These programs include new and archive interviews, readings from important journal and magazine articles, lectures by important scholars, and the occasional illustrated essay about seasonal music. The ten most recent Features are available to all from our app, and the most recent one is available on our home page. Members have access to hundreds of past Features and may download them to the app for later listening.
Volume 146 excerpts
Hear excerpts from interviews with Mark Mitchell, Hans Boersma, Henry Edmondson III, Brian Clayton, Douglas Kries, Conor Sweeney, and Carole Vanderhoof. (29 minutes)
“The world can be otherwise”
Antón Barba-Kay explores the formation of virtues that will help individuals and communities flourish in the digital age. (56 minutes)
Echoes of Finnish and Old Norse in Tolkien
Michael D. C. Drout discusses the languages and mythologies that influenced J. R. R. Tolkien’s creation of the world of Middle-earth. (17 minutes)
Chesterton and the drama of reality
Dale Ahlquist discusses the “alternative autobiography” of G. K. Chesterton he compiled from source material not seen in a century. (18 minutes)
What it means to say “God”
Theologian David Bentley Hart discusses what Western people — both Christians and atheists — understand by the terms God, transcendence, being, and reality in modernity. (48 minutes)
Volume 67 excerpts
Hear excerpts from interviews with Eric Jacobsen, Allan Carlson, R. R. Reno, Terence Nichols, David Bentley Hart, J.A.C. Redford, and Scott Cairns. (34 minutes)
A radical turn
In this lecture, D. C. Schindler explores Plato’s ideas on education to argue that the essence of education is a revolution — a complete turning-around — of the soul toward God, reality, and the self. (44 minutes)
Knowledge as encounter
In this extended conversation from 2013, D. C. Schindler discusses what it would mean to restore reason to its fullness from its current impoverished conception. (40 minutes)
Wisdom on education, virtue, and membership
This Feature honors the life and legacy of Wendell Berry (1934–2026) with excerpts from interviews with Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Michael Stevens, and J. Matthew Bonzo. (20 minutes)
Volume 140 excerpts
Hear excerpts of interviews with Jeffrey Bilbro, Jack Baker, Matthew Rubery, James Herrick, Timothy Gloege, David Hollinger, and Barrett Fisher. (37 minutes)
New lectures from the CiRCE Institute
Ken Myers introduces listeners to four recently released lectures, courtesy of our Partners. The lecturers are James Matthew Wilson, Darrell Falconbourg, Nicholas Kotar, D. C. Schindler. (19 minutes)
Taking up the tale
In this lecture, Malcolm Guite explains how the literary tradition is received, studied, indwelt, and then passed on as a living thing. (105 minutes)
A medley of voices on education
This Feature presents excerpts from several guest interviews (with David I. Smith, Scott Newstok, Norman Klassen, and Jens Zimmermann) on the topic of education. (25 minutes)
Volume 106 excerpts
Hear excerpts of interviews with Adam Briggle, John C. Médaille, Christopher Page, Christian Smith, Herman Daly, and Thomas Hibbs (33 minutes)
What we lose if we stop reading
Joel Halldorf examines the history of reading and how our relationship to texts and reading changes as technology shifts. (35 minutes)
A courageous witness
Geoffrey Zokal discusses his forthcoming film on the life and witness of Jesuit priest and theologian Henri de Lubac (1896–1991). (23 minutes)
