Revenge of the poetry

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Revenge of the poetry

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Jul 17, 2019

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Support us here! Brandon and Nathan hammer home their recent forays into poetry by reading and examining three poems together: The Wild Swans at Coole, The Art of Losing, and Digging. Next week Jake will be back and we'll start on Narnia!

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Jul 17, 2019

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3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.

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Revenge of the poetry

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