Jake and Phil are joined by Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the forthcoming Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, to discuss Ross' essay "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" and Christian Wiman's 2008 essay in the American Scholar, "My Bright Abyss" 

The Manifesto: 
Ross Douthat, "Is the World Ready for a Religious Comeback" 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opinion/religion-atheism-books.html" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opinion/religion-atheism-books.html</a>

The Art: 
Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss 
<a href="https://theamericanscholar.org/my-bright-abyss/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://theamericanscholar.org/my-bright-abyss/</a>

Pre-order Ross' book 
<a href="https://www.zondervan.com/9780310367604/believe/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://www.zondervan.com/9780310367604/believe/</a>

Episode 74: Christmas Poetry and the Pogues

Your regular visit to the archives of vanity, where men and women who stopped making myths turned to issuing commandments. Your guides for this journey are the writers Phil Klay and Jacob Siegel, along with their trusty engineer, Jacqui Rigazio May you continue to be a person. Manifesto! Is now sponsored by Fairfield University, a Jesuit University in Fairfield Connecticut. Fairfield’s mission is to develop the creative intellectual potential of students and to foster in them ethical and religious values and a sense of social responsibility. Phil also teaches at Fairfield, in both their undergraduate English department and in their Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. We’re very pleased to be associated with Fairfield, and thank them for their sponsorship.