All Episodes

Painting with Sunlight: The Stained Glass Art of Harry Clarke

In Defence of Frodo: The Trial and Heroism of Self-Sacrifice

Strange Desire and the Mystery of Love in the Music of Bleachers

The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness: John the Baptist, an Imaginative Exploration

The Ends of the Affairs: Medieval Ideals, Modern Trysts and the Offering of Redemption in the Works of Graham Greene and T. H. White

An Integrated Faith: Tolkien’s Catholicism in his Life and Work with Holly Ordway

Extraordinary Virtue in Every-Day Stories: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Creation of Music and the Music of Creation with Katie Marquette

Publishing Catholic Voices with Mary Finnegan, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books

The Spirit of Adventure in Swallows and Amazons

The Great Expectations and Romantic Ideals of Dickens's Heroes

This Mortal Coil: An Album of Loss and Subtraction, ‘Offerings’ by Typhoon

Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry

The Reed of God and the Potent Emptiness of Advent

Childish or Childlike: Labyrinth and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Growing Up

The Mystery and Manners of Flannery O’Connor

The Sublime Mystery of Thin Places: Numinous Experiences and Liminal Spaces

Rest and Recreation: Holidays and the Opportunity for Holiness

BONUS Episode: Catholic Womanhood - Youth 2000 Talk

Making Whole: Finding Healing in Community and Nature

Animating Creation: The Natural Landscapes of Studio Ghibli

[Audio Fixed] “Seeing is both good and perilous”: Information and Action in The Lord of the Rings

The Doom and Gift of Men: Stories of Death and the Desire for Immortality

Celebrating Irish Saints: Miracles, Myths and Modern Perspectives

Something Inside: Hope and the Inner Life in The Shawshank Redemption

Entering the Anglo-Saxon Seasons: Poetry, Liturgy and Festivity, with Eleanor Parker

Let Nothing You Dismay: The Ghost of Christmas Storytelling

Do You Reject Satan?: The Godfather and the Path to Power, with Katie Marquette

Over the Garden Wall: Finding Dante in the Unknown

Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Autumnal Envy: A Season of Longing and Desire

Beauty in Brideshead Revisited: The Holy and the Hedonistic

The Golden Age of Musicals and the Desire for Beauty

The Universal Truths of C.S. Lewis, with Michael Ward

The World Turned Upside Down: Chesterton’s use of Paradox in Manalive and St. Francis of Assisi

The Silent Knight: Elizabeth Lev on St. Joseph in Art through the Ages

The Grace of Gardening: Encountering Christ in Creation

Jane Austen’s Moral Imagination: A Conversation with Haley Stewart

The Time That is Given Us: Productivity and Leisure in the Modern Age

The Humility and Extravagance of Christmas

Stories that Endure: Reading the Classics

Meaningful Remembrance: The Great War and its Commemoration

Doubles and Duplicity: Gothic Themes in The Woman in White Featuring Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

Stranger Things in Stranger Times: Navigating Nostalgia in the Digital Age

Tolkien: A Thoroughly Modern Medievalist featuring Dr. Holly Ordway

Dante and Creation: Encountering God in Eden, Featuring Matthew Rothaus Moser

Keeping Your Word: Unfashionable Virtues in North and South

Lost in the Cosmos: Exploring Modernity and the Self with Walker Percy

Heavenly and Hellish Creatures in The Great Divorce feat. Pints with Jack co-host David Bates

Kingship in Camelot: The Quest for Justice in Arthurian Myth

The Cross and the Beatitudes: The Sermon on Mount Calvary

The Prince of Egypt: An Epic in Animation

Martyrdom and its Moral Dilemmas

The Heavenly Banquet and the Fictional Feasts that Make it a Reality

A Pilgrimage in Paintings: Tissot's “Life of Christ"

Books of Revelation: The Grace and Burden in Moments of Epiphany

Dracula: The Presence of Evil and the Power of Sacramentals

Nostalgia or Nihilism: The Need for Historical Honesty

Piranesi: Science and Stewardship in God’s Creation

The Lost Art of Medieval Preaching: A Dominican Perspective

Elizabeth Lev: Founding Christian Art and Redeeming Roman Myth

The Sense of Longing in The Wind in the Willows

Howl's Moving Castle and the Fascination of Fairy Stories

Sophie Scholl: Christian Conscience and the White Rose Resistance

Easter in Old English Poetic Imagination

Sacred Songs for Sorrowful Times: Music for Holy Week

Roald Dahl: Delight and Darkness

Time and T.S. Eliot: Modern and Eternal Poetry

Springing into the Season

Vermeer and the Hidden Catholicism of his Art

Little Women: Home as the School of Love

Christmas Carols: Heaven and Nature Sing

Behold Your Mother: Some Favourite Marian Devotions

Green Gables and the Great War

The Saints: More than Just Imaginary Friends

Cartoon Saloon: Celtic and Christian Coexistence

John Henry Newman: Sainthood through Friendship

Saints and Slavers: Stories of Missionaries

Jane Austen: The Freedom and Sacrifice of Moral Integrity

The Infamy and Insight of The Young Pope

The Flaw of Perfection in Female Protagonists

From St Peter's to Notre Dame: The Sacred Art of Architecture

Detective Fiction and the Mystery of Faith

Violent Films and Catholic Audiences

Tolkien and the Women of Middle Earth

The Beauty and Ugliness of the Cross

Restoring Catholic Weirdness

The Fall of Chivalry in Arthurian Legend

Living the Liturgical Year

The Sanctity of Smallness

Monsters and Morality in Romanticism

Advent and Waiting in the Dark

A Beginning and Introduction