The day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Kansas City Star columnist Bill Tammeus was assigned to write the lead commentary for a special edition of the paper to be published that afternoon. Partway through that task, he learned that his nephew was a passenger on the first plane to smash into the World Trade Center. Now, almost 20 years later, Bill recounts in his new book the multiple traumas his extended family experienced because of that. Love, Loss and Endurance: A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety, to be published Jan. 19 (but available for pre-order now on Amazon), also explores why some people get sucked into monochromatic religious thinking that can lead to violence and what we can do to stand against such extremism. Mike and Bill talk about all that and more in this podcast.