The Readirect Podcast
The Readirect Podcast
Emily Rojas & Abigail Freshley
Reading Rewind: Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Jan 27, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Heavy content warning for this episode, please listen with care! While we do not go into gratuitous detail in our recap, this book does contain references to many serious subjects. Proceed with caution & definitely don't listen to this episode around children! Today we're revisiting Redeeming Love and...we did not like what we read! Skip to the recent reads: To hear our letters to our future husbands following our fraught Redeeming Love discussion, skip to