CONVIVIUM 2023: Inscapes and Transcending Suffering The Golden Echo 2023-12-18 | This is my talk from the 2023 Convivium in Arkansas.
Perspectival Eucatastrophe and Its A Wonderful Life The Golden Echo 2024-01-04 | A Christmas meditation on the power of perspective change, George Bailey, and waiting on suffering.
CONVIVIUM 2023: Panel discussion from Day 1 - Ted, Fr. Eric, and Dr. Jim The Golden Echo 2023-12-30 | Ted, Fr. Eric, and Dr. Jim discuss the presentations from the day.
CONVIVIUM 2023: Job with Jess The Golden Echo 2023-12-27 | Jess joined us to discuss the poetic qualities of the book of Job.
Epigraphs - Wisdom Has Built Her House: Beatrix Potters Jemima Puddle-duck and Lady Folly The Golden Echo 2023-11-24 | Ted and Maria discuss Beatrix Potter's tale of a foolish duck and her narrow escape from a foxy gentleman.
Walking and the order of the cosmos - Ted and Cory The Golden Echo 2023-11-01 | We discuss our time on the Three Hearts Pilgrimage in Oklahoma last month and the connection between discipline and sanity, the home and heaven, and the need for good fathers.
A fleeting glimpse of Joy - On Fairy-stories by Tolkien with Emma The Golden Echo 2023-08-11 | Emma joins me to discuss Tolkien's excellent essay on fairy-stories: why we should read them, how his ideas relate to Barfield, Peterson and Chesterton, and how they help us see the world anew.Poetry event in Arkansas: events.eventzilla.net/e/convivium-2023-poetry-as-perception-2138588315
Inconvenience: Ascesis and Parenting The Golden Echo 2023-07-19 | Ted and Cory reflect on how inconvenience can help us come into contact with reality and conform ourselves to the Good, True, and Beautiful.Come to Convivium 2023 in Arkansas on Poetry and Perception, November 17-18events.eventzilla.net/e/convivium-2023-poetry-as-perception-2138588315
The Tail of a Tale: Cosmic Significance of Squirrel Nutkin The Golden Echo 2023-07-16 | What does Beatrix Potter's "Tale of Squirrel Nutkin" tell us about the shape of reality?
Narrative Coherence and the Cardinal Virtues The Golden Echo 2023-07-13 | Ted and Maria discuss how virtue and narrative shape each other and how both help us make sense of the world.
Hylomorphic Reality and Bad Dualism - Reality in C. S. Lewis Perelandra The Golden Echo 2023-07-01 | Cory and I talk through the 11th Chapter of C. S. Lewis' Perelandra. Covered:Beauty and WillDivine ComedyWarHylomorphic Reality and Bad DualismsAsceticism and Aestheticism
Things Fall Apart The Golden Echo 2023-06-22 | Ted and Maria discuss learning to be human and the perilous business of rearing children.
Read Big or Go Home The Golden Echo 2023-06-22 | Ted and Maria discuss epics: What they are, why they're great, and why you should read them.
I Spy: A Discussion of Lying By Richard Wilbur The Golden Echo 2023-06-22 | What's under all those images?
Made You Look: The Palantir and the Will The Golden Echo 2023-06-22 | Join us as we take a look at Tolkien's Mirror of Galadriel and the Palantir and what they show us about sight.
The Arc of the Long Narrative The Golden Echo 2023-06-22 | Ted and Maria discuss what narrative shows us about Justice and how framing stories helps us to recognize and develop virtue.
