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Reflections on Fifteen Years under a Barbell (opens the original)
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Recent conversations with and have prompted me to write this article. Since I am an oldhead/unc or whatever now, I hope it will be of value to you young chuds. I hope you will excuse the vanity it takes to write something like this, and I’m far from the first person to do it, but for reasons I will get to later, it might be of more value to you than some of them.The Unsung Substack is a reader-supported publication.
A Summary of the Book of Mormon: The Book of Alma, the Son of Alma, pt 1 (opens the original)
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This is the ninth in a series of articles summarizing the Book of Mormon from my perspective as an Orthodox Christian layman. The others are here:The First Book of Nephi: His Reign and MinistryThe Second Book of NephiThe Book of Jacob, the Brother of Nephi<a href="h
An Open Letter to Derek Suszko (opens the original)
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Dear ,Hi, I’m Jason.You don’t know me, except maybe through my couple of notes about how I want to yeet you into the sun with a trebuchet:This was obviously hyperbolic, but I admit it was pretty aggressive. I also think my feelings of aggression, and those of other men like me, are fairly warranted. I don’t apologize for the aggression, but I will tone it down for this post.T
The Warriors Bibliography (opens the original)
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Since I did one of these for the last series I thought I’d do another one, in case anyone is interested in further reading. There are way less sources for this series than there were for the last one, and obviously it’s mostly based on Xenophon’s Anabasis, but there are still a few other ones.If the series interested you, you should definitely read the Anabasis for yourself. It is seriously one of the best ancient history reads you’ll find.You’ll notice that for all of the ancient sources, I’ve
The Warriors: The Complete Series (opens the original)
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For each podcast series I do, I’m going to start doing a post like this with links to every episode in the series. The Substack UI isn’t great for grouping series together and making them easy to find, so these posts will be your one-stop shop for each series. Bookmark this and you’ll have easy access to all the episodes.The Unsung Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="
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