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How do we envision our highest ideals and deepest commitments? How do we name and express our most expansive sense of who we are? The Faith and Imagination podcast explores these questions by conversing with scholars and others who address our religious and spiritual lives creatively and insightfully. Sponsored by the BYU Humanities Center.

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How do we envision our highest ideals and deepest commitments? How do we name and express our most expansive sense of who we are? The Faith and Imagination podcast explores these questions by conversing with scholars and others who address our religious and spiritual lives creatively and insightfully. Sponsored by the BYU Humanities Center.

    Highlighted Episode: Storytelling as Theology, with guest Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton College

    Highlighted Episode: Storytelling as Theology, with guest Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton College

    This week we highlight a past episode of our Faith and Imagination Podcast. Today’s highlighted guest, Christina Bieber Lake, sees the novel as an expressly theological exercise. Dr. Lake, the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of English at Wheaton College, is the author of the 2019 book Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of …

    • 46 min
    The Beauty—the Poetry—of Christian Experience, with Benjamin Myers, Oklahoma Baptist University

    The Beauty—the Poetry—of Christian Experience, with Benjamin Myers, Oklahoma Baptist University

    Benjamin Myers is the Crouch-Mathis Professor of Literature and the Director of the Honors Program at Oklahoma Baptist University. A former poet laureate of the state of Oklahoma, Ben is the author of four books of poetry and two books of nonfiction. We discuss two of those books today, a 2020 critical work titled A Poetics …

    • 49 min
    Metaphor, Memoir, and Christian Longing and Vision—All from a Midwest Farm, with Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Wheaton College

    Metaphor, Memoir, and Christian Longing and Vision—All from a Midwest Farm, with Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Wheaton College

    Tiffany Eberle Kriner is associate professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois. The author of the scholarly book The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading as well as a number of articles and chapters in academic venues, Kriner is more recently the author of the memoir In Thought, Word, and Seed: Reckonings from a Midwest …

    • 38 min
    The Apostle Peter’s Mystical Vision and How It Bears on Modern Life, with Robert Flanagan, Virginia Theological Seminary

    The Apostle Peter’s Mystical Vision and How It Bears on Modern Life, with Robert Flanagan, Virginia Theological Seminary

    Robert Flanagan has served as an Episcopal priest since 2003. He is chaplain at General Theological Seminary in New York and serves as dean’s advisor at Virginia Theological Seminary. We speak today about this 2022 book The Letters of an Unexpected Mystic: Encountering the Mystical Theology in First and Second Peter. We attend especially to how …

    • 45 min
    Poetry as Attention, as Awakening—as Prayer, with Abigail Carroll, poet and pastor

    Poetry as Attention, as Awakening—as Prayer, with Abigail Carroll, poet and pastor

    Abigail Carroll serves as pastor of the arts and spiritual formation at Church of the Well in Burlington, Vermont. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Boston University, and she is an accomplished poet whose third collection of poems, Cup My Days Like Water, a set of meditations on the Psalms, was published just last …

    • 47 min
    John of the Cross’s “Dark Night” and Our Quest for Justice and Transcendence, with Benedict Shoup, University of Notre Dame

    John of the Cross’s “Dark Night” and Our Quest for Justice and Transcendence, with Benedict Shoup, University of Notre Dame

    Benedict Shoup is a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently writing a dissertation on the pneumatology and contemplative methodology—basically, the spiritual theory and practice—of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, John of the Cross. I met Benedict this past summer at a conference in Adelaide, Australia, where he gave …

    • 38 min

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20 Ratings

Joshua Sykes =] ,

Zachary Davis — Zion Earth Zen Sky — Shusako Endo

🌱 Grateful for the interview with Zach Davis on his wayfaring through faith, his hopes for the Church, and his gifts to the world through Wayfare Magazine and the Faith Matters Foundation.

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I also sincerely appreciated the interview with Charles Inouye on _Zion Earth Zen Sky_, along with the interview about Shusako Endo and his book _Silence_.

Maryan Shumway ,

My favorite podcast

Each interview with Matt and his guest gently guides, but also awakens me to articulate and understand my own spiritual journey. His guests come from various perspectives, all in a quest to express and chronicle their faith. You feel like you are privy to a beautiful sharing between two good friends of some of their deepest lessons of life. We should all talk, ask, laugh, and ponder a little more like these conversations.

Moe Graviet ,

A must listen!!

Fantastic. Always uplifting, inspiring, and eye-opening. Each episode gives me so much hope and points me toward higher levels of being. A must listen!

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