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Since the Protestant Reformation and the beginning of the Enlightenment, the world, in the West at least, has become increasingly disenchanted. While this might be taken as evidence of a crisis of belief, Richard Beck argues it's actually a crisis of attention. God hasn't gone anywhere, but we've lost our capacity to see God. The rising tide of disenchantment has profoundly changed our religious imaginations and led to a loss of the holy expectation that we can be interrupted by the sacred and divine. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Join Noah Beck and Josh Richards as they breakdown their favorite movies and TV shows. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/therundown1/support

Two noted journalists take us into the "futures" of Elvis Presley and Judy Garland to paint a picture of their lives had they not died so young. These vividly imaginative "biographies" are thoughtful, honest, heartfelt... and entirely within the realm of possibility.

A groundbreaking history of how the decades-long War on Terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched—by an acclaimed n+1 writer.