The Good Book Club Podcast

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. In this episode, we discuss the book “Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan (Author), and Cacilda Jetha . “Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric or...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast, where all our bookclub meetings and bonus events are made available for listeners to enjoy. On this episode we discuss "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture" by Dr. Darrel Ray. "The God Virus" uses the analogy of religion as a virus to explain the psychology behind it. Dr. Darrel Ray, uses his background in psychology and his knowledge of...

Welcome to the Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. This book club episode is a discussion of Johnathon Haight's "The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom." "The Happiness Hypothesis" is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by sev...

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electroma...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our bookclub meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. On this episode we feature our regular The Good Book Club meeting and discussion of Carl Sagan's wonderful book, "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark."  How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we d...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. Today’s book club meeting featured a variety of books written on the topic of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Prior to our bookclub meeting, a group of bookclub members spent the weekend at the actual site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and learned a lot about the even...

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we all our Bookclub meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. This episode features our The Good Book Club discussion of “The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention” by Guy Duetscher. This groundbreaking book looks at the origin of language in a new and innovative way. Perhaps the most remarkable con...

On this bonus episode of The Good Book Club, we collaborate with Mormon Book Reviews to bring you a discussion with author Chris Thomas about his wonderful book, "Unexpected: The Backstory of Finding Elizabeth Smart and Growing Up in the Culture of an American Religion." Chris was thrust into the spotlight as the family media spokesman for the Smart family during their 91/2 month ordeal as they se...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our episodes and bonus events availalble for listeners to enjoy. This podcast is our The Good Book Club discussion of The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore, with the discussion led by book club member, Cindy. In this riveting true story, civil w...

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. In this discussion we dive into Brene Brown’s “Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone.” Brene tells us that “True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” And in her book we discuss...

Welcome to the Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club discussions and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. Today's episode features our book club discussion of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford. Some think of Genghis Khan as a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback, leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club meetings and Bonus Events available for listeners to enjoy. In this Bonus Event episode we have a fascinating discussion with the wonderful, multiple award winning author, Lorelei Kay about her book, “From Mormon to Mermaid: One Woman’s Voyage from Oppression to Freedom!” Lorelei shares stories from her life, discusses her faith...

This podcast features our regular book club meeting discussion of “Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control” by Luna Corbden. The author joined us for this meeting and we were absolutely thrilled to have Luna with us. "Recovering Agency" presents years of research into social psychology and the science of cult dynamics, to describe 31 mind control techniques, alongside examp...

Welcome to the Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. This episode features a Lazy Learner event with Dr. John Knight Lundwall of the Utah Cultural Astronomy Project. His presentation  was titled “Cultural Astronomy of the Ancient Fremont” and we delved into the mysterious rock art of the Fremont people and it’s relat...

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast, where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. This bonus event is a presentation and Q & A with Mountain Meadows Massacre archeologist, Everett Bassett. The book club read “Blood of the Prophets” by Will Bagley, a book we highly recommend, and visited the site of this tragic event in early Mormon history. At t...

This episode features our regular book club meeting discussion of Steven Pinker's wonderful book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. In Enlightenment Now psychologist Steven Pinker dispels the thought that the world is only getting worse and argues that things are actually getting better by every measure. Pinker provides statistics on such factors as health, we...

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast, where we make all our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. In this special bonus event, we are joined by the wonderful Dr. Randy Bell to discuss his new book, Post Traumatic Thriving: The Art, Science & Stories of Resilience. Dr. Bell is a sociologist and economist who specializes in disaster recovery projects and has cons...

Todays the Good Book Club discussion features Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. This was the second book the Good Book Club read and the most frequently recommended by Good Book Club members. This ground breaking book is that the context and narrative of the creation and evolution of humanity from the beginning. If you want to begin to understand who we are and how we got...

This special episode features a Question and Answer from a film screening sponsored by The Good Book Club in Salt Lake City, Utah on February 13, 2023. The film is titled The Return of Elder Pingree: Memoir of a Departed Mormon by Emmy award winning documentary film maker Geoff Pingree. The film follows Geoff as he returns to his mission field in Guatemala decades later to reconnect with the peopl...

This podcast features our The Good Book Club discussion of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. Doctor Van Der Kolk is a leading expert on trauma and in his book The Body Keeps the Score he uses recent scientific advancements to show how trauma literally reshapes our body and brain which can often keep us from experiencing pleasure, e...

This podcast features our The Good Book Club meeting and discussion of Who Wrote the Bible by Richard Friedman. This was one of The Good Book Clubs very first discussions and what a book to begin with! Richard Friedman's book is a fascinating, intellectual yet highly readable analysis and investigation into the authorship of the Old Testament. It delves deeply into the history of the Bible in an e...

This podcast features our The Good Book Club Lazy Learner Series where we discuss Tattoos for Dummy's; Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask About Getting a Tattoo! We really learned a lot from the amazingly talented tattoo artist Robin McQueen and encourage you all to check out her work @marrowinthebones on Instagram. This book club meeting was originally held on January 21, 2...

A presentation on the practice of meditation by Nathan Smith from Mind Makes This World Podcast. Nathan gives us an insightful overview of the concept of meditation and different meditation methods. He also leads us through a brief meditation exercise. Whether meditation is already a part of your life or you've always wanted to learn more, you'll find something valuable in this presentation. This...

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all of our book club meetings and bonus events available for listeners to enjoy. This podcast will feature our The Good Book Club bonus event, a discussion with Nan Osborne of the Hulu docuseries "Mormon No More". Nan shares more of her story, her faith journey, gives us insight into hre family and talks about her experieince on the program. She...

In this episode The Good Book Club discusses Neil DeGrasse Tyson's book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. The Universe is mysterious and expansive and that is what makes it so fascinating. The book this month, delves into black holes, dark energy, how the Universe was formed, colliding galaxies, and more. We really enjoyed reading and discussing this book and learned so much that we didn't under...