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Blamow. Father Gregory, we are here today to talk about the Wing Feather Saga. We are.

Which is one of the best novels I've read in some time. Insert, however long you want to

insert. Sure. At your instigation. Okay. After you

wanted to interview Andrew Peterson, the author, on, what's that? Oh yeah, Godsplain. Nailed it.

So for listeners who haven't listened to that episode, I would recommend right out of the gate

that you do so, that you check out that interview

with Andrew Peterson. It's really great conversation. So we're going to talk about his particular

children's book, this marvelous series, The Winging Feather saga. But before we do, I wonder if you

might give us a little recap about just like why reading is important to you? Why do you read books and stuff?

That's a great question. Well, I think reading nonfiction, reading fiction, different enterprises

because they engage the human person in different ways. Obviously, you know, like we're made to

the image and likeness of God. We go to God by knowing and loving. So we have to be informed if we're going to be genuinely affectionate or if we're going to lay hold of and embrace the best things. So reading is part of that. It's like having a conversation with those who have gone before us or those who accompany us along the way,

as we profit from some of their more refined thoughts, or at least the thoughts which they have deemed worthy of putting down or setting down. So I think it's, yeah, there's a kind of nobility

to trying to converse about these matters. But especially with fiction, it's like, it's somewhat

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