The Sower The Ciceronian Society

In this Episode, Josh Bowman and James Patterson announce the Peter Augustine Lawler Award for Excellence in the Study of ‘Things Divine’ on GivingTuesday 2023.

Click here to learn more about this award: https://ciceroniansociety.org/conference/lawler

Visit https://ciceroniansociety.org/donate/ to learn about the different ways you can give to the Ciceronian Society.

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CORRECTION: In this episode, James mistakenly referred to UVA's Jim Ceaser as Peter Lawler's dissertation adviser, but that was incorrect. Ceaser was, however, a friend and mentor to Peter.

This is Part 2 of a two-part Podcast where VP Josh Bowman interviews Nate Roberts, founder of the Michigan Academy of Folk Music (MAFM). In this episode, we’ll talk about the role of music in discipleship and moral and spiritual formation generally.

https://www.mifolkmusic.com/

In Part 2, we discussed Nate and MAFM’s approach to music education and its overlap with classical education, homeschooling, and more.

Listeners may be interested to hear some of Nate’s recordings. Search for the following albums where you listen to music

Unadorned and Commonplace by Hayes Griffin & Nate Roberts
Structures by Nate Roberts and Doug Scheuerell
Dendrophilia by Nate Roberts Trio
The Meaning of a Tree by the Field Hymnal

If you enjoy learning and writing about any of the topics discussed in this Podcast, we encourage you to visit our website to sign-up for our newsletter and to register for our upcoming conference, February 29 - March 2, 2024 in Plano, TX.

https://ciceroniansociety.org/

This is Part 1 of a two-part Podcast where VP Josh Bowman interviews Nate Roberts, founder of the Michigan Academy of Folk Music (MAFM). In this episode, we talk through Nate and MAFM’s approach to music education and its overlap with classical education, homeschooling, and more.

https://www.mifolkmusic.com/

In Part 2, we’ll talk about the role of music in discipleship and moral and spiritual formation generally.

Listeners may be interested to hear some of Nate’s recordings. Search for the following albums where you listen to music

Unadorned and Commonplace by Hayes Griffin & Nate Roberts
Structures by Nate Roberts and Doug Scheuerell
Dendrophilia by Nate Roberts Trio
The Meaning of a Tree by the Field Hymnal

If you enjoy learning and writing about any of the topics discussed in this Podcast, we encourage you to visit our website to sign-up for our newsletter and to register for our upcoming conference, February 29 - March 2, 2024 in Plano, TX.

https://ciceroniansociety.org/

In this episode, VP Josh Bowman interviews professor Ryan Holston on his new book, Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory (SUNY Press, 2023)

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Tradition-and-the-Deliberative-Turn

We address modern notions of democratic theory and deliberation and consider how the work of Hans Georg Gadamer might inspire a revision or even a rejection of key insights by influential democratic theorists. A return to the wisdom of tradition and notions of friendship may offer a more promising ground on which to build a non-ideological and just democracy.

If you enjoy learning and writing about any of the topics discussed in this Podcast, we encourage you to visit our website to sign-up for our newsletter and to register for our upcoming conference, February 29 - March 2, 2024 in Plano, TX.

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VP of the Ciceronian Society, Josh Bowman, talks with Landon Loftin of the Gravitas Prep School (https://gravitas.sbs.org/) , regarding his book co-authored with Max Leyf on Owen Barfield:

What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield (Cascade Books)
https://wipfandstock.com/9781666736762/what-barfield-thought/

Owen Barfield (1898–1997) was a close friend of C.S. Lewis and a member of The Inklings, a group which also included J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams among other literary luminaries. He was a prolific author throughout his long life, and was known as a philosopher of the “evolution of consciousness,” a great reader of S.T. Coleridge, and a central figure sharing the movement called “anthroposophy” with the English-speaking world. Visit his literary estate to learn more: https://www.owenbarfield.org/

If you enjoy learning and writing about any of the Inklings, including Barfield, we encourage you to visit our website to sign-up for our newsletter and to register for our upcoming conference, February 29 - March 2, 2024 in Plano, TX.

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VP of the Ciceronian Society, Josh Bowman, talks with David Michael Phelps, president of Harmel Academy.

Harmel Academy is a post-secondary, Catholic trade school in Grand Rapids Michigan pioneering an exciting new strategy for the formation and education of men.

To learn more, go to www.harmelacademy.org

Select books mentioned:

A. G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life https://www.cuapress.org/9780813206462/the-intellectual-life/

Matthew Crawford, Shopcraft as Soulcraft
http://www.matthewbcrawford.com/new-page-1-1-2

Poe Leo, XIII Rerum Novarum
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World
https://svspress.com/for-the-life-of-the-world-new-edition/

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