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Wellness Wednesday for July 19, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I’m interested in reading some high quality Christian apologetics. After having a bit of a crisis of faith with my vaguely eastern/agnostic spiritual tendencies I want to give the old J.C. another chance. Right now I’m on Mere Christianity by Lewis.

What are some other high quality, semi recent books for someone in my circumstances?

ETA: would anyone be interested in a book club or study group along these lines?

GK Chesterton.

Orthodoxy/The Everlasting Man are both chewable even if you've got no sympathy or openness to his arguments and consider him a memetic infohazard.