316: Just Add Jesuits!

Published: Sept. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.

After 20 years, we revisit Mary Doria Russell\u2019s first-contact classic \u201cThe Sparrow.\u201d It\u2019s a story about aliens, spirituality, and why God allows terrible things to happen to good people. And boy, do terrible things happen to people in this book. (Content advisory: One of those things is sexual assault of humans by aliens.)