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.
“It takes character to read a book”
Joel Halldorf examines how our relationship to texts and reading changes as technology shifts. (53 minutes)
The history of the “talking book”
“Ecce homo”
In this lecture, Orthodox theologian John Behr draws from the book of Genesis and early Church Fathers Irenaeus, Ignatius, Maximus to answer the question, What is a human being? (53 minutes)
The construction of the empty self
Angela Franks explains the history of the modern concept of identity as a project and shows how it falls short of a holistic Christian view of the self. (minutes)
The mystery and dignity of the human person
Jens Zimmermann reflects on why a defense of personhood is a crucial task for the future of humanity. (47 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 utopian pursuit of endless youth
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
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
“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
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
