“A Wonder of the Age”: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Now 250 years old, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral shows off Phillis Wheatley’s skill as a writer as well as her Christian faith.
Now 250 years old, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral shows off Phillis Wheatley’s skill as a writer as well as her Christian faith.
The classic novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips addresses age-old questions about the proper human response to the martial savagery surrounding us.
Empathy fails as a means of salvation because it presumes that understanding alone is enough to compel virtuous behavior.
There’s no doubt that we live in a politically divisive era, and sadly, much of that division is driven by biblical interpretation.
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is a supreme artistic achievement that is resolutely pagan.
Claude and Austin explore the concept and practice of forgiveness and how Gabriel’s domineering and toxic character is influenced by it.
Claude and Austin discuss religious power, toxic faith, and the complications of conversion in James Baldwin’s novel.
Neal Plantinga joins Austin to discuss John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and its commentary on systemic corruption and evil in the Dust Bowl.
In The Stepford Wives and Severance we’re left wondering: where is the alternative vision to the mercenary hellscapes provided?
Alan Noble joins Jessica to discuss T.S. Eliot’s writing of The Four Quartets and how the 20th century poet composed this work.
Associate Professor of Sociology Angel Adams Parham joins Claude to take a fresh look at Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America”
White Noise skewers our comforts by offering a skewed view of our modern society.
Claude and Austin “Florence’s Prayer” and the way that time functions in Baldwin’s novel, drawing out the inter-generational dynamics.
Mary W. McCampbell joins the show to talk about Graham Greene’s novel, The Power and the Glory and the themes of the “Whiskey Priest.”
Gabrielle Zevin’s acclaimed novel contains a darker thread that highlights the problem with consent being the be-all and end-all of sexual relationships.
Writer, Author, and ThD student Kaitlyn Schiess joins Jessica to talk about their love for Dorothy L. Sayers’ Zeal of Thy House.
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