Episode 151: Girl Talk
I’ve just written a new book. It is called PZ’s Panopticon: An Off-the-Wall Guide to World Religion, and will be published by Mockingbird, hopefully in the not-too-distant future.
“Girl Talk” is an explanation of the book’s central idea, and also an “off-the-wall” explanation of why the book doesn’t talk about certain issues that are important. Important in this world, that is. To a dying person, they are not important.
Religion, to be worth something, must have something, and something fairly good, to offer a dying person. And hey, who isn’t?
There’s no question that religion is designed to meet the quandaries of “Living in the Material World” (G. Harrison). But the Big Red One is death, and dying.
The cast is “Dedicated to the One I Love” (The Mamas and the Papas): Ray Ortlund.
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