Sacred and Profane Love

This week, we revisit Episode 43 with Brad Carson on Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind!

Throwback to the big five-oh: Episode 50 with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon!

This very exciting episode on liberal education with Professor Roosevelt Montás makes a come back this week!

Throwback to our first episode recorded with a live audience: Dr. Cornel West on James Baldwin!

Let's go back to the beginning, where it all began: Episode 1 on Flannery O'Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. !!

Please join us for the most popular of our re-runs thus far. It's the return of Episode 55 with Professor Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics!

We invite you to explore one of our previously aired episodes: a conversation with Dana Gioia.

We come back to Episode 48, where I speak with Thomas Hibbs about Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, in our second re-run for the summer!

In our first re-run for the summer, we revisit our most popular episode from Season 4, Episode 51!

In this episode, I explain our recent hiatus. As I'm transitioning to my new role as inaugural dean of the Honors College at University of Tulsa, we'll be re-running our most popular episodes throughout the summer.

In this episode, Russell Hittinger and I finish our conversation on St. Augustine’s Confessions and discuss the last three books.

In this episode, I continue my conversation with Russell Hittinger about one of the great masterworks of the Western literary tradition: St. Augustine's Confessions. In our discussion on books VI-IX, we track St. Augustine's conversion to Christianity and his mother's death.

In this episode, I speak with professor Russell Hittinger about one of the great masterworks of the Western literary tradition: St. Augustine's Confessions. We discuss the structure of the book as a whole, its intended audience, the reasons Augustine wrote it, and its first five books, detailing Augustine's birth, boyhood, and young adulthood.  This is part one in a three part series on this book.

In this episode, I speak with professor, novelist, and critic, Randy Boyagoda, about why people of faith should read contemporary novels, the role of literature generally in the spiritual, moral, and intellectual life, and the themes of his two latest novels, Original Prin and Dante's Indiana.