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Jan. 23, 2026: ‘On Fire for God’ with author Josiah Hesse

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Denver author Josiah Hesse at the Denver Press Club with CPR’s Ryan Warner. January 16, 2026.

You can't go home again, as the saying goes. But Denver author Josiah Hesse did. He returned to Mason City, Iowa — with a journalistic lens— to better understand his evangelical upbringing, and the social and economic forces that shaped it. We spoke in front of an audience at the Denver Press Club for the release of "On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right – a Personal History."