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Jake Mentzel of the Bookening Podcast | FORMA
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Welcome to FORMA, a podcast featuring conversations with authors, teachers, creators, and community leaders who are carefully contemplating the nature and practice of classical education and the arts.
In this episode, David chats with Jake Mentzel, one of the co-hosts of the Bookening Podcast from Warhorn Media, where they discuss great books from a Christian perspective. Conversation touches on the role of books in Jake's childhood, the proper place of books in the rightly ordered spiritual life, podcasts from Christians about books, and more.
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This episode is brought to you by our friends at the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University.
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