Godless World. It's talking about how people

are moving away from organized

religion, but what are the new religions that are popping up to deal with the same human

needs that create religion? So it talked about wellness culture being a religion, and then it

talks about transhumanism being a religion. It talked about social justice being a

religion. And it's just really, really interesting because I don't know how to do beach reads.

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