Episode 244 || ”Faith” Books, Whatever That Means

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Since talking about censorship wasn't hard enough, we've taken it upon ourselves--at listener behest--to talk about one of the hardest, most personal things there is: faith. These are some of the books that got us thinking and growing and changing, and we hope, at the very least, that they are useful to your journey. You can read Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Daniel Cox's piece on 538. You can listen to the "Apocalypse Now" episode of NPR's Throughline podcast here. You can listen to our old, old episode on "grief literature" here. Also, The Life of Pi came out in 2002, which we know now! + Leaving Church by by Barbara Brown Taylor + A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis + Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon + The Life of Pi by Yann Martel + A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza + Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl + Walking on Water by Madeleine L'Engle + Christ and Culture by Richard Neibuhr + Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans + The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry + The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein + Small Blessings by Martha Woodruff + Hogfather by Terry Pratchett Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like our Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.

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0:00.0	Okay, I don't think I've ever shared this story with you.
0:04.0	Oh.
0:04.4	But I mentioned it at a dinner we were at recently.
0:08.0	And so it occurred to me that I think you would find it funny.
0:11.7	I'm excited.
0:12.6	So you know how you and I are always talking about, well, not always, but I think when we do like our TV episodes, we're always like pitching shows
0:21.9	to basically the non-existent screenwriters listening.
0:26.3	Okay, so I've got another one, but I'm like copywriting this verbally.
0:30.9	I just copyright it.
0:32.3	That's how it works.
0:33.6	TM, TM, TM, TM.
0:35.5	So when I graduated college, I did not, as many people, I did not have a job yet, didn't know what I was going to do.
0:45.5	But I had a job offer in Montgomery at my college, which was like a last resort situation.
0:52.5	But I thought, yeah, but I thought, well, maybe I'll live in Montgomery with my good friend, Amanda.
0:59.2	We never got to live together in college.
1:01.0	She was from Montgomery, so she was like an off-campus student.
1:04.8	Anyway, so we proceeded to do what you did back in 2007, which is we like searched the want ads for apartments.
1:14.4	Craigslist? Um, no. Like the actual want ads. Okay. Like actual want ads. You know Craigslist was around.
1:21.3	Yeah, it was. I don't know if Montgomery had caught onto that yet. Uh, nor do I know if we had caught onto that.
1:28.0	We literally searched the want ads, like,
1:30.8	which is why this would make for a great sitcom.
1:32.6	Yeah.
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