Episode 2.8 - Book Club: Transcendent Kingdom

This episode, the team digs into the listener's choice, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.  Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. To get connected with us, check us out on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lamppostinthewoods/ Thanks for listening to the Lamppost in the Woods - Season 2 Episode 8.