Courtney Ellis—author, pastor, and podcaster—joins Mandy at the pub table to discuss all things feathered (including hope) and how God speaks to our hearts through the wonder and beauty of His creation. (Find Courtney's books and podcast: courtneybellis.com)

There’s an artist who does great work. And then we learn the artist did something terrible in their personal life. Can we enjoy the art on its own terms and sift out the artist’s mistakes? Or are the artist and the art so intertwined that we can’t separate them?

Brian, Sarah, Jeremiah, and Christina consider “maybe there’s a way to learn to be the kind of person who is sharpened, grown, and even set free by limits,” with Count Rostov from Amor Towle’s A Gentleman in Moscow as their guide.

Author Shemaiah Gonzales’s latest book is Undaunted Joy: The Revolutionary Act of Cultivating Delight. She joins the pub table to discuss the implications of telling stories that cultivate authentic joy.

Using Rebecca Romney’s book Jane Austen’s Bookshelf as a guide, Sarah, Matt, and Mandy discuss adding forgotten authors into the literary canon.

Matt invites Luke Moja—his friend and resident 90s sports expert—to the digital pub table to discuss the enduring myth-making and real-life Shakespearean drama that is the Dallas Cowboys.

What are the benefits (and drawbacks) of audiobooks? Of e-readers? Of old-fashioned paper books? The cohosts debate all this and more during this roundtable.

Ashlee Cowles discusses the ways she grounded her new novel in history, and how she was able to find hope—even in the doom of Troy.

Brian, Sarah, Matthew, and Christina ask, “What if the reason you feel too small, too broke, or too ordinary to be generous is actually a spiritual problem masquerading as humility?”

Brian and Sarah read a short poem to help us all enter out of Christmas and into the New Year.