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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back. We here at the Supplementalist like to get creepy at times and what better way to do that than to explore the wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. We look at five of the most famous stories today - Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel and Gretel. These aren’t the animated versions that we grew up with. We hope you enjoyed...

Send us Fan Mail Well we finally did it. We finally are getting to the quintessential Christian book for the past 400 years, John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress. In a twist of irony we recorded this several months ago and somehow it was missed in the release schedule.  There is a reason that this book has stood the test of time, and why its imagery is so ingrained in western culture, not just the chur...

Send us Fan Mail All podcasts are equal but some are more equal than others. What better way to go into a long weekend than with another episode of the most equal of all the podcasts, the Supplementalist Podcast? Well your in luck because here we are again and this time we are coming at you with George Orwell's classic Animal Farm. Is it Dystopian? Is it a Fairy Tale? Is it an alegory? is it...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 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 Mail Well its that time again, time for a new episode of the Supplementalist Podcast Today we have a book that I think every christian should take the time to read and that is The Whole Christ by Sinclair Ferguson. This book was paradigmatic for me when I read it 8-9 years ago and we hope that it is similarly impactful for you.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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 We...

Send us Fan Mail Well, 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 d...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 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...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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 Mail Happy 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....

Send us Fan Mail Merry 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 Mail This 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 Mail I 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 h...

Send us Fan Mail Well 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 Mail Welcome 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 Mail Welcome 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 Mail And 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 himself https://a.co/d/4KI017c

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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 Mail Well 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 Mail Whats 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 conver...

Send us Fan Mail Well 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/ regr...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome 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 sel...

Send us Fan Mail Happy 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 essa...

Send us Fan Mail Merry 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 Mail Happy 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 h...