Augustine's Confessions with Joey Sherrard

Christians Reading Classics · May 28, 2026 · 45m · transcript

We sit with Augustine’s Confessions and feel how a 1,600-year-old prayer still names our restlessness with uncomfortable accuracy. We talk with pastor and author Joey Sherrard about reading Confessions as praise and truth-telling, and about remembering Augustine as a working pastor rather than a distant genius.

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