The Literary Baptists

Maddie, Nick, and Lee return (sans Zach) to discuss good quotes, current reading, AI demon portals, and sundry other topics on the annual catch-up episode.

In this time of great uncertainty, we knew it was time for the Literary Baptists to return and deliver some normalcy. Enjoy a wide-ranging conversation between the entire fellowship concerning recent reading progress, whether audiobooks count as reading, and the newish genre that has captivated Grandpa Zach's attention.  https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nak...

The Fellowship is together again for another discussion of the Silmarillion. Did Feanor do nothing wrong? Is Ungoliant more powerful than Morgoth? How wonderful is emo music? We tackle all these important questions in this action-packed episode. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic....

Maddie, Nick and Lee discuss the Hobbit-ness of Jimmy Carter, the Nephilimity of Joe Biden, The "song that doesn't end," the television show Wishbone, the English language's superiority, and why it is that Christian artists are most likely to apostatize. Go to www.fundthenations.com/adoption-families/settle to help support Maddie's family's adoption mission! https://linktr....

Maddie, Nick, and Lee discuss their recent reading, both within and without the reading challenge. John Gill works: https://www.particularbaptistbooks.com/product-page/works-of-john-gill-vol-2 Frankenstein: https://a.co/d/0xBGATO On God and Christ: https://a.co/d/czJQQdt https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promo...

The Fellowship discusses the tragedy of the Darkening of Valinor, plus digging into the following topics: Song lyrics Holidays The Significance of the Passage of Time https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/lice...

The pod takes a big stride in this episode: talking about the chapter that sets the rest of the book in motion. Did Feanor do nothing wrong? Will Andy Serkis accept the Fellowship's open invitation to come on the show? Why were the Manichaeans so interested in farts? These questions, and many more, will be pondered on this illustrious episode. You've gotta read The Reformation as Renewal ....

The Fellowship returns to discuss the next chapter of The Silmarillion, where one bad boy is born and another bad boy is let out of lockup. Cream cheese, dying in Valinor, and prune juice are all discussed over the course of this epic episode. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.co...

The fellowship is no longer sundered! Our 4 cohosts are back to discuss the next chapter of the Silmarillion...which includes a island used as a ferry, 3D printed fish, and further consideration on whether it was good for the Elves to go to Valinor. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.cho...

Zach and Lee (sans Maddie) give Nick a proper hearing out of his modest proposal for the benefit of the literary canon. He had 8 main points as of this moment. What do you think? 1. Seriousness is not a virtue. Humor can and should be considered among the heights of literature. We recognize the genius of Aristophanes or Swift, but pure humor is rarely given a high place in the modern literary cano...

Maddie, Nick, and Lee discuss terrible book design (skip to 32:19 if you'd rather not listen to them talk about book covers you can't see, or watch on YouTube ). Then they finally move to the next chapter of the Silmarillion "Of Thingol and Melian" and consider some of the metaphysical and *perhaps* incarnational elements of this short but provocative chapter. Oh and there are cere...

Maddie, Nick, and Lee discuss their current reading and then the egregious articles out of the UK that claim readers of The Professor and others radicalize people. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists LINKS Taliesin (or Tailspin as Lee likes to say) Quo Vadis Features of Welsh Poetry To the Judicious and Impartial Reader: Baptist Symbolics Volume 2 MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https...

The Fellowship is back to finis this chapter of the Silmarillion. They muse on orcs, catechism, and the music being in Zach. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

DISCLAIMER: THE LITERARY BAPTISTS DO NOT ENDORSE STARING INTO THE SUN The Pendragon Cycle The Red House Mystery Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.or...

Zach, Maddie, and Lee finish their conversation about the Aule and Yavanna chapter while Nick and his family continued defending their home from the forces of Angband. Check out the 2023 Reading Challenge https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC B...

The Fellowship moves forward without Nick in this first half of their latest conversation in the Silmarillion. Boy, it was quite a time. https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The group takes a break from the Silmarillion to discuss what they read in 2022 and introduce the 2023 Literary Baptists Reading Challenge! Check the links below for some of the books they mention in this two-part episode. You can also watch the combined episode on our Youtube! Book links: "On The Incarnation" by Athanasius "The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis" https://www.ccel.org/cce...

The group takes a break from the Silmarillion to discuss what they read in 2022 and introduce the 2023 Literary Baptists Reading Challenge! Check the links below for some of the books they mention in this two-part episode. You can also watch the combined episode on our Youtube! Book links: "On The Incarnation" by Athanasius "The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis" https://www.ccel.org/cce...

The group completes their discussion of the charter "Of the Beginning of Days." Enjoy! https://linktr.ee/theliterarybaptists MUSIC Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Fellowship is back to discuss The Beginning of Days chapter of The Silmarillion, involving the construction and destruction of the Two Lamps, the creation of trees, and stumbling through the significance of the passage of Tree Time. Get The Nature of Middle-earth here . Pardon Zach's audio issues! The Uruk-Hai were sieging his Internet Service Provider during the recording. The conversatio...

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The Baptist Fellowship has traveled into the next chapter...the Valaquenta. The conversation was so prodigious that it will take two episodes to complete the chapter! Be sure to subscribe, like, and follow us on social media! Facebook Twitter Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0...

Thank you for joining us for the premiere of The Literary Baptists as we begin our chapter-by-chapter discussion of Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion.” If you'd like to follow along, we recommend this affordable paperback edition . Our theme music is: Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC...

Welcome to the Literary Baptists! We're excited to read some great books together and think of them from a confessional baptist perspective. Join us in our first season as we discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion," the book that provides ages of history and backstory that his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudio...