Are we losing the language we share to describe our faiths and religious traditions? Author Jonathan Merritt - a contributor to The Atlantic and religion and culture commentator, says he was struck by how few people “speak God” anymore - and how that can prevent people from expressing their faiths. It launched him on an unlikely journey to understand the very words he uses himself to understand and explore his faith and resulted in his new book.

Jonathan Merritt, The Atlantic contributor and author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch: Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing--and How We Can Revive Them