Novel Gazing

Was the novel an inevitable result of Protestantism? And has the decline of mainline Protestantism led to the decline of the novel? Onsi, Colin, and Rhys bat these questions around this week, jumping off of Joseph Bottum's recent book The Decline of the Novel (reviewed by Rhys in the forthcoming edition of Ad Fontes!)APOLOGY: the quality of some audio in this episode is below our usual standard, due to issues undetected during recording. We're sorry about this and will do our best to avoid it...