Episode 807: "The Sacred Art Of Reading" with Trip Lee - Part Two

Southside Rabbi

KB and Ameen Hudson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Southside Tribe! In this next episode, we dive a bit deeper into why developing the discipline of reading isn’t just an intellectual hobby for bookworms — it’s a spiritual practice of love, patience, and seeking truth. Pulling from real-life ministry moments, cultural tensions, and biblical wisdom, Trip, KB and Ameen explore how rushed, shallow engagement is fracturing communities, fueling suspicion, and eroding our witness. From immigration misconceptions to conspiracy culture, and even some satanic panic, we unpack how slowing down to actually learn about people — and from people — is a form of Christian love. We talk about the gym-like journey of growing in knowledge, why motives matter, and how repetition, and steady formation shape us more deeply than quick hits of information ever could. This episode is yet another invitation to embrace reading as a pathway to wholeness, humility, and Christlike integrity. Pull up! Episode on all audio platforms, and bonus content on our Patreon community!! Become a Patreon member for Early Access & Exclusive Bonus Content - https://patreon.com/Southsiderabbi Southside Rabbi is proudly sponsored by Redeem Healthshare, a division of Samaritan Ministries. Learn more here: https://hubs.ly/Q03MQXV_0 Southside Rabbi is proudly sponsored by Native Supply - grab SR merch there! https://www.native.supply https://native.supply/collections/southside-rabbi Follow us Online: Southsiderabbipodcast.com https://linktr.ee/southsiderabbi Email us at Southsiderabbipodcast@gmail.com Intro music produced by Randeaux- https://www.instagram.com/randeauxbandeaux/ Contact at randeauxbandeaux@gmail.com All rights reserved by their respective owners. #KB #Ameen #Podcast

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0:00.0	Previously on Southside Rabbi.
0:02.0	I love education, but I think that it also can warp our understanding of reading
0:06.0	because the context by which we have read a lot in our lives is we have read for assignment.
0:11.0	So I'm only reading in order to get information for this assignment for this class that I have to pass.
0:16.0	I don't think school has always done a great job at teaching us to read for joy.
0:21.1	So I'm thinking of the people who are already not readers and who are like, y'all just some
0:24.2	old, bougie nerds who just don't seem as nerdy because y'all are connected to rap, but y'all
0:28.7	just nerds, you know, y'all just like reading. Why are we making such a big push for reading?
0:34.1	Maybe a healthier question sometimes would be, why wouldn't you if you have access?
0:37.9	There it is.
0:38.6	Bob.
0:54.1	There's a lot of points that's been made about reading here.
0:55.0	And let me say, actually, one quick aside too, I love how Tripp is very pastorally,
1:01.0	thinking about the ways in which people may hear this and be like, well, what about this?
1:06.8	If you come from reform culture, which we come from, there is a lot of pushback on reading too much and how knowledge becomes a substitute for love.
1:21.7	I think it was John Wesley said that a spoonful of love weighs more than a library of books.
1:30.1	There is...
1:30.5	That's good.
1:31.2	It's fine.
1:31.8	Yeah, it's hard.
1:33.8	And there's a lot to be said.
1:35.3	Even Paul talked about how knowledge puffs up.
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