Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all our bookclub meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. Our book this month was “Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism”by linguist Amanda Montell

Through juicy storytelling and cutting original research, Montell exposes the verbal elements that make a wide spectrum of communities “cultish,” revealing how they affect followers of groups as notorious as Heaven’s Gate, but also how they pervade our modern start-ups, Peloton leaderboards, and Instagram feeds.

Incisive and darkly funny, this enrapturing take on the curious social science of power and belief will make you hear the fanatical language of “cultish” everywhere.

We found this book fascinating and we know you will too. This The Good Book Club Meeting was originally held on March 9th, 2025

Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast, where we make all our book club meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. In this book club meeting we discussed the book, "The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think" by Robert Pantano. In this book, the author attempts to provide the value of motivation and personal development through unwavering philosophical honesty. Studying and pulling from ideas in Stoicism, Existentialism, Nihilism, Absurdism, Buddhism, Taoism, and more, he combines his own thoughts with concepts from philosophy to create accessible, thought-provoking, and beautiful takeaways that will change the way you think about yourself, existence, and how to appreciate the absurdity of it all. This The Good Book Club meeting was originally held on Sunday, February 9th, 2025.

A panel discussion with author Matt Harris

The Good Book Club meeting with author Matt Harris to discuss his groundbreaking book, “Second Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality.” This was recorded as a Mormonish episode.

Members of the book club have the chance to ask Matt anything and everything they’ve ever wanted to know about the lifting of the Priesthood ban, Matt’s research, and more!

This is such an important discussion and Matt is just fantastic! you won’t want to miss this episode!

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Welcome to The Good Book Club Podcast where we make all our bookclub meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. This month we read and discussed the book, "Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots" by Deborah Feldman. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Judaism, Deborah Feldman grew up under a code of relentlessly enforced customs governing everything from what she could wear and to whom she could speak to what she was allowed to read. Yet in spite of her repressive upbringing, Deborah grew into an independent-minded young woman who eventually reclaimed her life outside of her faith tradition and forged a new path for herself and her son. This The Good Book Club Meeting was orginally held on Sunday, December 8th, 2024.

In this Bookclub meeting, we discussed the book. “No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required” by Brittney Hartley. Britt was able to join us for most of the meeting and answer questions our Bookclub members had about the book. I know you’ll find this discussion absolutely fascinating and enlightening. This book club meeting was originally held on Sunday, December 10, 2024.

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all our bookclub meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. This month the book club discussed “Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End” by Bart Ehrman. You’ll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. But no matter what you think Revelation reveals—whether you read it as a literal description of what will soon come to pass, interpret it as a metaphorical expression of hope for those suffering now, or only recognize its highlights from pop culture—you’re almost certainly wrong. This The Good Book Club Meeting was originally held on October 13th 2024.

The book discussed at this meeting is “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life” by Mark Manson. In this entertaining and hard hitting self-help guide, the author cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. In other words, there are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter. We found this book to be really eye opening and we think you will too! This The Good Book Club Meeting was originally held on September 8th, 2024.

Welcome to The Good Book Club podcast where we make all our book club meetings available for viewers and listeners to enjoy. Today's episode features our discussion of the book, "Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia" by Michael Shermer. In this very interesting discussion, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth. The author Michael Shermer joins us for the second half of the presentation. This The Good Book Club Meeting was originally held on August 11th 2024.