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Using texts from literature, philosophy, and theology,

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the question of human flourishing, the metaphysics of reality, and the nature of truth.

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basis until April 26, 2019. Hello and welcome back to Close Reads here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I'm joined by Heidi White and Tim McIntosh.

Heidi and Tim, welcome back. How's it going?

Hey, it's good. Thanks, David. It's going good, David.

So we are here to discuss the final chapters, the ending of John Le Carre's, the spy who came in from the cold.

And we will get to that in just a minute.

I do want to say, I want to mention something here.

It's a very important something.

It is maybe the most important thing I'm going to talk about on this podcast all day, nay, all month, perhaps even all year. There's nothing more

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