Risking Enchantment

By Rachel Sherlock

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A discussion on beauty in art and culture and its place in the Catholic faith.

Episode Date
Painting with Sunlight: The Stained Glass Art of Harry Clarke
Apr 30, 2025
In Defence of Frodo: The Trial and Heroism of Self-Sacrifice
Mar 14, 2025
Strange Desire and the Mystery of Love in the Music of Bleachers
Feb 08, 2025
The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness: John the Baptist, an Imaginative Exploration
Jan 11, 2025
The Ends of the Affairs: Medieval Ideals, Modern Trysts and the Offering of Redemption in the Works of Graham Greene and T. H. White
Nov 09, 2024
An Integrated Faith: Tolkien’s Catholicism in his Life and Work with Holly Ordway
Sep 22, 2024
Extraordinary Virtue in Every-Day Stories: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jun 08, 2024
The Creation of Music and the Music of Creation with Katie Marquette
May 07, 2024
Publishing Catholic Voices with Mary Finnegan, Deputy Editor at Wiseblood Books
Apr 18, 2024
The Spirit of Adventure in Swallows and Amazons
Mar 30, 2024
The Great Expectations and Romantic Ideals of Dickens's Heroes
Mar 10, 2024
This Mortal Coil: An Album of Loss and Subtraction, ‘Offerings’ by Typhoon
Feb 22, 2024
Poetic Vision: The Catholic Case for Everyday Poetry
Feb 08, 2024
The Reed of God and the Potent Emptiness of Advent
Dec 22, 2023
Childish or Childlike: Labyrinth and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on Growing Up
Dec 10, 2023
The Mystery and Manners of Flannery O’Connor
Oct 26, 2023
The Sublime Mystery of Thin Places: Numinous Experiences and Liminal Spaces
Oct 07, 2023
Rest and Recreation: Holidays and the Opportunity for Holiness
Sep 22, 2023
BONUS Episode: Catholic Womanhood - Youth 2000 Talk
Aug 29, 2023
Making Whole: Finding Healing in Community and Nature
May 26, 2023
Animating Creation: The Natural Landscapes of Studio Ghibli
Apr 22, 2023
[Audio Fixed] “Seeing is both good and perilous”: Information and Action in The Lord of the Rings
Apr 17, 2023
The Doom and Gift of Men: Stories of Death and the Desire for Immortality
Apr 01, 2023
Celebrating Irish Saints: Miracles, Myths and Modern Perspectives
Mar 11, 2023
Something Inside: Hope and the Inner Life in The Shawshank Redemption
Feb 24, 2023
Entering the Anglo-Saxon Seasons: Poetry, Liturgy and Festivity, with Eleanor Parker
Feb 10, 2023
Let Nothing You Dismay: The Ghost of Christmas Storytelling
Dec 20, 2022
Do You Reject Satan?: The Godfather and the Path to Power, with Katie Marquette
Nov 19, 2022
Over the Garden Wall: Finding Dante in the Unknown
Oct 28, 2022
Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Oct 14, 2022
Autumnal Envy: A Season of Longing and Desire
Sep 29, 2022
Beauty in Brideshead Revisited: The Holy and the Hedonistic
Sep 16, 2022
The Golden Age of Musicals and the Desire for Beauty
Jun 04, 2022
The Universal Truths of C.S. Lewis, with Michael Ward
May 21, 2022
The World Turned Upside Down: Chesterton’s use of Paradox in Manalive and St. Francis of Assisi
Apr 16, 2022
The Silent Knight: Elizabeth Lev on St. Joseph in Art through the Ages
Apr 03, 2022
The Grace of Gardening: Encountering Christ in Creation
Mar 11, 2022
Jane Austen’s Moral Imagination: A Conversation with Haley Stewart
Feb 26, 2022
The Time That is Given Us: Productivity and Leisure in the Modern Age
Feb 12, 2022
The Humility and Extravagance of Christmas
Dec 23, 2021
Stories that Endure: Reading the Classics
Dec 10, 2021
Meaningful Remembrance: The Great War and its Commemoration
Nov 16, 2021
Doubles and Duplicity: Gothic Themes in The Woman in White Featuring Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Oct 22, 2021
Stranger Things in Stranger Times: Navigating Nostalgia in the Digital Age
Oct 11, 2021
Tolkien: A Thoroughly Modern Medievalist featuring Dr. Holly Ordway
Sep 24, 2021
Dante and Creation: Encountering God in Eden, Featuring Matthew Rothaus Moser
Sep 08, 2021
Keeping Your Word: Unfashionable Virtues in North and South
Jun 04, 2021
Lost in the Cosmos: Exploring Modernity and the Self with Walker Percy
May 21, 2021
Heavenly and Hellish Creatures in The Great Divorce feat. Pints with Jack co-host David Bates
May 07, 2021
Kingship in Camelot: The Quest for Justice in Arthurian Myth
Apr 23, 2021
The Cross and the Beatitudes: The Sermon on Mount Calvary
Mar 26, 2021
The Prince of Egypt: An Epic in Animation
Mar 12, 2021
Martyrdom and its Moral Dilemmas
Feb 26, 2021
The Heavenly Banquet and the Fictional Feasts that Make it a Reality
Feb 12, 2021
A Pilgrimage in Paintings: Tissot's “Life of Christ"
Dec 18, 2020
Books of Revelation: The Grace and Burden in Moments of Epiphany
Dec 04, 2020
Dracula: The Presence of Evil and the Power of Sacramentals
Nov 13, 2020
Nostalgia or Nihilism: The Need for Historical Honesty
Oct 30, 2020
Piranesi: Science and Stewardship in God’s Creation
Oct 16, 2020
The Lost Art of Medieval Preaching: A Dominican Perspective
Oct 02, 2020
Elizabeth Lev: Founding Christian Art and Redeeming Roman Myth
Sep 18, 2020
The Sense of Longing in The Wind in the Willows
Sep 03, 2020
Howl's Moving Castle and the Fascination of Fairy Stories
May 29, 2020
Sophie Scholl: Christian Conscience and the White Rose Resistance
May 15, 2020
Easter in Old English Poetic Imagination
Apr 27, 2020
Sacred Songs for Sorrowful Times: Music for Holy Week
Apr 07, 2020
Roald Dahl: Delight and Darkness
Mar 20, 2020
Time and T.S. Eliot: Modern and Eternal Poetry
Mar 07, 2020
Springing into the Season
Feb 21, 2020
Vermeer and the Hidden Catholicism of his Art
Feb 07, 2020
Little Women: Home as the School of Love
Jan 24, 2020
Christmas Carols: Heaven and Nature Sing
Dec 27, 2019
Behold Your Mother: Some Favourite Marian Devotions
Dec 12, 2019
Green Gables and the Great War
Nov 22, 2019
The Saints: More than Just Imaginary Friends
Nov 01, 2019
Cartoon Saloon: Celtic and Christian Coexistence
Oct 17, 2019
John Henry Newman: Sainthood through Friendship
Oct 04, 2019
Saints and Slavers: Stories of Missionaries
Sep 18, 2019
Jane Austen: The Freedom and Sacrifice of Moral Integrity
Sep 06, 2019
The Infamy and Insight of The Young Pope
Jun 14, 2019
The Flaw of Perfection in Female Protagonists
May 31, 2019
From St Peter's to Notre Dame: The Sacred Art of Architecture
May 17, 2019
Detective Fiction and the Mystery of Faith
May 03, 2019
Violent Films and Catholic Audiences
Apr 19, 2019
Tolkien and the Women of Middle Earth
Apr 05, 2019
The Beauty and Ugliness of the Cross
Mar 22, 2019
Restoring Catholic Weirdness
Mar 08, 2019
The Fall of Chivalry in Arthurian Legend
Feb 22, 2019
Living the Liturgical Year
Feb 08, 2019
The Sanctity of Smallness
Jan 27, 2019
Monsters and Morality in Romanticism
Jan 13, 2019
Advent and Waiting in the Dark
Dec 16, 2018
A Beginning and Introduction
Dec 06, 2018