In which Sarah, RJ, and Dave talk spite, ubiquitous burnout, chaplaincy booms, and our conflicted relationship with newness. Also, Dave marvels at how refreshed the cicadas are looking.

Click here to read Charlie Tyson's review in The Atlantic on Why Are We So Spiteful?
Click here to watch Todd Brewer's talk on Anger ("If Jesus Had a Twitter Account") from our Tyler Conference.
Click here to read Jill Lepore's essay on Burnout in The New Yorker
Click here to read Katie Heaney's piece on The Clock-Out Cure in The Cut
Click here to read Vice's article on Why Chaplains Are in High Demand in an Increasingly Secular America
Click here to read Sam Bush's post on Facing the Strange
Click here to read Dave's post on Becoming a Cliché

Recommendations:

Click here to order Spencer Reece's All the Beauty Still Left
Click here to listen to Natalie Bergman's new album Mercy
Click here to read the profile of Sinead O'Connor in the NY Times

Tom Brady - NFC South Champions, and New Year's Resolutions