Faith & Culture
262 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsJoseph Pearce, Editor of Faith & Culture magazine, has weekly interviews with well-known Catholic authors, speakers, and academics on a variety of topics related to Catholicism.
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Changing the World through Small Group Discipleship
June 25, 2019 10:00It all began with a question “What do you seek?” and an invitation “Come and See.” With these words, Jesus initiated his plan to change the world through a handful of disciples. They did not seem a likely band of brothers let alone potential leaders of a global movement – several fishermen, a tax collector, a zealot and others somewhere near the lower rungs of the social ladder. Yet Jesus chose twelve men to transform history. And they did. Jesus calls us to the same in our own time and plac...
One Family Under God
June 24, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBLuis Soto explains to Joseph Pearce his forthcoming book One Family Under God, in which he sets out a vision for bringing all American Catholics together, irrespective of their varying cultural roots.
Light and Stone: The Photography of Frederick Evans
June 20, 2019 10:00In the age of smart phones equipped with tiny yet powerful camera lenses, and instant photo sharing through social media, we tend to take photography as an art for granted. It has become an entertaining hobby for the masses, a quick and easy way to document life. If the proliferation of selfies in the past two decades is anything to go by, it has even become an addiction for some. Photography wasn’t always so quick and easy. When it was still an activity in which only a moderate number of p...
Homer and the Meaning of Life
June 19, 2019 10:00Sing, Muse, of Achilles’ anger and its devastation … and of the will of Zeus which was done. The opening lines of Homer’s epic, The Iliad, say it all. In these first few words, the Poet betrays his purpose and unpacks the deepest meaning of his work. He begins with a prayer to his Muse, the goddess of creativity, requesting the grace he needs to tell the story well and honestly. In doing so, he is acknowledging that creativity is a gift of the gods and that without their supernatural help...
The Saintly Outlaw
June 18, 2019 10:00Attend and listen, gentlemen, who are of freeborn blood, I shall tell you about a good yeoman, whose name was Robin Hood. While he was alive, he was a proud outlaw, and no outlaw was found who was as courteous. - From “A Gest of Robyn Hode”, Translated by Knight and Ohlgren, Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, pp. 80-168 Most everyone knows the legend – or variety of legends – surrounding a man called Robin Hood. We have repeated the catchphrase “he robbed from the rich to give to the poor....
Faith and Contemporary Poetry
June 17, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBMary Rezac Farrow enthuses with Joseph Pearce about contemporary poetry and how it relates to the timeless truths of the Faith.
NEWMAN, MANNING AND THEIR AGE
June 13, 2019 10:00In a flash a sort of ripple ran along the line and all these eccentrics went down on their knees on the public pavement … Then I realized that a sort of little dark cab or carriage had drawn up … and out of it came a ghost clad in flames … lifting long frail fingers over the crowd in blessing. And then I looked at his face and was startled with a contrast; for his face was dead pale like ivory and very wrinkled and old … having in every line the ruin of great beauty. The “ghost clad in flam...
Deeper Magic
June 12, 2019 10:00In reflecting upon Ken Clark’s edifying article in Faith and Culture, “The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio” (May 22, 2019), I will invoke Narnia. I love the part in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when Aslan explains to the children how an even deeper magic than the white witch knew about allowed him to rise from the dead. As fascinatingly as that term rings in our imaginations, I naturally wonder if there might be anything like a “deeper magic” in the arts. “The Taking of Christ,” the ...
The God Principle
June 11, 2019 10:00“Of course I am not religious,” said Nobel Laureate Philip W. Anderson (Physics, 1977), “I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.” It is the sort of pronouncement one is accustomed to hear—an oft-repeated theme from secular modernity’s dreary sonata. What is remarkable about Anderson is not his deafness to the Word, but that this deafness should coincide with a refreshing attentiveness to the being of things. To the non-specialist, Anderson’s signal contrib...
The Ancient Wisdom of the Creed
June 10, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MBJoseph Pearce is joined by theologian John Sehorn to look at the Creed and why it conveys ancient and timeless wisdom.
The Best of Chesterton
June 06, 2019 10:00“I am interested in getting to know the works of G.K. Chesterton. Could you recommend a good place to start?” When I hear this question, one of the most frequently asked during my travels on the lecture circuit, I experience a sinking feeling deep inside. I am obviously not disappointed that my interlocutor desires to get to know Chesterton. (Perish the thought!) On the contrary, I am always delighted to learn of another would-be convert to the magic of GKC. The truth is that the sinking fee...
Fairy Tales Can Come True
June 05, 2019 10:00“Fairy Tales Can Come True, It Could Happen to You, If You’re Young at Heart.” These opening words to Young at Heart (music by Johnny Richards, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh) was a mega-hit in 1953. Frank Sinatra was the first of many to record it and it was a million-selling hit that year. No doubt its huge success, which has continued long after 1953, is owed to the fact that there is something real about fairy tales and it is important to grownups never to lose the special wonder that children ...