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Hello, friends, and welcome back to Reading with Joy. This is my summer book club, and we are reading through Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, and we are on Chapter 7,

Chapter 7 of 9. For all of you who have been listening

along, I can hardly believe that after this week we only have two chapters left. And I just want

to say, congratulations to you for reading this far. This is a challenging book, one that

makes our brains grow and tries the limits of our vocabulary.

And I also want to say congratulations to me for having done a podcast every week while traveling.

This week I am for the first time in this podcast doing two of them the same place.

I am back in Colorado and I've just loved being able to be here

for a little while. And it's so wild that I'm already, I just spent about two hours tonight

making plain reservations, and it's hard to believe that so soon I'll be back in the UK.

But it's been so lovely to do this book club with you and to read

through this strange and wonderful text. I know that a lot of you have found it kind of

stretching and difficult, but I've realized as I've been reading back through it that I think

that one of my favorite things about this book is that rather than just giving you arguments for why someone

becomes Christian, because quite frankly, sometimes dear G.K.'s arguments are tumultuous and don't

totally follow a straight line. What he gives us are pictures, ways to understand the world,

things that kind of makes sense with our intuitions and

our kind of ways of interpreting and understanding the world. I loved this comment from Becky Avala,

I think is her name, or Avela. And she said, that Chesterden has painted images for me,

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