In launching our partnership program in 2024, we expanded how we pursue our mission by serving a curatorial and custodial role beyond the scope of the recordings that originate in our studio. We are pleased to offer the Features listed below, each of which has been provided by one of our Partners. These Features include lectures and texts read as “audio reprints.” Listeners may also sign up for free Partner-affiliated memberships to listen to all Features provided by particular Partners. Simply choose a Partner from the list of Partners on this page, and follow the sidebar instructions to sign up.
To return to the source
D. C. Schindler explores the difference between revolution as negation and revolt and revolution as a radical return to deeper origins. (50 minutes)
No place left onstage for hope?
James Matthew Wilson explores the tragic vision of the world in Shakespeare’s plays, revealing the often-overlooked and somewhat hidden hints of grace and of Christ that point to a more hopeful view of the cosmos. (59 minutes)
The holy fool in Russian culture
Storyteller Nicholas Kotar speaks of the role of the “idiot” in Russian fairy tales, one whose simplicity and humility lead to wisdom and the transformation of those around them. (48 minutes)
“A revolution prevented, not made”
Darrell Falconbourg explains the tensions inherent in the word “revolution,” which in the classical sense meant a return to an origin and in modernity means a total rupture with the past. (41 minutes)
Implications of an “absent” God
David L. Schindler (1943–2022) explores the implications for a civilization that discards the reality that being is grounded in God. (minutes)
The Lord of the dance
In this essay, Vigen Guroian journeys through C. S. Lewis’s Narnia chronicles to discover the “motifs of faith and redemption” that illuminate and illustrate the Christian experience. (41 minutes)
Love the stranger, embody the kingdom
Christine Pohl argues that an understanding and practice of hospitality should be recovered because of its centrality to Christian life and discipleship. (56 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)
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)
We are not “stochastic parrots”
In this essay, Talbot Brewer argues that our understanding of the nature of words and their relationship to human nature is “teetering” due to artificial intelligence chatbot systems and large language models (LLMs). (42 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)
The desire for truth
In this article, Romanus Cessario, O.P., recounts the life, theology, and influence of St. Thomas Aquinas (1224/5–1274). (38 minutes)
Christian culture and the myth of the secular
Ken Myers draws on T. S. Eliot to argue that Western civilization has broken down, not into a multiplicity of cultures, but into a “post-culture.” (47 minutes)
How to make war on nothingness?
David Bentley Hart argues that if it rejects Christ, the only remaining option for a post-Christian culture is conscious or “narcotic” nihilism, which takes the form of absolute, meaningless volition. (66 minutes)
The Bride of Christ
John Cavadini explores the different views of Origen and Augustine as to the nature and mission of the Church, and he calls for a recovery of the identity of the Church as the Bride of Christ. (38 minutes)
The inward eye, cosmic truth, and making well
Andrew Kern takes his listeners along an “interlinear” reading of a portion of St. Augustine’s Confessions that explores the differences between how God makes and how we create. (38 minutes)
The epistemology of love
In this lecture, N. T. Wright examines the epistemology of love and how it counters the reductionism of Enlightenment and Epicurean ways of knowing. (63 minutes)
“If there is no God, all is permitted”
Gary Saul Morson explores the consequences of belief and disbelief in God through Russian literature. (51 minutes)
Grace and Christian realism
Jennifer Frey explores Thomist elements in Flannery O’Connor’s theology and writing, with a particular emphasis on a Thomist understanding of art. (39 minutes)
A humanist urban vision for Chicago
Philip Bess imagines what metropolitan Chicago might look like in one hundred years if it were designed according to classical humanist principles and with an overt acknowledgement of sacred order. (93 minutes)
Rose without thorns
Ken Myers introduces various settings of “Ther is no rose of swych vertu,” a medieval carol that uses imagery of a rosebush to describe the Virgin Mary. (29 minutes)
A “cosmological omnibus”
George Grant recounts the fascinating history of Hernando Colón’s attempt in the 16th century to curate a universal library of the world’s knowledge. (41 minutes)
The cost of “killing” God
In this October 2023 lecture, Carl Trueman explores the concept of “desecration” as a frame for understanding the nature of modernity in our time. (42 minutes)
