Episode 151 - Girl Talk

I've just written a book. It is called "PZ's Panopticon: An Off-the-Wall Guide to World Religiion". It's not about gender differences nor does it concern ideology. It looks at the religions of the world in terms of one question: What does this or that religion have to offer a dying person? My book concerns religion for a person in extremis. Dying seems to "concentrate the mind wonderfully" (Samuel Johnson). I think it serves a most concentrating purpose in helping a person sift through the wisdom of religion. Oh, and by religion, I also mean religions that are not called religions, such as celebrity, sex, things, one's children, one's life-partner, one's ideology, and the power that you have and exercise in your life. Power is a big religion. Religion covers almost anything that habitually or functionally is worshipped. This podcast is dedicated to Ray Ortlund.