Hello, everyone. This is our final rebroadcast of a classic episode before we return in August with some new ones for you.

This episode is not like the other classics we've aired. It's more of a conversation episode.

I really, really love this one. It's one of the episodes we have gotten the most listener emails about.

And not just volume, like some of the most we have gotten the most listener emails about, and not just volume,

like some of the most deep, interesting reflections in our inbox from anything we publish,

which is crazy because we almost did not make this episode. I was worried the question was

honestly too big, but we put it to the test that we sent us to put our questions to,

which is just, is this a real, deeply held question?

And for me, it really was.

And I learned a lot from the person we asked it to, and from the stories that the question elicited.

After these ads, what's it like to believe in God?

Music What's it like to believe in God? What's it like I believed in God. The Christian big guy in the sky, God.

My family wasn't hardcore about it, but we went to church on Sundays. When we kids resisted,

we were bribed with donuts. I found Sunday school to be mainly confusing. I understood the

concepts of God and Jesus, but I remember having a lot of questions about the Holy Ghost, this character

whose backstory the teachers never seemed to want to fill in.

But I believed in God.

I prayed every night.

I prayed for a long list of everyone I hoped God would protect, really everyone I knew.

My family, my friends, relatives, the souls of pets who had died.

I couldn't fall asleep until I had prayed.

Always the same prayer, every night, until I turned 15.

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