The Scandal of Reading 19 | Lit Pulpit – Go Tell It On the Mountain, Part 2
Claude and Austin discuss their impressions of Baldwin’s cast of characters and the critical importance of setting.
Claude and Austin discuss their impressions of Baldwin’s cast of characters and the critical importance of setting.
Rather than specific solutions, Yesterday I Had the Blues demonstrates the Black community’s rich history of transforming adversity and fear into hope.
D.L. Mayfield joins the show to discuss the life and writings of the social worker and self-described anarchist Dorothy Day.
Austin and Claude delve into James Baldwin’s debut novel.
Jessica is joined by poet and pastor Drew E. Jackson to discuss Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited.
For the Turtle, or anyone who has always been told what to do, losing that direction can be disorienting.
Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson is joined by Claude Atcho and Austin Carty to introduce new listeners to the show at the start of Season 2.
Few of us moderns know the origins of Dickens’ contagious Christmas Spirit, the joyful and perhaps mythic spring from which he created A Christmas Carol.
Co Hosts Claude and Austin tease their new show with a light discussion of James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain.
Frederick Buechner’s Godric is discussed by Jessica and guest Austin Carty, including the themes of death and fiction as autobiography.
We got a lot of good things from the Greeks and the Romans, but not the concept of God as a loving, suffering servant.
Jessica and Tsh Oxenreider discuss Walker Percy’s debut novel and its new meaning for younger generations in an increasingly disconnected society.
Jessica and Abigail Favale discuss Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 feminist utopian novel Herland and why it’s still worth reading today.
Jessica and Haley Stewart discuss Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter and how its view of sin contrasts with our modern view.
Jessica and guest Karen Swallow Prior discuss Flannery O’Connor’s final novel, “The Violent Bear It Away” and its commentary on suffering.
Chris Smith joins to discuss Bernanos’ Diary of a Country Priest and the novel’s take on the literary history of historic individualism.
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