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Here are the 18 most recent Archive Features, Bonus Features, and Conversations. Members can download and play these programs from the Library screen on their app. Add select programs to your Favorites list for more convenient access.

The utopian pursuit of endless youth

FROM VOL. 118 Gilbert Meilaender explains why anti-aging research cannot be a metaphysically neutral topic, and argues against the utopianism of escaping the body. (23 minutes)

The unmasking of self-fictions

Glenn Arbery describes what the genre of tragedy reveals about human experience and how it does this work of revelation. (63 minutes)

“The secret at the heart of poetry”

Glenn Arbery explores how lyric poetry works to reveal essential insights into human and transcendent experience. (47 minutes)

The plausibility of “post-human” aspirations

FROM VOL. 140 James Herrick discusses the “post-human” aspirations of the transhumanist movement, and how its plausibility is established by stories. (28 minutes)

Quiet misanthropy vs. Christian humanism

Bishop Robert Barron explores the misanthropic and inherently unstable anthropology at the heart of the modern university and offers an alternative for human flourishing. (46 minutes)

Moral order and human depravity

FROM VOL. 93 J. Daryl Charles examines the recent resurgence of natural law thinking among some conservative Protestants who had been generally disposed to suspicion concerning the idea. (14 minutes)

“We become what we behold”

Peter Crawford explores how a sacramental education involves helping students to behold a world saturated with signs that point to Christ — and then to act as faithful stewards. (68 minutes)

The wise and good Creator

FROM VOL. 139 Matthew Levering points out that what is often missing from the doctrine of creation ex nihilo is an adequate understanding of God’s wisdom and knowledge. (21 minutes)

The “two-foldness” of human nature

In this lecture, Marc Barnes critiques the current reigning system of gender for its ironies, internal inconsistencies, and failure to satisfy or “work” on its own terms. (32 minutes)

The nature of things

In this 2026 lecture, Mary Harrington explores modernity’s “Thomophobic epistemological straitjacket” that bans serious inquiry into the nature of things. (41 minutes)

The popularity of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity

FROM VOL. 133 Historian George Marsden discusses the birth and influential life of C. S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity. (26 minutes)

The strengths of Christian scholarship

FROM VOL. 25 George Marsden explores the culture of suspicion in academia toward Christian scholarship and argues for its inclusion as intellectually viable and coherent with regard to reality. (11 minutes)

Mid-20th century intellectual consensus

FROM VOL. 122 George Marsden discusses the influence of public intellectuals in America during the 1950s and their concerns for national moral consensus. (22 minutes)

The reclaiming of authentic liberalism

John Médaille examines the Christian roots of liberalism and how liberalism might be recovered from the heresy of secularism. (51 minutes)

Catechesis in “Screentopia”

In this lecture, Brad East builds a case for why he believes digital technology is the greatest threat facing American Christians today. (57 minutes)

“Your life is a miracle”

In this lecture, L. M. Sacasas questions whether Byung-Chul Han’s critique of modern life as a “burnout society” is still accurate. (40 minutes)

Truth lives in language

Craig Gay reflects on how language is not merely a tool for humans to use, but is a part of our very being as creatures made in the image of the God who is the living Word. (52 minutes)

Modern isolation

FROM VOL. 150 Eric Jacobsen argues that the emblematic items of the car windshield, the television, and the cell phone — “three pieces of glass” —have led to alienation from people and the places where we live. (22 minutes)

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