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Life and Books and Everything is a podcast hosted by Kevin DeYoung where discussions center on, well, life and books and everything. As a church pastor and theology professor, Kevin loves to talk about faith, theology, history, current events, and the occasional hot topic. We hope you will learn something, laugh a little, and get some good book recommendations along the way.

With action packed storytelling, we will take you on adventures that no Hollywood producer could dare dream. From great museums, mansions and West Texas ranches, to stinking inner city dumpsters and hobo jungles. We’ll be riding in limos, classic pickups, some fine quarter horses, and a bull named tornado. So buckle up your seat belt, and strap on your saddle tight and climb on for the ride of your life.

We’re taking our time as we close read and discuss bite-size portions of the literary canon’s largest books.

Tales from a lockdown long ago.

In 1348 a group of ten friends leave plague-struck Florence for the countryside and, to keep their spirits up, they tell each other stories. The idea for the Decameron, one of Europe's great literary works, is born.

We've put together 10 of our favourite stories from Giovanni Boccaccio's epic to share with you in lockdown, nearly 700 years later.

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5-15 minute stories, selected from many cultures and countries across time, narrated professionally and paired with original music intended to capture the time period. Some episodes feature discussions, some do not. Show up expecting to hear a story, and you won't be disappointed.

Linger in the space between a poem being spoken and being heard.

Poetry Centered features curated selections from Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s online audiovisual archive of more than 1,000 recordings of poets reading their work during visits to the Center between 1963 and today. In each episode, a guest poet introduces three poems from Voca, sharing their insights about the remarkable performances recorded in our archive. Each episode concludes with the guest poet reading a poem of their own.