You're listening to Quick to Listen.

Each week we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.

I'm Morgan Lee and I'm assistant editor here at Christianity today.

And today I'm joined by Mark and only Mark.

Aren't you lucky?

You don't have to share me with anyone else.

You listeners may be asking, well, we are having a books episode of Quick to Listen.

This was actually Mark's brainchild.

Yeah, I thought we should do books that we've read that gave us a lot to think about that can help us to quickly listen

better to all the world that's going on around us. I know you can almost like argue that books

are the ultimate form of listening because only one person is doing the talking. Exactly. And you

have to spend hours listening to that person to get through the book. Yeah. Exactly. All right. So Mark

and I each have three different books that we are going to be sharing with you guys

today and kind of discussing and going over some of the questions that we thought through

while we were reading the book.

We have not shared our list with each other.

So it will be a surprise on both sides.

And before we get into our books, as I know, you're all excited to hear them.

This podcast is made possible by subscribers of Christianity Today magazine.

Our current issue, which is the July-August issue, is about how robots are apparently taking our jobs, which is a fairly fascinating topic.

And I'm really glad that we have

this written because it's trying to kind of stem some of the anxiety that people may feel about

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