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Not many people read Paradise Lost, even fewer who are not Paradise Lost scholars…Yet it is one of the greatest poems ever created, and it wasn’t meant to be encased in scholarly apparatus…subscribe to this weekly reading experience to find an ordinary reader’s way in to this magnificent human creation, which asks questions that come to us all at some point in life…

How does evil get into the world when we all start off as such lovely babies?

Why does free will so often mean going against your own best interest?

Why does the mind want to make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven?

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