Host Joshua Turek is joined by guest Brian Recker, author of the new book "Hell Bent" (How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love). They discuss the books Brian read while researching his own, which details redefining his own spirituality and Christian beliefs. Discussing masculinity and softening the world, the two detail their own unique paths toward similar conclusions.

Books Talked About Include:

Debt by David Graeber

Hell Bent by Brian Recker

Adam’s Return by Richard Rohr

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn

the will to change bell hooks

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Political commentator Lily Eagla joins host Joshua Turek to discuss mutual aid, retraining the offline world back into your brain, and books that radicalized her.

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books

mutual aid by dean spade

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

The Year of Living Biblically

Our American Israel

100 years was on palestine by rashid kalidi

the autobiography of malcolm x

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Guest Larry Charles and host Joshua Turek talk SF and LA noir, science fiction grounded on Earth, Larry's new memoir Comedy Samurai . They talk personal growth, the transformative power of literature and how reading can serve as both a source of pleasure and a means of preserving sacred knowledge.

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Books Talked About Include:

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

City of Night by John Reshy

crime writers: edward bunker, jim thompson, david goodis, raymond chandler, dashiell hammet

The Woman Chase by Charles WIliford

The Ripley Books by Patricia Highsmith

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes

The Motel Life by Willy Vlauten

The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg

Service by John Tottenham

Ablutions by Patrick Dewitt

Days of the Locust by Nathaniel West

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