 When I read this book, I read my own story in so many ways. Dr. Paul Thigpen's life changed when he read The Confessions of St. Augustine. Augustine was instrumental to my conversion to become Catholic. And now Thigpen serves as a guide for the commentary, 20 podcast episodes diving deep into TAN's 2024 Book of the Year, a new translation of The Confessions by Anthony Essily. I mean, the sheer brilliance is astonishing. It's deeply moving because he's a sinner. So are we. He was not in control of the story of his life. Well, we're not either. This is the story authored by God, not by ourselves. An autobiographical story and yet so much more. The rare book where generation after generation finds inspiration, now more than 1,600 years after it was written. Here we are all these centuries later reading it and seeing ourselves. It's like a mirror sometimes. Seeing ourselves is Confessions.