Old Books with Grace
93 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsListening to the past can help us to understand our present. Dr. Grace Hamman, medievalist and writer, guides listeners to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and learn to ask questions of our current age. Let‘s read old books together and discover truths about God and ourselves.
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The Power of Metaphors with Joy Clarkson
April 17, 2024 11:02 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBAs a forever English major, Grace loves figurative language. So she was delighted to welcome Dr. Joy Clarkson for this episode on the power of metaphor and her recent book, You are a Tree. Joy Clarkson is the author of Aggressively Happy and host of popular podcast, Speaking with Joy. She is the books editor for Plough Quarterly and a research associate in theology and literature at King’s College London. Joy completed her PhD in theology at the University of St Andrews, where she researche...
Herbert: Four Early Modern Poets on Repentance, Lent 2024
March 29, 2024 10:23 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBThis year on Old Books with Grace, I am offering a Lent series on penitential poetry from Early Modern poets. That is, on poems of the past that reflect on one’s sin, on the need for forgiveness, on lament, on making things right, on conversion and satisfaction. In the spirit of Lent, this series will be stripped down to the essentials, which is something I’m trying to maintain in my own life this season. I will give you some background on the poet and poem, where you can find the poem, and...
Donne: Four Early Modern Poets on Repentance, Lent 2024
March 13, 2024 11:04 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBThis year on Old Books with Grace, I am offering a Lent series on penitential poetry from Early Modern poets. That is, on poems of the past that reflect on one’s sin, on the need for forgiveness, on lament, on making things right, on conversion and satisfaction. In the spirit of Lent, this series will be stripped down to the essentials, which is something I’m trying to maintain in my own life this season. I will give you some background on the poet and poem, where you can find the poem, and...
Sidney: Four Early Modern Poets on Repentance, Lent 2024
February 28, 2024 16:57 - 15 minutes - 21.5 MBThis year on Old Books with Grace, I am offering a Lent series on penitential poetry from Early Modern poets. That is, on poems of the past that reflect on one’s sin, on the need for forgiveness, on lament, on making things right, on conversion and satisfaction. In the spirit of Lent, this series will be stripped down to the essentials, which is something I’m trying to maintain in my own life this season. I will give you some background on the poet and poem, where you can find the poem, and...
Traherne: Four Early Modern Poets on Repentance, Lent 2024
February 14, 2024 11:07 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBWelcome to this year's Old Books with Grace Lent Series. This year's series is on penitential poetry. That is, on poems of the past that reflect on one’s sin, on need, on lament, on making things right, on conversion and satisfaction. Such poetry is part of an ancient tradition, dating back to the Psalms themselves. Today's poem is "Desire," by Thomas Traherne. You can read along below, or listen as I read: For giving me Desire, An Eager Thirst, a burning Ardent fire, A virgin Infant Fla...
Rediscovering Flannery O'Connor with Jessica Hooten Wilson
February 07, 2024 11:33 - 45 minutes - 62.7 MBDr. Jessica Hooten Wilson joins Grace on this episode to discuss her new book, Why Do the Heathen Rage? A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress. How does O'Connor's last novel, left unfinished at her death, fit in with the rest of her work? How does one even begin to reconstruct a fragmented manuscript? Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. She is the author of several books, most recently Reading for the Love of God. She i...
Cultural Christians in the Early Church with Nadya Williams
January 24, 2024 11:35 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MBGrace welcomes Nadya Williams, professor and author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church. What do the early Christians--and not just the martyrs and great leaders, but the ordinary folk--have to teach us today in their witness, writings, and historical record? Nadya Williams (PhD, Classics and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University) is a military historian of the Greco-Roman world and the co-editor of Civilians and Warfare in World History. She is Book Review Editor at Cur...
Jesus, or Love: Advent 2023
December 20, 2023 11:12 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBThis year’s Advent series is about the poetry of the Holy Family, the center of Advent and Christmas. Today, we arrive to worship at the manger, brother and sister to the ass and the ox looking lovingly and with great confusion into the unusual bundle resting in the hay. Welcome to the final episode of Advent 2023, on Baby Jesus and love, alongside Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Crashaw.
Joseph, or Faith: Advent 2023
December 13, 2023 11:02 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBWelcome to the second episode in the 2023 Advent series of Old Books with Grace. Each Wednesday, this series will look at a member of the Holy Family--Mary, Joseph, and Jesus--and a theological virtue--hope, faith, and love. In this episode, Grace meditates upon Joseph, doubt, and faith alongside three greats: W.H. Auden, George MacDonald, and Madeleine L’Engle.
Mary, or Hope: Advent 2023
December 06, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MBWelcome to the first episode in the Advent series for 2023. Each Wednesday, this series will look at a member of the Holy Family--Mary, Joseph, and Jesus--and a theological virtue--hope, faith, and love. Today, Grace Hamman meditates upon Mary and the stretching, longing virtue of hope alongside a fourteenth-century Middle English poem full of Marian imagery. Poems from this episode: Heyl, leuedy, se-steorre bryht Marye, mayde mylde and fre Grace's book: Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beho...
Discovering Christian Poets in Translation with Burl Horniachek
November 22, 2023 11:01 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBToday, Burl Horniachek chats with Grace about pre-nineteenth-century Christian poetry from other parts of the world that he collected in a lovely volume from Cascade Books called To Heaven’s Rim. From early Syrian poets like Romanos the Melodist to seventeenth-century Chinese artist Wu Li, the selection of Christian poetry is wide and fascinating! Burl Horniachek is a Canadian high school teacher, poet, translator and editor. He was born in Saskatoon and grew up near Edmonton. He studied An...
The Joy of Louisa May Alcott with LuElla D’Amico
November 08, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBCalling all Louisa May Alcott fans! In this episode, Grace chats with Americanist scholar LuElla D’Amico about children’s literature and the work of Louisa May Alcott in particular... including hard-hitting questions like "Should Laurie have ended up with Jo?!" (there is disagreement on the answer). Dr. LuElla D'Amico is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her primary research interests lie in ...
Beholding Jesus with Medieval Friends with Grace & Scott Hamman
October 25, 2023 10:45 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBIn this special episode about Grace's new book, Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages, Grace gets interviewed on medieval ideas about Jesus in art and literature by none other than the inestimable Scott Hamman, her wonderful non-medievalist structural engineering husband (or in his words, "Mr. Dr. Grace Hamman"). Preorder Jesus through Medieval Eyes on Amazon, B&N, or your local bookstore.
The Formative Power of the Imagination with Karen Swallow Prior
October 11, 2023 10:37 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBGrace welcomes Karen Swallow Prior to discuss her brand-new book, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis (Brazos, 2023), and from that book, the power of imagination and our formation through literature and products of culture. Karen Swallow Prior (Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo) is a reader, writer, and professor. She is the author of multiple books including The Evangelical Imagination, On Reading Well, and Fierce Convicti...
Appreciating George MacDonald with Marianne Wright
September 27, 2023 11:42 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBGrace chats with Marianne Wright on the novels and sermons of the great Victorian writer and Presbyterian minister, George MacDonald. Why did this somewhat obscure (for us today, at least) novelist inspired some of the most well-beloved writers of the twentieth century, like C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton? Marianne Wright, a member of the Bruderhof, lives in southeastern New York with her husband and five children. She has edited two books for Plough, Anni and The Gospel in George MacDonal...
Women without Children in Church History with Elizabeth Felicetti
September 13, 2023 11:25 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MBIn this first episode of season four, Grace chats with Reverend Elizabeth Felicetti, author of Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children, on the dignity and humanity of women without children and their gift to the church. The Rev. Elizabeth Felicetti is the rector of St. David's Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia and the author of the new book Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women Without Children. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christ...
Augustine and Hope with Michael Lamb
May 31, 2023 10:26 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBIn the last episode of season three, Grace talks with Dr. Michael Lamb on the great African bishop and theologian, St. Augustine of Hippo, and the virtue of hope. Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also a Research Fellow with the Oxford Character Project. He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeto...
Loving Christ our Mother with Julian of Norwich
May 17, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 32 MBIt's a magical confluence of Mother's Day week, Grace's actual birthday, and the 650th anniversary of Julian's experience with God, so Grace had to mark it in a special way herself. Yes, that's right, Grace is her own guest this week, and she even answers her own get-to-know you literary questions. The main star of the show, however, is the wondrous fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Julian of Norwich, and her beautiful vision of Christ as our Mother. Preorder Jesus Through Medieval E...
Reading Art with Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt
May 03, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBNormally, obviously, Grace talks about old books. But every now and then, OBWG presents an episode on old art. Because encountering old art is just as much about reading, interpretation, and attention as reading old books is! Today, Grace is delighted to welcome Dr. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt as a guest. Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis) is an associate professor of art and art history at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia and author of Redeeming ...
Learning like Shakespeare with Scott Newstok
April 19, 2023 11:02 - 59 minutes - 82 MBIn this episode, Grace chats with Dr. Scott Newstok on William Shakespeare (whose birthday is this week!) and the principles of a renaissance education. Scott Newstok is Professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of How to Think Like Shakespeare, as well as Quoting Death in Early Modern England, and the editor of several other books, including a forthcoming edition of Michel de Mo...
Claude Atcho on The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Book that Changed Me, Lent 2023
April 05, 2023 11:47 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBThis year’s Old Books with Grace Lent series, called “A Book that Changed Me,” offers four different conversations with guests on a book of their choice that changed them, made them think deeply about transformation, brought them closer to truth. Books can be mirrors—they can help us to consider ourselves in new light. Books invite us into conversation and reflection we would not have known to participate in without their guidance. Each of the guests in this series has chosen a book that inv...
Kaitlyn Schiess on A Wrinkle in Time: A Book that Changed Me, Lent 2023
March 22, 2023 11:02 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBWelcome to the third episode of the Lent series on Old Books with Grace, exploring literature, self-knowledge, and transformation. In today’s A Book that Changed Me, Grace chats with Kaitlyn Schiess about Madeleine L’Engle’s marvelous young adult novel, A Wrinkle in Time. Kaitlyn Schiess is the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture has been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (Brazos, 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake ...
Jason Baxter on Inferno: A Book that Changed Me, Lent 2023
March 08, 2023 10:50 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBWelcome to the second offering in this year's Old Books with Grace Lent series. “A Book that Changed Me” offers four different conversations with guests on a book of their choice that changed them, made them think deeply about transformation, brought them closer to truth. Today, Jason Baxter is the special guest, and Dante's Inferno is the special book. Jason Baxter is a college professor, speaker, and author of five books, including A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Comedy and, most recently...
Joy Clarkson on Silas Marner: A Book that Changed Me, Lent 2023
February 22, 2023 11:30 - 40 minutes - 55 MBWelcome to the first offering in this year's Old Books with Grace Lent series. “A Book that Changed Me” offers four different conversations with guests on a book of their choice that changed them, made them think deeply about transformation, brought them closer to truth. Today, Joy Clarkson is the special guest, and George Eliot's Silas Marner is the special book. Dr. Joy Clarkson is the author of Aggressively Happy: A Realist’s Guide to Believing in the Goodness of Life, and a research as...
Enjoying Elizabeth Goudge with Julie Witmer
February 08, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBHave you heard of the midcentury fiction writer, Elizabeth Goudge, author of classics like The Little White Horse or The Scent of Water? Julie Witmer, founder of the Elizabeth Goudge Book Club, comes on Old Books with Grace to talk about Goudge's life and writings, from her talent for writing children, to her love for her characters, to her mischaracterization as a romance writer!
Modernism & T.S. Eliot with Tony Domestico
January 25, 2023 11:01 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBGrace welcomes Dr. Anthony Domestico, author of Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period and chair of the literature department at Purchase SUNY, to Old Books with Grace today to chat about modernist poetry including my favorite twentieth-century poet, T.S. Eliot. Warning: this episode is slightly longer than usual episodes because Grace lost track of time in her excitement about Eliot!
Dayspring: Advent 2022
December 21, 2022 10:14 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBToday, Grace concludes the Advent series with some very, very old poetry. Poetry, in fact, that you’re already familiar with. You likely sing a form of it, or listen to it each year. Grace dives into Old English and Middle English translations of the Great O Antiphons, better known to us today as the foundation of the wonderful Advent hymn, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. Let’s look for the Dayspring, the Dawn, the Sun of Justice on this darkest day of the year.
Heaven Cannot Hold Him: Advent 2022
December 14, 2022 10:43 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBWelcome back to this year's Advent series on Old Books with Grace. This episode meditates on Christina Rossetti's A Christmas Carol, and William Langland's Piers Plowman. An interesting duo, separated by 500 years--and you'll find out why Grace pairs them in a contemplation on nature imagery and incarnational love.
Harke! Despair Away: Advent 2022
December 07, 2022 11:03 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this second installment of the Advent series on poetry, Grace meditates on George Herbert's marvelous poem, "The Bag." Listen to Herbert command despair away as Christ becomes incarnate and carries our prayers in his very body.
Were we led all this way for birth or death?: Advent 2022
November 30, 2022 10:30 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBIn the first episode of the Advent 2022 series exploring Advent & Christmas poetry from the past, Dr. Grace Hamman meditates on T.S. Eliot's The Journey of the Magi and our status as pilgrims in the world. Read The Journey of the Magi.
Praying with Puritans with Robert Elmer
November 09, 2022 11:30 - 39 minutes - 54 MBGrace welcomes Robert Elmer, the editor of Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans and Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church, the first two books in the Prayers of the Church series from Lexham Press. Grace, a medievalist slightly suspicious of Puritanism, learns about the beauty of these prayers from the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries and about Robert's own processes of finding and selecting these historical and powerful prayers.
On Beauty and Literature with Sarah Clarkson
October 26, 2022 10:56 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBBeauty is just as significant to our spiritual and moral lives as truth and goodness. Sarah Clarkson has often found this beauty in literature. Grace welcomes Sarah, author of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks Into Our Darkness, to discuss the intersections between story, beauty, and suffering. Along the way, some very recognizable names come up as sources of profound beauty in literature: J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, George Eliot, and more...
The Delights of Dickens with Gina Dalfonzo
October 12, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MBGrace welcomes Gina Dalfonzo, editor of The Gospel in Dickens (Plough Publishing House) and founder and editor of Dickensblog, to chat all things Charles Dickens. What is the appeal of this wordy writer (whom, as Gina reminds us, was NOT paid by the word)? Join Gina and Grace for a fun conversation discussing why we love and return to Charles Dickens over and over despite his foibles and flaws.
The Beauty of Old English with Eleanor Parker
September 28, 2022 11:08 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBDr. Eleanor Parker joins Grace to discuss the beauty of Old English and her delightful new book on the Anglo-Saxon calendar year, Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year. Eleanor Parker is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. She is the author of Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England (2018), Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England (2022), and Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year (202...
The Love of Learning with Zena Hitz
September 14, 2022 12:04 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBOn the season premiere of Old Books With Grace, Grace welcomes Dr. Zena Hitz, author of Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, tutor at St. John's College, and founder of the Catherine Project. Why is it important to love learning for its own sake and not instrumentalize it? How can we cultivate an intellectual life? What does Augustine of Hippo mean by curiositas? Hear Grace and Dr. Hitz's thoughts on these questions and more...
God’s Love, Thomas Aquinas, and Tradition with Fritz Bauerschmidt
June 15, 2022 12:02 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBIn this last episode of the season, Grace welcomes Dr. Fritz Bauerschmidt to chat about reading difficult authors of the past, like Thomas Aquinas, the love of God as the central feature of Christianity, and the flexibility and strength of tradition. Frederick Christian (Fritz) Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland, specializing in medieval and modern Catholic theology, and a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. H...
C.S. Lewis & Medieval Humanism with Chris Armstrong
June 01, 2022 11:52 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBGrace welcomes Dr. Chris Armstrong to the podcast to talk about his book, Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians, and think through medieval Christian humanism's influence on C.S. Lewis, and how some of these medieval ideas might help think more creatively and faithfully about community, faith, and history today. Dr. Chris R Armstrong is an educator, academic entrepreneur, author, editor, and church historian (Duke Ph.D., Gordon-Conwell M.A.). He currently serves as Program Fellow in Faith, ...
Talking Tolkien with Kaitlyn Facista
May 18, 2022 12:16 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBThis week, Grace welcomes Kaitlyn Facista, creator of the online community Tea with Tolkien. Naturally, they drink tea and talk Tolkien! Topics of discussion include: the upcoming Amazon series (and Kaitlyn's sneak peek of it in London!), how to throw a Hobbit party, why the Silmarillion matters, and the ever controversial Tom Bombadil, among other things. Kaitlyn Facista is a Catholic convert, wife, mother to four babies at home + two in heaven, and hobbit at heart. She lives with her fa...
Breaking Medieval Stereotypes with Beth Allison Barr
May 04, 2022 11:45 - 59 minutes - 82 MBBeth Allison Barr, author of Making Biblical Womanhood, is here and we are talking about history and how it shapes us, resisting the urge to impose our norms and ideas back onto the past, about medieval women, gender-bending medieval saints, good places to start reading medieval texts, and more fascinating topics... Larissa Tracy's Women of the Gilte Legende: A Selection of Middle English Saints Lives Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Varda...
Lust and Chastity: Lent 2022
April 13, 2022 11:56 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBWelcome to the last season of the Seven Capital Vices and their Remedies Lent Series! It's time to discuss lust and chastity. Rather than think through actions, Grace gets to the bottom of lust: depersonalization of others for the sake of pleasure. Chastity, in contrast, is like a blend of fidelity and the gift of seeing all people as full, precious image-bearers, never to be reducible to bodily pleasure or for that matter, just bodies.
Gluttony and Abstinence: Lent 2022
April 06, 2022 12:02 - 21 minutes - 29 MBIn this episode, penultimate in the Lenten Vices & Virtues series, Grace probes the vice of gluttony and the virtue of abstinence, which includes restraint and fasting. And what's more Lenten than to talk about fasting? And as is usual for the series: we talk about gluttony and abstinence in highly simplistic ways. Gluttony has little to do with pounds on the scale, and take courage: you're not a glutton for merely enjoying tasty food. Listen to find out more.
Avarice and Generosity: Lent 2022
March 30, 2022 12:02 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MBToday I talk avarice and generosity. Let’s begin with something really important that you probably would not know from looking at the lives of most Christians: scripture contains more warnings about money than about sex. Avarice, or covetise, as medieval English authors often called it, is the umbrella term for a whole host of disordered attitudes about money and acquisition. Let's explore further into something that likely afflicts each and every one of us...
Sloth and Strength: Lent 2022
March 23, 2022 12:00 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MBSloth is probably not what you think it is. It really has almost nothing to do with potato chips and couches and reality television. Sloth instead is a spiritual vice afflicting our willingness to do hard things in the service of love. The gift of strength and the virtues of constancy and perseverance are opposed to it. Listen in and learn about the most misunderstood of the vices.
Wrath and Its Remedies: Lent 2022
March 16, 2022 12:14 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBAnger is tricky. It can be good or bad, depending on its provocation and its expression. Because of that complexity, it does not have one clear remedy in the medieval tradition. So we talk patience, meekness, "evenhead," even the gift of knowledge. Alongside medieval writers, Grace explores the balance of feeling feelings and learning righteous anger, and rejecting hatred and wrath.
Envy and Love: Lent 2022
March 09, 2022 11:48 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBEnvy is the only vice with no pleasure. All the others have a wickedly delicious flavor initially, but envy is embarrassing, and in it, we despise others and we despise ourselves. Grace unpacks this unsavory vice and its remedy, the answer to its deepest lack, love.
Pride and Humility: Lent 2022
March 02, 2022 11:30 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBIn the first real episode of the Lent Seven Capital Vices series, meet the Queen of the Vices, Pride, and the foundation of the virtues, Humility. Hear from Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, moral philosophers and theologians of today, and several medieval manuals on pride and humility, on self-deception and self-knowledge, presumption and arrogance, childlikeness and good pride, and more...
Introducing the Vices and Virtues: Lent 2022
February 23, 2022 11:30 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this introductory episode to the 2022 Lent series, Grace dives into the history and meaning of the Seven Capital Vices, their remedies, and their timeliness for Lent. What’s this ancient way of thinking about human behavior worth to us today, when we have so much new and wonderful information on human behavior in general? What even is a vice or a virtue, strictly speaking?! Let's find out.
Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott
February 16, 2022 11:30 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBGrace welcomes Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk, and director of the MFA creative writing program at Alma College. Sophfronia and Grace discuss learning to have meaningful dialogue with books as you read, even when they were written by long-dead writers, and Sophfronia shares her wisdom on reading Thomas Merton and on the practice of reading contemplatively.
Twentieth-Century Literature and Holiness with Jessica Hooten Wilson
February 02, 2022 09:21 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBThis week, Grace welcomes Jessica Hooten Wilson to Old Books With Grace, to chat about her new book, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints, and the power of literature to reveal the subtleties of the good life. Sometimes holiness can be alarming, bizarre, and fascinating... and novels and their novelists, like Flannery O'Connor, C.S. Lewis, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, can help us to conceptualize the holy life in all its difficulty and otherworldlin...
Prayer and Liturgy with Kayla Craig
January 19, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBGrace welcomes Kayla Craig, author of To Light Their Way, a collection of prayers and liturgies for parents, and the creator of the wonderfully helpful @liturgiesforparents instagram account. We talk prayer books, the definition of liturgy, how written prayers help us find words, and the wonderful, ecumenical prayer sources and books that Kayla has enjoyed and recommends.