Well, we finally did it. We have taken our first foray into the wizarding world of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Good thing we pick books who’s authors and contents are never in any way controversial. We start out by discussing some of the cont...

Happy Monday evening everybody (at least that is when I uploaded this, it may be Saturday for you for all I know) Anyway today we have a book that I would say was one of the more surprising books I have read recently. Surprising in the way that...

Welcome back to the Supplementalist. In this episode we are looking at the oldest book we have ever done. so old we aren’t exactly sure how old it is. this is a timeless classic of the english language, Beowulf. We hope you enjoyed it as much a...

Happy New Year everybody! So confession time, I was supposed to have this out a few weeks back but I am not doing so hot with my New Year resolution to get episodes edited and dropped in a timely manner, but hey at least I made it before calend...

Merry Christmas you filthy animals. Hopefully you weren’t left home alone this Christmas but if you are, we are here to keep you company. As we remark in the episode, this is our third annual Christmas episode. We hope you enjoyed the story and...

This was the first episode that we recorded in 3-4 months and boy did we have a fantastic book to get us back into recording; Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This Sci-fi book is just plain fun and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did. ...

I know its been a while but we are finally back. This episode was recorded several months ago but now we are back in the saddle and recording some new content for you. We hope that you had a great summer and read som fantastic books this year d...

Well hi everybody, we are back again for part two of our trek through Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We hope that this book as been instructive and challenging and thought provoking for you all. 

Welcome back to the Supplementalist, we hope you are having a great summer. Today we have part one of a two part episode where we are looking at what is widely believed to be one of the greatest novels ever written, Crime and Punishment by Fyod...

Welcome back everybody! Today we have a very special episode as we as we have a special guest in studio, pastor and author Chris Cobb. it was a joy to sit down with Chris and chat through his book and other topics like writing and literature in...

And we are finally back! This is a short yet powerful read that we hope you enjoyed as much as we did. As promised here is the link for the book that we are looking at for our next, very special, episode with the author himself<...

Welcome to our humble little show. Glad you stopped by. In today’s episode we look at a work by Thomas Sowell called Conflict of Visions. This isn’t an easy read but it has proven to be a very important work by Dr Sowell that we believe can be ...

Well hey everybody. We are finally back with a new episode. Today we are looking at Abraham Heschel’s book Sabbath. In this book he explores the idea of Sabbath from a hebraic perspective. We think this can be a helpful book as we think through...

Whats up everybody, happy weekend from the Supplementalists. We must have a thing for stories that don’t have a happy ending here at the Supplementalist. This week Paul Jamie and Steve are looking at a poignant and tragic story by John Steinbec...

Well hello everybody welcome back to the Supplementalist. We hope that you are all having a fantastic 2025 so far. In todays episode we are taking our first foray into the greatest of all English writers, the inestimable William Shakespeare. We...

Welcome back dear listener. We are here again with a new book and a new episode. Our book for today is The Road, a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. This book explores the theme of fatherhood among others. We reali...

Happy New Year! Well 16 days late. We take our time here at the Supplementalist, well our audio editing guy does - come on Steve! Today is a bonus episode to kick off the new year. We will get back to our regularly scheduled programing next wee...

Merry Christmas from the Supplementalists. We pray that you have had a great Advent and Christmas season. Today we take a look at one of the most beloved children's books of the past 100 years, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis. W...

Happy December everyone! its kinda crazy how quickly this year has gone by but here we are looking at another Christmas and New Year right around the corner. Today we are looking at a Jack London short story, To Build a Fire. This is a classic ...

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope this book was a cornucopia of reading delight. Seriously though, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did. At first blush it may seem like a zany, offbeat comedy and thats about it, but we think there is more go...

Welcome to another episode of our humble little podcast. Today we dive into a book by Rod Dreher called the Benedict Option. This is Paul and Jamie's favorite book (ok not so much). We hope that you found the book thought provoking and our conv...

Happy Halloween! Or as us Protestants say "Happy Reformation Day.” Ok so basically no one says that.Today we have a ghost story for you… well sort of. The story in question is a play not a book by Thornton Wilder called Our Town. We hope yo...

Ever wondered about what Pastors are actually called to do? today we take a look with the help of Harold Senkbeil in his work The Care of Souls. We hope this book was both encouraging and challenging to you 

And we're back! After over a month hiatus we are finally back with a new episode and it is a good one. In this episode we are looking at Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. This is a master piece of storytelling and we hope you enjoyed it...

Glad you're back! Today we are going to cover Gene Edwards rumination about leadership in his book A Tale of Three Kings. In this he works through ideas of leadership using Saul, David, and Absalom as the case studies.We hope that you w...