Mike and Jess discuss the neglected, yet brilliant, genre of the essay and why we should be reading more of them.

Books mentioned on this episode:

Mystery and Manners

God in the Dock

The Givenness of Things

What are we doing here?

In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G. K. Chesterton

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Signposts in a Strange Land

The Message in the Bottle

Essays of Four Decades

Essays of a Catholic

Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays

Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays