From the Center Podcast
1) Feeding the Soul: Stories for a Child's Imagination
In this episode, Director Hodges and Ben discuss the nature of children's stories and how they offer another world for contemplation, a world beyond our own that lives on in our minds long into adulth...Show More
2) Repeating History? Parallels with the Fall of the Roman Republic
Are there similarities between the decline of the West today and the decline of the Republic of Rome after the Punic Wars? Director Hodges muses about the similarities, and comments on an article writ...Show More
3) Henryk Gorecki's SYMPHONY OF SORROWFUL SONGS
As we continue to consider the cultural works of the West, this is another of our Director's live conference lectures, given in 2011, just months after the death of the composer Henryk Gorecki, a Poli...Show More
4) Messiaen's QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME
As we continue to investigate the great books, music, and ideas of our Western Civilization, we thought it would be good to offer a live conference lecture from 2010 that Director Hodges gave on Olivi...Show More
5) A Timeless Moment: Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Acceptance Speech
In 1970, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel prize for literature, but due to the repressive regime of the USSR, was not allowed to leave his native Russia to receive it. His speech, written w...Show More
6) Till We Have Faces, Part II: The Resolution and Meaning
In this episode, we dive into the second part of the great myth of Cupid and Psyche, told from the perspective of one of her ugly stepsisters -- and we finally come to the meaning of the title.
7) Till We Have Faces: part I
Director Hodges and Ben Cumming discuss CS Lewis' marvelous fiction, TILL WE HAVE FACES, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
8) Flannery Does It Again: Revelation
In this episode, our culture samplers dive into another of Flannery O'Connors great short stories, REVELATION. In it we compare Mrs. Turpin with Mrs. May of GREENLEAF, and the point of pride that temp...Show More
9) Flannery O'Connor's GREENLEAF Discussed
In this episode, Director Hodges, and co-host Ben discuss the great Flannery O'Connor short story GREENLEAF. If you have not read it, we suggest that you take the 20 minutes to read it before you list...Show More
10) Where Does Evil Lie? A Discussion of Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS
Director Hodges and co-host Ben Cumming discuss Joseph Conrad's book HEART OF DARKNESS and address the death of Romanticism and the beginning of the 20th century.