The Academy Podcast

In this conversation starter, Andrew anticipates graduation, asks 17 questions, and offers a final benediction.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this episode of The Council, Jennifer, Catie, and Holly takeover the podcast. They discuss the Foundational Commitments of The Academy along with the usual banter. After all, Eric is still producing._________We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Send us Fan Mail

In this special conversation starter, Andrew speaks with this year's Lyceum speaker, Michael Ward, C.S. Lewis scholar.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh talks to Beth Thompson, class of 2022, about her Capstone. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr considers the necessary place of Capstone in answering what are ultimately missional questions.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew anticipates festivity, thinks about Capstone, and argues that the end of education is not the power to control but is instead the freedom to love.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this episode of The Council, Andy, Eric and Josh puzzle over Nathan’s absence and attempt to hold things together. Along the way they introduce a new sponsor and discuss the foundational commitments of the Academy. We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh considers the connection between story and the Academy’s core commitments. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr dives deep into Mozart's Requiem and how it drives imagination.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew invites all listeners to the 10th annual Lyceum Project and suggests a fundamental connection between our three foundational commitments—the eternal significance of shaping affections.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this Council episode, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh discuss the nature of the imagination with help from Coleridge, Lee and Berry. Along the way they weigh the merits of nature and community in the creation of imaginative humans.--------We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh looks you square in the face and wonders aloud over the imaginative horizons the face of the Other can bring to us.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr reflects on how being in and observing nature shapes his imagination.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew looks ahead (or behind) to the great precipitation, reads some Dante, and argues that imagination is of central importance. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

Nathan, Andy, Eric and Josh wish you the merriest, happiest, most blessed Advent and/or Christmas on this very special episode of the Council. There’s a heaping serving of meat and potatoes to keep the executive producers in the holiday spirit and enough shenanigans to keep the other tens of listeners in the same. --------We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Nathan singing O Holy Night at Karaoke Night in 2008: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ&list=RDMk4woNRD7NQ&start_radio=1Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh investigates the courage needed to hope for Christmas at the right time. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Nathan takes us upstream to our children’s life of virtue.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew turns practical, thinks about the virtue of humility, and reads some Jane Austen. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this holiday conversation starter, Andy Black is back from the aether with some well-wishes for our tens of listeners and some thoughts about the virtuous tension between feasting and fasting.--------Dear tens of listeners, we want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] us Fan Mail

Andrew leaves Nathan and Josh unattended and Eric does his best to channel his inner Andrew to keep things focused long enough to discuss the nature of virtue, exemplars and discerning your ends from your means. --------We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh reflects on the relationship between virtues and ends. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr explains priest collar protocol and then challenges us on what it really means to be virtuous.Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew finally musters the courage to defend his wardrobe and thinks aloud about what virtue is and what virtue requires.-------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this united episode, our intrepid foursome discusses themes connecting our previous installments focusing on putting memory into practice. We continue to marvel at the Room of Requirement and (to our executive producers’ chagrin) hear from an old friend of the show. Plus, sponsors!--------We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] NOTES:Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Josh wonders aloud: If you had no time and no outside resources, could you tell a coherent story about things that matters?----------We want to hear from you! Email us your questions and critiques to [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr wonders aloud at some of the necessary nutrients for an active memory.________________We want to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew explains this month's more practical turn, reflects on our general compulsion to record, and suggests the great potential of thoughtful revisiting.We'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] us Fan Mail

In this inaugural episode of the Academy podcast reboot, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh, reignite our listeners with that oh so familiar accessible pretension. Our intrepid quartet ties together the past several weeks’ individual podcasts into a coherent narrative about the nature and redemption of memory. And of course, along the way, we offer you, dear tens of listeners, the requisite amount of shenanigans.We want to hear from you, dear listeners. Email us at [email protected]. The Academy Podcast will release a new episode every Tuesday so check out next week's Conversation Starter as we continue on the topic of memory.Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Josh invites you to consider how you interact with your memories.Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr continues the conversation on memory by exploring contemplation, enjoyment, and memorial.Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew welcomes listeners to a new season, explains what's happening to the Podcast this year, and invites you to have a conversation on the ways you regularly access the distant past.Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects on the sounds of an ongoing school year and asks how the ways we keep time might affect each of us more than we usually stop to consider. Send us Fan Mail

The ninth annual Lyceum Project presents a lecture by Leah Libresco Sargeant: "The Demands of Human Dependence."Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew speaks with this year's Lyceum Project guest, author and policy analyst Leah Libresco Sargeant. They talk about her conversion from Atheism to Catholicism, about her love of math, about her two books, about feminism, about Congress and the possibilities for a Christian politics, and about how we should all embrace depending on others and on God. Send us Fan Mail

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects a bit on J-Term at Midtown, looks forward to an upcoming Lyceum Conversation, and tries to start a conversation about memory. He explores the role of memory in the life of learning and the life of faith, gestures at the connection between memory and the transformation of the self, and thinks a little bit about the consequences for our own lives of the ancient notion of memory as an art with four pillars. Send us Fan Mail

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew describes the Academy's annual preparations for a Christmas Feast and some of our thinking about why to celebrate so regularly and so formally. Then, Andrew reveals the three ancient points of connection between Christmas and Happiness, points revealed in the writing of G. K. Chesterton in commendation of another and older English novelist, Charles Dickens. The episode concludes with three questions to consider as you begin your Christmas celebrations.Send us Fan Mail

In this inaugural episode of Lyceum Conversation Starters, Andrew first explains the idea behind the series, and then explores the inaugural topic: Advent. This is the first of a series called "Lyceum Conversation Starters" wherein Andrew will discuss certain topics in a more abbreviated fashion. Stay tuned for more episodes in the future!Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew talks with Alex Burdge, teacher of humanities at the Rhetoric School, about teaching Homer's Iliad, the ancient poem of war, as a veteran of war himself. We also talk about T. S. Eliot, the University of Kansas, classical guitar, and the role of Critical Theory in Alex's journey toward faith. Included in the episode are lengthier quotations from Robert Fagle's English translation of Homer's Iliad as well as a few mentions of a book by Timothy Patitsas, The Ethics of Beauty. A brief word of caution, this episode may be inappropriate for especially young listeners, as it deals with the experience of war, including some violent and disturbing images.Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew speaks with Josh Spears, Chair of Theology and principal of the Academy's South Campus, about theology, about prayer, about the ground of all learning, and about cabinetry. This is the second in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at the Academy.Send us Fan Mail

Welcome to season 6 of Lyceum Conversations! In this episode, Andrew gives an overview of episodes you can expect to hear over the course of 2023-24. We're very excited about what we have lined up, and we certainly hope you will find it informative and interesting as we explore Classical Christian Education at The Academy.Send us Fan Mail

Eric, Nathan and Josh. Special Guests. Nonsense. Pretentious Accessibility. It’s all back. We promise. More episodes. We’ll give the clamoring crowds what they want. Stay tuned.Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew speaks with Jeff Bilbro, associate professor of English at Grove City College and the editor-in-chief of Frontporch Republic, about one of his books, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry Into the News and an upcoming, related project. There's also conversation about technology, experiencing nature, 19th century America, and Jeff's boat, "The Brain of Hannah."----Theme Music: "Camelot Monastery" by Darren CurtisSend us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew speaks with Anne Bradford, Chair of Languages at the Academy and a Latin teacher at North Campus Dialectic, about Latin at the Academy, about memory, about song, and about knitting circles. This is the second in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at The Academy.----Theme Music: "Camelot Monastery" by Darren CurtisSend us Fan Mail

In this episode of Lyceum Conversations, Andrew Black, Lyceum Director and teacher at the Academy's Midtown Campus and the new Lyceum Director, tells you about himself. We'd love to hear what you think. Do you want to hear more content like this? We have more long-form interviews upcoming so be on the lookout. Email us anytime at: [email protected] Music: "Camelot Monastery" by Darren CurtisSend us Fan Mail

In this episode, Andrew speaks with Colin Creech, chair of Science and teacher at the Academy's Midtown Campus, about Natural Philosophy, the study of science, and cooking on a train. This is the first in a series of conversations about Classical Christian Education at the Academy.We'd love to hear what you think. Do you want to hear more content like this? We have more long-form interviews upcoming so be on the lookout. Email us anytime at: [email protected] Music: "Camelot Monastery" by Darren CurtisSend us Fan Mail

It's Auction Week at The Academy! Jamie Howell takes over the podcast to host a special episode dedicated to all things auction and what to expect this Friday. If you're on the fence about going, get off and come to the auction and have the greatest time of your life!----Auction Website: http://one.bidpal.net/academyauction2022Send us Fan Mail

Aaaaaaaaaaand…..we’re back. Eric, Nathan and Josh are live on the mic with your somewhat consistently mediocre accessibly pretentious nonsense.  The triad bounce seamlessly between a deep dive into kombucha, butterfly knives and Conair before transitioning smoothly to our new series for Season Five: a kind of classical school lexicon (lexicon being pretentious for dictionary; we had to, right?!). We throw around jargon at the Academy, so we thought we’d take some time to unpack a number of those words and ideas to give a sense of what ‘classical Christian education’ means here at the Academy.We're always happy to hear from you, dear listener (all 8 of you). Email us at [email protected] us Fan Mail

"From Mystic Rituals to Christian Liturgy: A History of Ascent, its Influence on Dante's Paradise and our own Lives."Our common Christian goal is unity with God. This is also the goal of ascent. This project argues that Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy and Bonaventure’s Journey of the Mind into God prominently influence Dante’s articulation of ascent in his poem Paradise. Furthermore, as Christians, we ought to observe Dante’s spiritual ascension and strive to ascend as well. The project seeks to demonstrate that Dante was indeed influenced by Boethius and Bonaventure, and, somewhat consequently, Dante’s ascent reflects our own Christian pilgrimage. Send us Fan Mail

"'Attending to the Otherness of the Other': How Study Abroad Experiences Can Lead to a Deeper Love for our Neighbors."Our graduates graciously love their neighbor, especially the most broken and marginalized. Studying abroad is a popular idea for many reasons, some of them quite superficial. This project argues that we can broaden our global understanding through travel and immersive experiences. These experiences include, but are not limited to, study abroad. The project also explores how to best study cultures different from our own. It connects these suggestions with an emphasis on Christian hospitality and humility ,especially toward neighbors in other cultures. Ultimately, we can love our cultural neighbors by engaging with and learning from them. Send us Fan Mail

“Blurring the Lines: Reality, The Road, and the Importance of Fictional Storytelling.”In a world steeped in modernist ideals and practicality, fictional storytelling is often undervalued or regarded with suspicion, a medium of little importance. Though fiction can seem endlessly confounding, the argument is whether the formational truths of fiction matter to us today. This project explores the place of fiction in our pursuit of reality and virtue through an examination of fiction’s origins in human imagination and impact on the self. Finally, the project examines an example offiction-at-work, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.Send us Fan Mail