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Send us Fan MailHappy Monday - or whenever day you happen to be listening to this. today we have a really unique book for you by Marilynne Robinson called Gilead This book is instructive in so many ways and is worth revisiting time and time again. We hope you were helped by it and our conversation around and about it

Send us Fan MailWelcome to another episode of your favorite podcast! Ok so that may be a bit much, but hey we are thrilled you are here just the same. Today we have a fantastic book written by a very young author who was still in high school when she wrote it, Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. To help a couple old guys and Steve think through this coming-of-age tale we have a very special guest, Lily Wellman. We hope you had a box of tissues next to you when you read this book and we hope our conversation was helpful. 

Send us Fan MailWell, we finally did it. We have taken our first foray into the wizarding world of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Good thing we pick books who’s authors and contents are never in any way controversial. We start out by discussing some of the controversy surrounding these books in the evangelical world and why we have decided to read them. We hope that you enjoy them as mach are we did/are. 

Send us Fan MailHappy Monday evening everybody (at least that is when I uploaded this, it may be Saturday for you for all I know) Anyway today we have a book that I would say was one of the more surprising books I have read recently. Surprising in the way that it was completely captivating in unexpected ways. We all hope that it was instructive and helpful and humbling and emotional and any other adjective that you would like to put with it. 

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to the Supplementalist. In this episode we are looking at the oldest book we have ever done. so old we aren’t exactly sure how old it is. this is a timeless classic of the english language, Beowulf. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did

Send us Fan MailHappy New Year everybody! So confession time, I was supposed to have this out a few weeks back but I am not doing so hot with my New Year resolution to get episodes edited and dropped in a timely manner, but hey at least I made it before calendar turned to February right?  Anyway we are back with an excellent book for the new year and that is Digital Liturgies by Samuel D. James. this is an excellent look at how our digital lives are shaping us and helps us to better evaluate our online habits. We hope this was a helpful book and discussion for you all. 

Send us Fan MailMerry Christmas you filthy animals. Hopefully you weren’t left home alone this Christmas but if you are, we are here to keep you company. As we remark in the episode, this is our third annual Christmas episode. We hope you enjoyed the story and our conversation about it. Have a very Merry Christmas 

Send us Fan MailThis was the first episode that we recorded in 3-4 months and boy did we have a fantastic book to get us back into recording; Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This Sci-fi book is just plain fun and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.  

Send us Fan MailI know its been a while but we are finally back. This episode was recorded several months ago but now we are back in the saddle and recording some new content for you. We hope that you had a great summer and read som fantastic books this year during our hiatus. If you have a book suggestion send it in, somehow, and if we read our mail we just might read it and discuss. Today we have Joseph Conrads book Heart of Darkness. This book is as chearful as it sounds. We do think it is worth the read in spite of some objectionable descriptions and ways of speech. Look for more exciting episodes coming soon! 

Send us Fan MailWell hi everybody, we are back again for part two of our trek through Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We hope that this book as been instructive and challenging and thought provoking for you all. 

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to the Supplementalist, we hope you are having a great summer. Today we have part one of a two part episode where we are looking at what is widely believed to be one of the greatest novels ever written, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Although long, this book is very much worth the time to read. Look for part 2 in the next couple weeks

Send us Fan MailWelcome back everybody! Today we have a very special episode as we as we have a special guest in studio, pastor and author Chris Cobb. it was a joy to sit down with Chris and chat through his book and other topics like writing and literature in the life of a pastor and more generally a Christian. 

Send us Fan MailAnd we are finally back! This is a short yet powerful read that we hope you enjoyed as much as we did. As promised here is the link for the book that we are looking at for our next, very special, episode with the author himselfhttps://a.co/d/4KI017c

Send us Fan MailWelcome to our humble little show. Glad you stopped by. In today’s episode we look at a work by Thomas Sowell called Conflict of Visions. This isn’t an easy read but it has proven to be a very important work by Dr Sowell that we believe can be very helpful. We hope that you were helped by the book and by our subsequent discussion.

Send us Fan MailWell hey everybody. We are finally back with a new episode. Today we are looking at Abraham Heschel’s book Sabbath. In this book he explores the idea of Sabbath from a hebraic perspective. We think this can be a helpful book as we think through this theme that we find from Genesis 1 all the way through the end of the Scriptures. 

Send us Fan MailWhats up everybody, happy weekend from the Supplementalists. We must have a thing for stories that don’t have a happy ending here at the Supplementalist. This week Paul Jamie and Steve are looking at a poignant and tragic story by John Steinbeck called The Pearl.  There is a lot to think about and wrestle with in this short novel and we hope it was thought provoking and our conversation helpful.  

Send us Fan MailWell hello everybody welcome back to the Supplementalist. We hope that you are all having a fantastic 2025 so far. In todays episode we are taking our first foray into the greatest of all English writers, the inestimable William Shakespeare. We are going to be looking at brief selection of his sonnets. Here is a list (not necessarily in the order we cover them)30, 73 (aging/ regret)91 (heartbreak)29 (jealousy)106 (time)27 (weary)18, 116 (love/ most popular)We hope that you took some time and read and/or listened to them, and that our conversation is helpful.

Send us Fan MailWelcome back dear listener. We are here again with a new book and a new episode. Our book for today is The Road, a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. This book explores the theme of fatherhood among others. We realize this is not an easy read at times but we believe it is worth it in the end.As mentioned the next episode we will be looking at some selected Sonnets from the one and only William Shakespeare. The Sonnets that we will be looking at are:30, 73 91 291062718116

Send us Fan MailHappy New Year! Well 16 days late. We take our time here at the Supplementalist, well our audio editing guy does - come on Steve! Today is a bonus episode to kick off the new year. We will get back to our regularly scheduled programing next week. This week we have a special episode were we are looking at an article from an organization called Public Discourse. This particular essay is from Joshua Hren with the title of "The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature” You can find the article here We hope this was a helpful article that that you benefited from our conversation about it

Send us Fan MailMerry Christmas from the Supplementalists. We pray that you have had a great Advent and Christmas season. Today we take a look at one of the most beloved children's books of the past 100 years, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. We hope that we enjoyed reading this book with your families.

Send us Fan MailHappy December everyone! its kinda crazy how quickly this year has gone by but here we are looking at another Christmas and New Year right around the corner. Today we are looking at a Jack London short story, To Build a Fire. This is a classic Jack London story of man vs nature with a dog in the mix. We hope that you were helped by it and provoked to thought and contemplation as he explores the themes of pride and foolhardiness.

Send us Fan MailHappy Thanksgiving! We hope this book was a cornucopia of reading delight. Seriously though, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did. At first blush it may seem like a zany, offbeat comedy and thats about it, but we think there is more going on under the surface. Hopefully our conversation is helpful in untangling - just a little bit - this nihilistic sci-fi. So enjoy some Turkey and Mashed Potatoes and wash it down with a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster and have a great Thanksgiving

Send us Fan MailWelcome to another episode of our humble little podcast. Today we dive into a book by Rod Dreher called the Benedict Option. This is Paul and Jamie's favorite book (ok not so much). We hope that you found the book thought provoking and our conversation helpful.

Send us Fan MailHappy Halloween! Or as us Protestants say "Happy Reformation Day.” Ok so basically no one says that.Today we have a ghost story for you… well sort of. The story in question is a play not a book by Thornton Wilder called Our Town. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and find our conversation helpful.

Send us Fan MailEver wondered about what Pastors are actually called to do? today we take a look with the help of Harold Senkbeil in his work The Care of Souls. We hope this book was both encouraging and challenging to you 

Send us Fan MailAnd we're back! After over a month hiatus we are finally back with a new episode and it is a good one. In this episode we are looking at Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. This is a master piece of storytelling and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did 

Send us Fan MailGlad you're back! Today we are going to cover Gene Edwards rumination about leadership in his book A Tale of Three Kings. In this he works through ideas of leadership using Saul, David, and Absalom as the case studies.We hope that you were helped and encouraged by this book.

Send us Fan Mail“A patchwork memory is the shame of a refugee” Thanks for stopping by! Today we explore Daniel Nayeri’s outstanding and beautifully written book Everything Sad is Untrue. We trust that you enjoyed this book as much as we did!  

Send us Fan MailHello again! So somehow I mixed up my episodes and released the wrong one a few episodes back and didn’t realize it until recently. So to rectify that we are dropping the missing episode now! We hope you enjoyed this fascinating book as much as we did!

Send us Fan MailWelcome back! in this episode we take our first dive into J. R. R. Tolkien with his wonderful, and whimsical, and nothing like the movies (thank goodness) book The Hobbit. As always we hope you enjoyed the book and found our ramblings about it helpful. 

Send us Fan MailToday instead of a book we read and discuss selected works from Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Poems that we read and discuss are:As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)Felix Randal (pg 150) Binsey Poplars (pg 142) God's Grandeur (pg 128)Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)The Windhover (pg 132)Pied Beauty (pg 132)We hope you were edified and encouraged in adding poetry to your reading list

Send us Fan MailAnd we’re back for Episode 15! This time we talk about a book about how to read books. The book is called Reading Between the Lines by Gene Edward Veith. We hope that this book and episode are helpful for you!As for our next book the poems that we will be reading and discussing are (page numbers are from the Oxford World Classics Gerard Manley Hopkins Major Works):As Kingfishers Catch Fire (pg 129)Felix Randal (pg 150) Binsey Poplars (pg 142) God's Grandeur (pg 128)Patience, Hard Thing (pg 170)The Windhover (pg 132)Pied Beauty (pg 132)https://a.co/d/0lsJB4h

Send us Fan MailWelcome to Episode 14 everyone! In this episode we take a look at Henri Nouwen’s work Return of the Prodigal Son. In this book Henri Nouwen explores the Prodigal Son by way of Rembrandt’s painting by the same name. We hope you enjoy the episode 

Send us Fan MailAnd we are back. On this Episode we take a look at Geoffrey Chang’s recent book Spurgeon the Pastor where he explores the incredible pastoral ministry of the “Prince of Preachers” Charles Haddon Spurgeon. There is much we can learn from both Spurgeon and the members of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.  

Send us Fan MailAnd we’re back! Sorry that we missed dropping an episode last week as would be our normal pattern. We are back this week with a great book and our first foray into the great American author Earnest Hemingway. In this episode we look at one of his most beloved works, The Old Man and the Sea. 

Send us Fan MailWelcome back! On this episode we take a look at our first Dietrich Bonhoeffer work as we explore his fantastic little book Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible. We hope you were edified in reading it and encouraged by our conversation through it.  

Send us Fan MailWelcome back! In this episode we take our first foray into Puritan works as we tackle Thomas Goodwin’s excellent treatise The Heart of Christ. We hope that this book was salve for your soul.  

Send us Fan MailToday we get a little ghoulish as we step into Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein world. This book is not what you may expect and I hope you enjoyed it and our conversation about it.

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to the Supplementalist! in this episode we jump into a children's book, The Clown of God. We hope that you enjoyed this simple little book and our conversation around it.

Send us Fan MailWelcome to Episode 7 of the Supplementalist Podcast. Today we tackle our first book from CS Lewis as we look at The Great Divorce. we hope you enjoyed reading this book as much as we did and that our conversation is helpful. If you like the podcast please Rate and Subscribevisit our churches websites:https://piquabaptist.org/https://www.whoishouseontherock.com/

Send us Fan MailWe’re back! It's been a while since uploading a new Episode. we are finally back in the saddle after the Holidays with recording and releasing new episodes of the podcast, and for up for the year 2024 is Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This is a sobering and introspective look at social expectations and death. If you enjoy the episodes like and subscribe.Check out the websites for our churcheshttps://piquabaptist.org/https://www.whoishouseontherock.com/

Send us Fan MailIn this Episode we finish our walk through Williams Faulkners Absalom, Absolam.We hope these two episodes have been helpful in understanding this work.If you like the episodes please leave a review and rate and subscribe

Send us Fan MailMerry Christmas and Bah humbug. On this special bonus Christmas Episode Jamie Paul and Steve take a look at one of the classic Christmas works A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.  Grab a cup of Hot Cocoa or eggnog and sit by the fire while we explore this Christmas ghost story. If you like the Episode please leave a review and like and subscribe.

Send us Fan MailOn this weeks episode Jamie, Paul, and Steve attempt to tackle William Faulkner's intricate, tedious, objectionable, controversial, but ultimately worthwhile novel, Absalom, Absalom. This is part one of our journey through this fascinating great American work.Plan to join us next time as we continue our walk through this bookIf you enjoy the episodes please like and subscribe and leave us a review

Send us Fan MailHappy Thanksgiving 2023!This week we take a break from fiction to tackle our first non-fiction book, Delighting in the Trinity, By Dr Michael Reeves. We pray this book was instructive and devotional for you.If you appreciate the show please Rate and Subscribe follow this link for this weeks book: https://a.co/d/bmxhOLKFollow this link to purchase the book for the next two episodes, Absalom, Absalom! https://a.co/d/6HX5nKr

Send us Fan MailIn this episode we get a little gothic as we dive into Robert Louis Stevenson's intriguing, profound and, dare we say oft misrepresented, novella: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If you enjoy these episodes please like, subscribe and leave us a five star rating

Send us Fan MailToday we discuss Ray Bradbury’s fantastic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 

Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Supplementalist Podcast. In this introductory episode Jamie, Paul and Steve introduce themselves and talk about the importance and value of reading broadly for the Christian.If you enjoy please subscribe