We live in an age of constant speech, hot takes, group chats, anonymous trolling, performative irony, weaponized labels, and endless commentary.

And yet, genuine communion seems harder than ever, and as a result, we are lonelier than ever.

We need some serious rewiring of how we communicate, how we speak, and how we use our tongues.

Today on the deep I'm joined by Father Gregory Pine, Dominican friar, preacher, teacher, and author,

to talk about his newest book, Training the Tongue, Growing Beyond the Sins of Speech, just out from the St. Paul Center.

We discuss what it means, not just to stop saying bad things, but how to learn to speak well,

to have real conversations, setting our speech free, truly free, so we can be the truthful,

charitable, humorous, courageous, and disciplined

saints we were born to become.

Father Pine, welcome to the deep.

Hey, thanks so much for having me.

It's great to have you here.

We're very excited.

We're talking about your new book, Training the Tongue.

This is a sick cover.

I thought I picked up like a Gene Simmons memoir or something with like the tongue hanging out.

Many people do think that.

We were going for Gene Simmons Memoir vibe.

Yeah.

Did you design the cover?

I don't design anything. I have no aesthetic sense whatsoever.

For me... So you became a Dominican, is that?

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