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Believe to See — 312 episodes

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Have We Become Too Ironic?

2

Ancient Paths Made New

3

Look for the Story: Storytelling in Visual Art

4

The Art of King Arthur's Court

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

6

Why Phantastes Still Matters

7

Who Continues the Lore?

8

Who Owns the Lore?

9

The Other Inklings

10

The Theology of Vampires and Zombies

11

Peculiar Purpose

12

The Case for Toilet Humor

13

The Saints As Stand-Up Comedians

14

Jim vs. The Future

15

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

16

The Bible Is a Story About Dragons

17

Truth Is Stranger . . .

18

On Birds and Grief and Hope -- Courtney Ellis

19

When Bad People Make Good Art

20

Our Stories Need "Undaunted Joy"

21

Why Should We Care About Jane Austen's Bookshelf?

22

Shakespeare and the Dallas Cowboys

23

Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?

24

Daughters of Bronze--Ashlee Cowles

25

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

26

BEST OF Believe to See: 12 Days of Christmas Carol

27

Are Today's Literary Novels Only for Women?

28

From Rend Collective to Children's Author

29

Harry Potter in 500 Years

30

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

31

Neve Foster's Big Reveal

32

You Can't Judge a Book . . .

33

Beneath, Between, Beyond--Carolyn Leiloglou

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What Our Favorite Colors Say About Us

35

The Happiest Saddest People

36

All Aboard the Grandparents Express

37

It's Never Too Late for Beach Reads

38

Carving Light From Darkness

39

Superheroes and the Science of the Imagination

40

Navigating the Nonfiction Market

41

Sharing Is Caring

42

Should Novels Have Architecture?

43

How to Make a Video Game

44

Battle of the Books

45

Sirens Everywhere! Not the Singing Kind

46

Stories Tell the Truth

47

When Art Gets the Blues

48

Man Behind The Mythmakers

49

The Enduring Appeal of YA

50

The Green Ember Video Game

51

Where Folk Meets Jazz

52

Road Trip! Interview With Isaac Hans

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Back to Carrick Hall--Sarah Arthur

54

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?

57

How to Destroy a Child's Imagination

58

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"

61

Art that's Cool to Hate

62

Can Kids' Cartoons be Great Cinema?

63

Solitude and Community

64

SD Smith and the Found Boys

65

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

67

Halloween: Should Christians Celebrate this Iconic Holiday?

68

Flip the Pub Table: Matt Mellema Interview

69

Obligated to Create?

70

Taylor Swift's Storytelling Power

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Encouraging Our Young Storytellers

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The Power of Naming

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

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Interview with Jane Scharl

75

Dune

76

Interview with Jody Collins

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Interview with KC Ireton

78

Impactful Art from Childhood

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Loving Our Neighbors Through Our Art

80

Interview with Rachel Shinnick

81

Interview with Sylvie Vanhoozer

82

Literature Remixes

83

Disney Reboots

84

Yearning in the Lives of Christians: Interview with Amy Lee

85

Limitations as Artists

86

Interview with Brandy Vallance: Symbols and Symbolic Language

87

Interview with G Connor Salter

88

Cynical Literature

89

Interview with A.D. Rhine

90

Interview with Sarah Arthur

91

Feedback from Other Artists

92

Interview with Austin M. Freeman

93

Right Story, Wrong Time

94

Favorite Books of 2023

95

Fasting and Feasting in the Christian Imagination

96

Interview with K.B. Hoyle

97

Friendship in Literature

98

Interview with Jennifer Layte

99

Interview with Matthew Lee Anderson

100

The Anselm Society Top 5

101

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

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Karen Swallow Prior Interview

103

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

104

AI and Art

105

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

106

Why We Create: Gratitude as the Foundation of Human Creativity

107

Why We Create: Interview with Brian Brown

108

Interview with Autumn Krause

109

Catechesis for Children: Interview with Natasha Kennedy

110

Van Gogh and Middle Grade Fiction: Interview with Carolyn Leiloglou

111

Christianity and the Dramatic Arts: Interview with Nicole Stratton

112

Catechesis and Children: Danielle Hitchens Interview

113

Comps—Finding "Comparable Books" as an Author

114

Fairy Tales of Old Russia: An Interview with Nicholas Kotar

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The Importance of Voice in Writing

116

Aliens in Fiction

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An Interview with Alice Faye Duncan

118

Bad Boys in Literature

119

The Importance of Voice

120

An Interview with Andrew Peterson

121

Stories Too Big: An Interview with Gianna Soderstrom

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

123

An Interview with Jane Scharl

124

Elves and Irish Saints

125

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

126

Where Art Meets Ministry: an Interview with Eric Schumacher

127

Elisa Lambert Interview: Worldbuilding

128

Wordless Picture Books

129

Piranesi Book Discussion

130

Interview with SD Smith and Josiah C Smith

131

Compulsion to Create: Interview with Brian Wight

132

[New Year's] Resolutions in Literature

133

Interview with Justin Gerhardt of Holy Ghost Stories

134

The Artist's Platform

135

Is It a Christmas Movie?

136

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

137

Thin Places

138

Fantasy Pub Table Draft

139

True Crime Stories: Truth or Fabrication?

140

Strong Female Protagonists

141

Cultivating Appreciation for Other Art Forms

142

Gardening: Learning from the Ground

143

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

149

It's Never Too Late for Art

150

Interview: Teaching Drama with Nancy Holaday

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Heraldry: Story through Symbols

152

Wanting to Doubt Shakespeare

153

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

157

Fae or Not Fae?

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Interview: Bandersnatch Classics

159

Roundtable: Heaven in Art

160

Pub Night: The Secret Garden

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Subcreating in Subcreations

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Learning the Catherine Project Way

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How to Find Creative Ideas

164

Pottery (and Watercolors) in the Time of COVID

165

Pub Night: St. Brigid's Cloak

166

How to Notice Great Photography

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Short Stories vs Novels

168

The Joy of Rules

169

How to Deal with Failure

170

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

178

Help, I'm Drowning

179

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

186

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

214

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

219

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

247

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

262

Heidi White - Facing The Monster

263

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

266

Anthony Esolen - Teaching People To Open Their Eyes

267

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

268

Amy Lee - Signposts Of Joy

269

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

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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?

285

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

288

Episode 14: Gritty Reboot

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Episode 13: Looking Closer at Film

290

Episode 12: Rembrandt Today

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Episode 11: Steampunk Forever

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Episode 10: Make Songs, Not Robots

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Episode 9: Art from Trauma

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Episode 8: Mere C.S. Lewis

295

Episode 7: Playing with Color

296

Episode 6: Art by Numbers

297

Episode 5: Gothic and the Beast

298

Episode 4: The Rhetoric of Music

299

Episode 3: The Art of the Calendar

300

Episode 2: Why YA Matters

301

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

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Rod Dreher: How Dante Can Save Your Life

305

Junius Johnson: Finding The Creator In An Ugly World

306

Scott Cairns: A Hunger for Communion

307

Malcolm Guite: Incarnation and Imagination

308

Michael Ward: Is Faith Without Imagination Dead?

309

John Griffin: The Architecture of Community

310

Peter Leithart: Dostoevsky and the Desire for Freedom

311

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

312

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