📚 4 Books mentioned in "When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 515" of Freakonomics Radio

Let's do it right here on the show; we're gonna migrate you from book one to book two. There's a sequel; it's better than the first one.

During the discussion on Freakonomics Radio, Steve Katina, CEO of pray.com, humorously talks with host Stephen Dubner about converting him to Christianity, playfully referring to the Bible as 'book one' and Christianity as 'book two.'

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Just so you know, I actually started out in your camp. I grew up Catholic; my parents were both Jewish who, before they met each other, converted to Catholicism and then they met and fell in love with each other.

During the conversation, Steve Katina, CEO of pray.com, humorously engages with the podcast host Stephen Dubner about religious conversions, referring to the Bible as 'book one' and Christianity as 'book two'.

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Usually, what we'll do is we'll get a really cool celebrity to narrate a Bible in a year, so you can download pray and listen to James Earl Jones read you the Bible. I listened to some of that, and I have to say it's really good; it's pretty cool, right?

In a discussion on Freakonomics Radio, Steve Katina, the CEO of pray.com, talks about the app's feature that allows users to listen to celebrity narrations of the Bible, specifically highlighting the narration by James Earl Jones.

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One thing we see, and we see continuous growth really exacerbated from COVID, is the consumption of nightly prayers and bedtime Bible stories. Can you tell us what people are praying for?

In this episode, Steve Katina, CEO of pray.com, discusses how bedtime Bible stories have become popular content offerings on the app, especially in light of the ongoing increase in app usage during the pandemic.

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