End of Days or The God Delusion?

It's 1:43 PM Eastern on Thursday as I begin writing this update on my Religious Reading program. I've just finished reading Torah Portion 45 in Depths of the Torah by D.T. Lancaster at First Fruits of Zion. We're in Deuteronomy now, and I am thinking about what I will read after I have completed the 54 portions of Depths of the Torah. It's been quite a journey so far. I missed two weeks of reading during Operation Rising Lion because I was completely absorbed by news related to the war. Otherwise, I have followed along with every weekly reading on the appropriate Sabbath according to the rabbinic calendar. What will I do at the end of the series? There are three options that I would like to begin exploring in this post.

But first, let me sketch out my plan for the rest of my reading in Depths of the Torah: 

• Week 33: Torah Portion 46 & Commentary
• Week 34: Torah Portion 47 & Commentary
• Week 35: Torah Portion 48 & Commentary
• Week 36: Torah Portion 49 & Commentary
• Week 37: Torah Portion 50 & Commentary
• Week 38: Torah Portion 51 & Commentary
• Week 39: Torah Portion 52 & Commentary
• Week 40: Torah Portion 53 & Commentary
• Week 41: Sukkot?
• Week 42: Torah Portion 54 & Commentary

Okay, this schedule will take me into October 2025. At that point, my first option is to continue study with D.T. Lancaster and First Fruits of Zion through another 54-week cycle with Torah Club. They are launching a new learning track this year called End of Days that looks extremely interesting.

My second option is to remain with the weekly Torah portion as my baseline religious reading, but verge away from First Fruits of Zion into a different line of commentary. 

My third option is to stop reading the weekly Torah portions in October and start up with an alternative religious reading program. I am sorely tempted to go with a new "one book at a time" reading rule and to begin with The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (not prejudiced by watching Is God a Delusion? The Debate That Never Was: William Lane Craig vs Richard Dawkins ahead of time and frankly not looking for a debate as much as for a check-in with the other side of my moral and intellectual compass). Or perhaps I should begin with Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book. Should Adler's book be required reading in my school of eremitic Christian vegan scholarship? Should Dawkins' The God Delusion? Or at least their functional equivalents? 

Here's a reader and blogger who recommends the "one book at a time" rule: 10 Updated Rules for Reading by Erik Rostad. I like the idea of compiling my own list of reading rules, but I also feel like I should be better applying Adler's.

I am not ready to make a decision at this point about what to do in October. Send guidance, Holy Spirit!