The Year of Living Biblically

Is that really how God wants us to think about His Word? That's what we're talking about today on the podcast, so let's jump right in.

Several years ago, I picked up a book in Barnes & Noble called The Year of Living Biblically.

It's not a Christian book.

In fact, the author is agnostic who says, and I quote, I am officially Jewish, but I'm Jewish in the same way that Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

your little bubble because you have your electronic bubble that you're taking with you.

My sister and I would be in the back of the car reading books and talking and doing the thing.

Nowadays, I can see families doing the same thing with mom or dad, whoever's driving, and the two kids in the back on their phones.

Yep.

So it's his, his sort of his discourse on the philosophy of the mind.

immateriality the human intellect and it's pertinent book because it also deals with things like AI and similar from Aristotelian to mystic

and I read one of his books I found it a little bit deep for me just

well some people would find that kind of dry I'm fascinated by it I find it like really compelling so I'll be reading that and really enjoying it and vacations good because it's the kind of book where you have to wrestle with the concept sometimes

That's where wisdom sits.

Hey everybody, this is Neil Pastrycha, and welcome or welcome back to Three Books, the only podcast in the world buying for book lovers, writers, makers, sellers, and librarians.

Did you know the number one driver of human happiness is our social relationships, the strength of our connections with friends, families, even strangers? And yet these days, we're more lonely than ever before, right? We're all watching our own screens, listening to our own music.

Nobody's talking to each other on the trains anymore.

But that's why I'm super excited to introduce you, or maybe reintroduce you if you already know him, to my guest on this chapter, the one and only Professor Nick Epley, E-P-L-E-Y, who teaches behavioral science at University of Chicago's prominent Booth School of Business.

He even teaches a course called Designing a Good Life, which is pretty impressive.

I love Nick's new book, which is called A Little More Social.

How small choices create unexpected happiness, health, and connection.

Well, I was going to say, there was a better attempt at this, and I can offhandedly sort of recommend A.J. Jacobs' book.

I think it came out in 2007, The Year of Living Biblically.

I don't know if you ever run across this.

Do you remember that? So not a religious believer, but he's like, I'm going to live out the Bible literally.