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Believe to See — 304 episodes

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The Other Inklings

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The Theology of Vampires and Zombies

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Peculiar Purpose

4

The Case for Toilet Humor

5

The Saints As Stand-Up Comedians

6

Jim vs. The Future

7

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

8

The Bible Is a Story About Dragons

9

Truth Is Stranger . . .

10

On Birds and Grief and Hope -- Courtney Ellis

11

When Bad People Make Good Art

12

Our Stories Need "Undaunted Joy"

13

Why Should We Care About Jane Austen's Bookshelf?

14

Shakespeare and the Dallas Cowboys

15

Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?

16

Daughters of Bronze--Ashlee Cowles

17

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

18

BEST OF Believe to See: 12 Days of Christmas Carol

19

Are Today's Literary Novels Only for Women?

20

From Rend Collective to Children's Author

21

Harry Potter in 500 Years

22

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

23

Neve Foster's Big Reveal

24

You Can't Judge a Book . . .

25

Beneath, Between, Beyond--Carolyn Leiloglou

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What Our Favorite Colors Say About Us

27

The Happiest Saddest People

28

All Aboard the Grandparents Express

29

It's Never Too Late for Beach Reads

30

Carving Light From Darkness

31

Superheroes and the Science of the Imagination

32

Navigating the Nonfiction Market

33

Sharing Is Caring

34

Should Novels Have Architecture?

35

How to Make a Video Game

36

Battle of the Books

37

Sirens Everywhere! Not the Singing Kind

38

Stories Tell the Truth

39

When Art Gets the Blues

40

Man Behind The Mythmakers

41

The Enduring Appeal of YA

42

The Green Ember Video Game

43

Where Folk Meets Jazz

44

Road Trip! Interview With Isaac Hans

45

Back to Carrick Hall--Sarah Arthur

46

Who's the Anselm-iest Artist? Finale

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Who's the Anselm-iest Artist? Part Two

48

Who's the Anselm-iest Artist?

49

How to Destroy a Child's Imagination

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

51

Effective Christian Characters

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"Insert Perfect Title Here"

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Art that's Cool to Hate

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Can Kids' Cartoons be Great Cinema?

55

Solitude and Community

56

SD Smith and the Found Boys

57

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

58

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

59

Halloween: Should Christians Celebrate this Iconic Holiday?

60

Flip the Pub Table: Matt Mellema Interview

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Obligated to Create?

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Taylor Swift's Storytelling Power

63

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

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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

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Interview with Sylvie Vanhoozer

74

Literature Remixes

75

Disney Reboots

76

Yearning in the Lives of Christians: Interview with Amy Lee

77

Limitations as Artists

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Interview with Brandy Vallance: Symbols and Symbolic Language

79

Interview with G Connor Salter

80

Cynical Literature

81

Interview with A.D. Rhine

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Interview with Sarah Arthur

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Feedback from Other Artists

84

Interview with Austin M. Freeman

85

Right Story, Wrong Time

86

Favorite Books of 2023

87

Fasting and Feasting in the Christian Imagination

88

Interview with K.B. Hoyle

89

Friendship in Literature

90

Interview with Jennifer Layte

91

Interview with Matthew Lee Anderson

92

The Anselm Society Top 5

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

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Karen Swallow Prior Interview

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

96

AI and Art

97

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

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Why We Create: Gratitude as the Foundation of Human Creativity

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Why We Create: Interview with Brian Brown

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Interview with Autumn Krause

101

Catechesis for Children: Interview with Natasha Kennedy

102

Van Gogh and Middle Grade Fiction: Interview with Carolyn Leiloglou

103

Christianity and the Dramatic Arts: Interview with Nicole Stratton

104

Catechesis and Children: Danielle Hitchens Interview

105

Comps—Finding "Comparable Books" as an Author

106

Fairy Tales of Old Russia: An Interview with Nicholas Kotar

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The Importance of Voice in Writing

108

Aliens in Fiction

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An Interview with Alice Faye Duncan

110

Bad Boys in Literature

111

The Importance of Voice

112

An Interview with Andrew Peterson

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Stories Too Big: An Interview with Gianna Soderstrom

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

115

An Interview with Jane Scharl

116

Elves and Irish Saints

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

118

Where Art Meets Ministry: an Interview with Eric Schumacher

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Elisa Lambert Interview: Worldbuilding

120

Wordless Picture Books

121

Piranesi Book Discussion

122

Interview with SD Smith and Josiah C Smith

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Compulsion to Create: Interview with Brian Wight

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[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

127

Is It a Christmas Movie?

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

129

Thin Places

130

Fantasy Pub Table Draft

131

True Crime Stories: Truth or Fabrication?

132

Strong Female Protagonists

133

Cultivating Appreciation for Other Art Forms

134

Gardening: Learning from the Ground

135

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

138

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

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Wanting to Doubt Shakespeare

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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

149

Fae or Not Fae?

150

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

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Learning the Catherine Project Way

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How to Find Creative Ideas

156

Pottery (and Watercolors) in the Time of COVID

157

Pub Night: St. Brigid's Cloak

158

How to Notice Great Photography

159

Short Stories vs Novels

160

The Joy of Rules

161

How to Deal with Failure

162

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

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Heidi White - Facing The Monster

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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

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Anthony Esolen - Teaching People To Open Their Eyes

259

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

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Amy Lee - Signposts Of Joy

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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?

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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

280

Episode 14: Gritty Reboot

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Episode 13: Looking Closer at Film

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Episode 12: Rembrandt Today

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Episode 11: Steampunk Forever

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Episode 10: Make Songs, Not Robots

285

Episode 9: Art from Trauma

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Episode 8: Mere C.S. Lewis

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Episode 7: Playing with Color

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Episode 6: Art by Numbers

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Episode 5: Gothic and the Beast

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Episode 4: The Rhetoric of Music

291

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

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Rod Dreher: How Dante Can Save Your Life

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Junius Johnson: Finding The Creator In An Ugly World

298

Scott Cairns: A Hunger for Communion

299

Malcolm Guite: Incarnation and Imagination

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Michael Ward: Is Faith Without Imagination Dead?

301

John Griffin: The Architecture of Community

302

Peter Leithart: Dostoevsky and the Desire for Freedom

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

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