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Believe to See — 309 episodes

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The Art of King Arthur's Court

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The Once and (Always) King: Arthur Legends through the Centuries

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Why Phantastes Still Matters

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Who Continues the Lore?

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Who Owns the Lore?

6

The Other Inklings

7

The Theology of Vampires and Zombies

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Peculiar Purpose

9

The Case for Toilet Humor

10

The Saints As Stand-Up Comedians

11

Jim vs. The Future

12

Writing Music for Video Games (And Movies. And TV.)

13

The Bible Is a Story About Dragons

14

Truth Is Stranger . . .

15

On Birds and Grief and Hope -- Courtney Ellis

16

When Bad People Make Good Art

17

Our Stories Need "Undaunted Joy"

18

Why Should We Care About Jane Austen's Bookshelf?

19

Shakespeare and the Dallas Cowboys

20

Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?

21

Daughters of Bronze--Ashlee Cowles

22

BEST OF Believe to See: Is It a Christmas Movie?

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BEST OF Believe to See: 12 Days of Christmas Carol

24

Are Today's Literary Novels Only for Women?

25

From Rend Collective to Children's Author

26

Harry Potter in 500 Years

27

Why the Hammered Dulcimer Is the Greatest Instrument You've (Probably) Never Heard Of

28

Neve Foster's Big Reveal

29

You Can't Judge a Book . . .

30

Beneath, Between, Beyond--Carolyn Leiloglou

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What Our Favorite Colors Say About Us

32

The Happiest Saddest People

33

All Aboard the Grandparents Express

34

It's Never Too Late for Beach Reads

35

Carving Light From Darkness

36

Superheroes and the Science of the Imagination

37

Navigating the Nonfiction Market

38

Sharing Is Caring

39

Should Novels Have Architecture?

40

How to Make a Video Game

41

Battle of the Books

42

Sirens Everywhere! Not the Singing Kind

43

Stories Tell the Truth

44

When Art Gets the Blues

45

Man Behind The Mythmakers

46

The Enduring Appeal of YA

47

The Green Ember Video Game

48

Where Folk Meets Jazz

49

Road Trip! Interview With Isaac Hans

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Back to Carrick Hall--Sarah Arthur

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Who's the Anselm-iest Artist? Finale

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Who's the Anselm-iest Artist? Part Two

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Who's the Anselm-iest Artist?

54

How to Destroy a Child's Imagination

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Is It a Good Love Story?

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Effective Christian Characters

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"Insert Perfect Title Here"

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Art that's Cool to Hate

59

Can Kids' Cartoons be Great Cinema?

60

Solitude and Community

61

SD Smith and the Found Boys

62

The Hosts Debrief: Naming - We Just Can't Escape It!

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Sense of Wonder: Delighting in God's Presence Throughout the Holiday Season

64

Halloween: Should Christians Celebrate this Iconic Holiday?

65

Flip the Pub Table: Matt Mellema Interview

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Obligated to Create?

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Taylor Swift's Storytelling Power

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Encouraging Our Young Storytellers

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The Power of Naming

70

Jacoby Elliott Interview: How Beauty Can Point Us Back to God

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Interview with Jane Scharl

72

Dune

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Interview with Jody Collins

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Interview with KC Ireton

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Impactful Art from Childhood

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Loving Our Neighbors Through Our Art

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Interview with Rachel Shinnick

78

Interview with Sylvie Vanhoozer

79

Literature Remixes

80

Disney Reboots

81

Yearning in the Lives of Christians: Interview with Amy Lee

82

Limitations as Artists

83

Interview with Brandy Vallance: Symbols and Symbolic Language

84

Interview with G Connor Salter

85

Cynical Literature

86

Interview with A.D. Rhine

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Interview with Sarah Arthur

88

Feedback from Other Artists

89

Interview with Austin M. Freeman

90

Right Story, Wrong Time

91

Favorite Books of 2023

92

Fasting and Feasting in the Christian Imagination

93

Interview with K.B. Hoyle

94

Friendship in Literature

95

Interview with Jennifer Layte

96

Interview with Matthew Lee Anderson

97

The Anselm Society Top 5

98

"The Art of Naming:" Why We Create Interview with Marilyn McIntyre

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Karen Swallow Prior Interview

100

"The Art of Subcreation:" Why We Create Interview with Matthew Clark

101

AI and Art

102

"Time and Its Creator:" Why We Create Interview with Jane Scharl

103

Why We Create: Gratitude as the Foundation of Human Creativity

104

Why We Create: Interview with Brian Brown

105

Interview with Autumn Krause

106

Catechesis for Children: Interview with Natasha Kennedy

107

Van Gogh and Middle Grade Fiction: Interview with Carolyn Leiloglou

108

Christianity and the Dramatic Arts: Interview with Nicole Stratton

109

Catechesis and Children: Danielle Hitchens Interview

110

Comps—Finding "Comparable Books" as an Author

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Fairy Tales of Old Russia: An Interview with Nicholas Kotar

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The Importance of Voice in Writing

113

Aliens in Fiction

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An Interview with Alice Faye Duncan

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Bad Boys in Literature

116

The Importance of Voice

117

An Interview with Andrew Peterson

118

Stories Too Big: An Interview with Gianna Soderstrom

119

The "feeling intellect" of C.S. Lewis: An Interview With Terry Glaspey

120

An Interview with Jane Scharl

121

Elves and Irish Saints

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"Sadness is the soul's way of saying 'this mattered'": An Interview with KJ Ramsey

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Where Art Meets Ministry: an Interview with Eric Schumacher

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Elisa Lambert Interview: Worldbuilding

125

Wordless Picture Books

126

Piranesi Book Discussion

127

Interview with SD Smith and Josiah C Smith

128

Compulsion to Create: Interview with Brian Wight

129

[New Year's] Resolutions in Literature

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Interview with Justin Gerhardt of Holy Ghost Stories

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The Artist's Platform

132

Is It a Christmas Movie?

133

Interview: Tracy Higley on Creating from an Inner World of Joy

134

Thin Places

135

Fantasy Pub Table Draft

136

True Crime Stories: Truth or Fabrication?

137

Strong Female Protagonists

138

Cultivating Appreciation for Other Art Forms

139

Gardening: Learning from the Ground

140

Interview: The Making of an Audio Drama with The Merry Beggars

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Interview: Making Your Home an Outpost of Grace and Beauty with Elyce Westby

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Interview: Nicole Beck on Portraiture

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Pub Night: The Golden Key

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Interview: Story, Trauma, and Faith with Sam Jolman

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Interview: Aaron Damiani on Deconstruction and Liturgical Practices

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It's Never Too Late for Art

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Interview: Teaching Drama with Nancy Holaday

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Heraldry: Story through Symbols

149

Wanting to Doubt Shakespeare

150

Finding Meaning in Time

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Interview: What Makes a Children's Story Timeless?

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Pub Night: Smith of Wooton Major

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Interview: Only the Lover Sings

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Fae or Not Fae?

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Interview: Bandersnatch Classics

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Roundtable: Heaven in Art

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Pub Night: The Secret Garden

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Subcreating in Subcreations

159

Learning the Catherine Project Way

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How to Find Creative Ideas

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Pottery (and Watercolors) in the Time of COVID

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Pub Night: St. Brigid's Cloak

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How to Notice Great Photography

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Short Stories vs Novels

165

The Joy of Rules

166

How to Deal with Failure

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Stories Shaped by Dungeons & Dragons

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Episode 107: Stories that Shaped Us

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Looking Forward to 2022

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Episode 106: Reading Evangelicals

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Episode 105: Lewis and His Space Trilogy

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Episode 104: Phantastes Graphic Novel

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Episode 103: For Those Wandering Along the Way

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Episode 102: Civic Renaissance

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Help, I'm Drowning

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Bonus: Amy Lee on "Creating Art in the Time of War"

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Episode 100: Rosefire

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Bonus: Anthony Esolen on "Teaching People to Open Their Eyes"

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Bonus: Lanier Ivester on "The Magic of Rivendell"

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Episode 99: Tom Sawyer and Tumbleweed Thompson

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Episode 98: Streams in the Wasteland

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Episode 97: Our Classical World

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Episode 96: Here Be Dragons

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Episode 95: Contra Disney(?)

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Episode 94: A Guide to Reading and Reflecting

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Episode 93: Deus Ex Musica

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Episode 92: Godzilla vs. Mellema Brothers

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Episode 91: Harrowing of Hell

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Episode 90: Where Prayer Becomes Real

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Episode 89: Comic Horror

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Episode 88: Turning of Days

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Episode 87: Merry Beggars Theater

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Episode 86: Classical Architecture Now!

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Episode 85: Bandersnatch Books

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Episode 84: 12 Days of Christmas Carol

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Episode 83: Space Samurai

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Episode 82: What Makes a Classic Children's Book?

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Episode 81: Why Readers Love the Amish

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Episode 80: The Allusionist Pastor

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Episode 79: Behind the Rabbits

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Episode 78: What Makes a Poem Epic?

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Episode 77: Fantasy Pub Table(!)

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Episode 76: Exvangelical Literature

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Episode 75: Bringing Poetry to the People

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Episode 74: Cryptid Cinema

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Episode 73: Misquoting CS Lewis

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Episode 72: Mythos of Michael Jordan

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Episode 71: In Defense of the Romantics

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Episode 70: Question of the Day Extravaganza!

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Episode 69: The Gaming Artist

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Episode 68: Bach, the Centric Genius

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Episode 67: Is It Okay to Be a Weirdo?

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Episode 66: Do All Artists Have to Be Weirdos?

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Episode 65: Becoming an Indie Comic Artist

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Episode 64: More Little Women

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Episode 63: Odyssey Adventures

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Episode 62: Father Christmas through the Wardrobe

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Episode 61: Unsolved True Crime

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Episode 60: The Importance of Formal Poetry

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Episode 59: Wild at Art

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Episode 58: Christian Rock Revisited

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Episode 57: Fantasy Pub Table (Part 2)

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Episode 56: Fantasy Pub Table Draft (Part 1)

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Episode 55: Things I No Longer Believe

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Episode 54: The Narrative Cubist

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Episode 53: After the End Game

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Episode 52: Into the Potterverse

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Episode 51: Couples Who Art

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Episode 50: Why Christian Inspiration Books?

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Episode 49: Goodbye, Marcus

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Episode 48: The Detective Fiction Mystery

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Episode 47: Good Art from Bad People

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Episode 46: Beauty with the Bathwater

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Episode 45: On the Reading of Old Books

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Episode 44: Comics and Myth (and Caves)

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Episode 42 part 2: Anselm Crossover Extravaganza!

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Episode 42 part 1: Anselm Crossover Extravaganza!

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Episode 41: I'm Sorry, Dylan Thomas

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Episode 40: Desert Island Challenge

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Episode 39: Is the Book Always Better?

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Episode 38: Welcome, Great Pumpkin

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Episode 37: Everyone Should Be A Book Girl

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Ken Robertson: The Art of Lament

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Episode 36: Outliner's Revenge

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Overcoming Darkness in the Life of a Creator

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Episode 35: Fantasy Pub Table Draft

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Episode 34: Frankenstein's Playwright

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Episode 33: L'Engle's Light

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Episode 32: Save the Humanities (?)

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Episode 31: The Beautiful Game

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Panel - Reuniting Church and the Arts

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S.D. Smith - From Critic To Creator Or Curator

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Matt Burnett - A Wrinkle in Time: Theological Imagination of Madeleine L'Engle

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Glenn Paauw - Re-Enchanting The Scriptures

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Glenn Paauw - Strong And Beautiful Words

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Panel - Beyond Christian Radio

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Panel - Through A Glass Dimly

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Lancia Smith - The Cultivator's Manifesto

259

Heidi White - Facing The Monster

260

Brian Brown - Marvel vs Jane Austen

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Brian Brown - The Place Of Art In The Church

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Matt Burnett - Sacramental Theology from the Deck of the Dawn Treader

263

Anthony Esolen - Teaching People To Open Their Eyes

264

Lanier Ivester - Rivendell: Home and Hospitality as Art and Worship

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Amy Lee - Signposts Of Joy

266

Martyn Minns - Ancient Future Worship For Today

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Corey Latta - Dorothy Sayers: Imagining What We Might Be

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Episode 30: Holy Stories

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Episode 29: Simpich Showcase

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Episode 28: Music Class in Session

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Episode 27: Rabbits with Swords

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Episode 26: The Lost Jedi

273

Episode 25: Meet the Alewife

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Episode 24: Faerie, not Fairy

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Episode 23: Imagination Illustrated

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Episode 22: Jovial Narnia

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Episode 21: Enchanted Theology

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Episode 20: Fantasy Pub Table!

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Episode 19: Art from the Pieces

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Episode 18: Theology of Soundtracks

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Episode 17: What Makes a Film Christian?

282

Episode 16: The Power of Harry Potter

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Episode 15: The Forgotten Harp

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Kyle Strobel: Harry Potter and the Christian Way of Power

285

Episode 14: Gritty Reboot

286

Episode 13: Looking Closer at Film

287

Episode 12: Rembrandt Today

288

Episode 11: Steampunk Forever

289

Episode 10: Make Songs, Not Robots

290

Episode 9: Art from Trauma

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Episode 8: Mere C.S. Lewis

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Episode 7: Playing with Color

293

Episode 6: Art by Numbers

294

Episode 5: Gothic and the Beast

295

Episode 4: The Rhetoric of Music

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Episode 3: The Art of the Calendar

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Episode 2: Why YA Matters

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Episode 0: Introduction

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Episode 1: Brian Brown on the Anselm Society, the church, and the imagination

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Diana Glyer: Finding Narnia in Middle Earth

301

Rod Dreher: How Dante Can Save Your Life

302

Junius Johnson: Finding The Creator In An Ugly World

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Scott Cairns: A Hunger for Communion

304

Malcolm Guite: Incarnation and Imagination

305

Michael Ward: Is Faith Without Imagination Dead?

306

John Griffin: The Architecture of Community

307

Peter Leithart: Dostoevsky and the Desire for Freedom

308

Donald Williams: The Origins of C.S. Lewis: How G.K. Chesterton Shaped the Man Who Shaped Narnia

309

Christopher Mitchell: The Gospel and Fairy Tale: The Literary Art of J.R.R. Tolkien