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Sep 2023

43m 12s

Ignatian Bookends

About this episode

We’re back for a new season of chatting over drinks! Writers Tsh Oxenreider and Seth Haines discuss the old idea of Ignatian examen and how it applies to us moderns. Also, why morning and evening bookends are a great idea.

* Hosts: authors Seth Haines and Tsh Oxenreider

* Buy a round of drinks

* Recommended reads

* Tsh’s latest: First Light & Eventide

* Seth’s upcoming: The Deep-Down Things

* How to pray the examen

* Scientifically proven benefits of gratitude

* “The Want of Peace” by Wendell Berry

* Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles

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