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S3 E22 - The Art of Naming (with Marilyn McEntyre)
Why did God tell Adam to name the animals? When you think about it, it’s an odd time to quit...
S3 E21 - A Story Full of Time (with Glenn Paauw)
The Bible is filled with time because God’s revelation is always historical—a story of moments...
S3 E20 - The Art of Christian Memory (with Heidi White)
These days we tend to take a dim view of the past. We struggle to overcome things (personal or...
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S3 E19 - The Art of Subcreation (with Matthew Clark)
Tolkien talked about “subcreation” - this thing we do when we take something God has made and...
S3 E18 - How Gardens Teach Us to Cultivate (with Christina Brown and Amy Lee)
At last year's Imagination Redeemed conference, Christina Brown and Amy Lee shared about the art...
S3 E17 - The Craft of Cultivation (with Gracy Olmstead)
Cultivation is a lost art for most of us. It requires paying attention—understanding each person...
S3 E16 - Why We Remember the Past Differently (with Heidi White)
In preparation for Heidi White's keynote session on the Art of Christian Memory (which she'll...
S3 E15 - Why Christians Need Mythology (with Heidi White)
How are we supposed to grapple with the past—the good, the bad, and the ugly? Why does the Bible...
S3 E14 - Incarnation and Imagination (with Malcolm Guite)
Christ's incarnation is the spark of Christian creativity. Poet, rock musician, and priest...
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S3 E13 - How Our Creating Is (and Isn't) Like God's (by Peter Leithart)
Why did God make us? What do our personal journeys represent in the grand scale of things? Is it...
S3 E12 - Making the Most of Our Time (with Leslie Bustard)
What is the role of gratitude in figuring out what to do with the time that is given to us? Can...
S3 E11 - Close Reading: East Coker by T.S. Eliot (with Corey Latta)
Bonus episode! After the conversation with Corey about how Bergson's theory of time influenced...
S3 E10 - Lewis and Eliot on Time (with Corey Latta)
Did you know that both C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot wrote about Time? About how the present moment...
S3 E8 - Doctor Who and the Mystery of Time (with Ned Bustard)
Time is one of those things that's bigger on the inside, and the science of Time gets complex...
S3 E7 - What is Time? (by Jane Scharl)
What if time is more than the passing of moments? What if it’s a gift to help us find meaning?...
S3 E6 - Bonus: The Already and the Not Yet
The ascension of Christ at the end of the Gospels leaves Christians with a paradox: how do we...
S3 E5 - Finding Heaven in Earth (by Hans Boersma)
The world around us deserves our awe and wonder, but we can make the error of believing the good...
S3 E4 - Does the Physical World Matter?
God's workmanship and His character are crackling through every fiber of the world that we live...
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