Should you manage to read a book a week over the course of your adult life, you will still have only read about 3,500 to 3,750 works in total—assuming, of course, that you began your reading journey at roughly age ten and continued diligently until around age 80, according to the math, or until your death—whichever should come first.

The Biblical Remedy For Anxiety / ‘The Odyssey’ and the End of the World / How Not to be a Functional Atheist on Your Vacation / In A World Of False Conversions / How Can I Know That I Am Really Saved? / Why Do We Confess If Our Sins Are Already Forgiven? / Re-Enchanting the Christian Mind

The early morning breeze whistled through the pines, making its way past any outerwear and into our bundled forms that were still masked by fog and shadow. With the warmth of the rising sun trailing close behind, the pre-dawn light began stretching its golden limbs across the forest which was now slowly rousing from its short summer slumber.