The Lost Birds, with Christopher Tin
A Conversation with Christopher Tin about extinction elegies, species loss, hope, and his new album with choral group Voces8.
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 162
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Klara and the Sun, Parts 5 & 6
Joy concludes the summer book club on Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, discussing part five with Sarah Clarkson, and reflecting on the final section herself.
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 161
Klara and the Sun, Part Four
Joy discusses Part Four of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with Michael Burdett and King-Ho Leung.
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 160
Klara and the Sun, Part Three
Joy discusses Part Three of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with James Smoker.
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 159
Klara and the Sun, Part Two
Joy discusses Part Two of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro with Doctors Sarah and Jeremiah Coogan.
Jul 25, 2022•51 min•Ep. 158
Klara and the Sun, Part One
Joy announces the book for her summer reading club (Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro), and discusses the first chapter.
Jul 11, 2022•27 min•Ep. 157
Beauty and Her Sisters, with Ben Quash
Joy speaks with Professor Ben Quash about the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, theological aesthetics, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture.
Apr 19, 2022•52 min•Ep. 156
Imagining Our Neighbours, Mary McCampbell
Joy speaks with Mary McCampbell (who examined her PhD!) about how literature can help us cultivate empathy toward our neighbours, near and far.
Apr 12, 2022•51 min•Ep. 155
Expect the End of the World with Paul Kingsnorth
Joy speaks with Paul Kingsnorth, a man who has been many things in his life: a poet, an eco-activist, and eco-pessimist, a warlock, and most recently, an Eastern Orthodox christian.
Mar 08, 2022•56 min•Ep. 154
Accept Love with John Swinton
After a brief break to recover from Covid, Joy shares an interview with John Swinton where they speak about God's gentle, slow love, and how we should share that love with each other.
Mar 04, 2022•39 min•Ep. 153
Shakeshafte and Other Plays with Rowan Williams
Joy speaks with Rowan Williams about his new (and first) collection of plays, the power of words, and the art of David Jones.
Feb 24, 2022•55 min•Ep. 152
Be Like Mr Collins with Haley Stewart
Joy speaks with Haley Stewart about how Jane Austen's much maligned clergyman Mr Collins knows the secrets to an aggressively happy life.
Feb 18, 2022•47 min•Ep. 151
Tell Yourself a Good Story with Casey Fritz
Joy speaks with Children's book author and illustrator Casey Fritz about the parables of Jesus, the power of storytelling, the place of horror, and the way ET demonstrate the gospel.
Feb 16, 2022•47 min•Ep. 150
Enjoy Things Unironically with Boze Herrington
Joy speaks with Boze about guilty pleasures, BTS, the importance of wonder, and the power of enjoying things unironically.
Feb 15, 2022•50 min•Ep. 149
Remember You Have a Body with Jenna Reed
Joy speaks with Jenna Reed about why we forget we have bodies and what we lose when we do, the similarities between Manichaeism and the Netflix reality TV show Love is Blind, and gentle steps we can take toward a more integrated life.
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 148
Dante’s Christian Ethics with George Corbett
Joy speaks with George Corbett about Dante Alighieri’s medieval literary masterpiece, the Comedia, and what it has to teach us about the search for direction in the dark wood of life and what it means to be human.
Feb 10, 2022•46 min•Ep. 147
Flounder Well
What do you do when you don't know what to do? When life is perplexing and no paths seem to lead anywhere? Joy discusses bewildering seasons through some of her favourite floundering art: a poem by Malcolm Guite, a song by Henry Jamison, a children's book by Barbara Cooney, and a movie with Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond.
Feb 08, 2022•42 min•Ep. 146
Befriend Sadness with Sally Clarkson
Joy talks with her mother Sally Clarkson about how sadness doesn't make us bad Christians, how to find light in dark seasons, and how to accompany others through sorrow.
Feb 03, 2022•28 min•Ep. 145
Befriend Sadness
Joy explores the theme of good grief through the journals of CS Lewis and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the swan song of Mozart, and the Irish animated film Song of the Sea.
Jan 31, 2022•47 min•Ep. 144
Christopher Tin, Everything Under the Sun in Tune
Joy talks with two time Grammy Award winning artist Christopher Tin about synecdoche, video games, the moon landing, Pink Floyd, and why music delights us.
Jan 27, 2022•50 min•Ep. 143
Aggressively Happy
Joy reads the introduction to her new book, ponders the cultivation of joy in a weary and cynical world, and announces plans for the next ten weeks of episodes.
Jan 25, 2022•46 min•Ep. 142
Youngest Siblings Rule the World (and other important truths), with Nathan Clarkson
Joy talks with her brother Nathan about the children's book they wrote together (The Clubhouse), how imagination and creativity reflect the image of God, and why youngest siblings are the best (just kidding... or are they?).
Dec 11, 2021•36 min•Ep. 141
How to Read Really Long Books! (with Sarah Clarkson)
In this episode, Joy talks with her sister Sarah about how (and why) to read really long books, and why reading good books is good for the soul.
Dec 09, 2021•50 min•Ep. 140
Annunciations of one sort or another...
Joy talks with Joel (her composer brother) about advent carols, and then reflects on two works of art about the the annunciation: a poem by Denise Levertov and a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner.
Dec 07, 2021•59 min•Ep. 139
Tea with (Dr) Joy
Joy sits down with a cup of tea to talk about finishing her PhD, writing a book, starting a new job, and what's next for the podcast.
Nov 30, 2021•22 min•Ep. 138
Part Six: Matthew Rose Sorensen
Joy reflects on the final chapter of Piranesi.
Aug 03, 2021•28 min•Ep. 137
Part Six: The Wave (with Leah Libresco Sargeant and Caitrin Keiper)
When the man called Piranesi realizes that 16 is in danger he makes up his mind to save her from the devastating flood. Joy talks with Leah Libresco Sargeant and Caitrin Keiper about Part Six of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Jul 26, 2021•50 min•Ep. 136
Part Five: Valentine Ketterley (with Haley Stewart)
This week we open a window into Matthew Rose Sorensen's past, and what we see is more horrible than we could have imagined. Joy talks with Haley Stewart about enchantment, memory, and anti-horror novels in part five of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
Jul 19, 2021•42 min•Ep. 135
Part Four: 16 (with Matthew Rothaus Moser)
Piranesi learns something that changes everything: his real name. Joy and Dr Matthew Rothaus Moser talk about names, disenchantment, and loneliness in Part Four of Susanna Clarke's novel Piranesi.
Jul 12, 2021•43 min•Ep. 134
Part Three: The Prophet (with the Crouches!)
Joy hosts a family discussion with Andy, Amy, and Timothy Crouch about Part Three of Piranesi. Their conversation touches on the wicked Prophet, self-care, naïveté, knowledge, innocence, and swan bones.
Jul 05, 2021•58 min•Ep. 133
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