Twentieth-Century Literature and Holiness with Jessica Hooten Wilson

Meditations on Henry Vaughan's "The Night": "There is in God, some say, / A deep but dazzling darkness..." What does Vaughan's famous line mean? Let's think about this beautiful poem and its Welsh 17th-century author together. by Old Books with Grace

20 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 4-6 Vol II with Carol Irwin: Welcome to Week 6 of the Summer Old Book Club and perhaps the first ever podcast episode featuring a grandmother and her granddaughter discussing Persuasion in great detail! Join Dr. Grace Hamman and her 86 year-old Grama, Carol Irwin, as they think ... by Old Books with Grace

67 min listen

From the Endless Knot to the Green Girdle: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pt. IV: At last, Gawain comes to the mysterious, terrifying Green Chapel. What happens next? Find out, meditate on the results, and rejoice over the wonderful poetry of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with Grace. by Old Books with Grace

26 min listen

A Lovely Short Intro to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Want to think about a spooky, wonderful medieval poem together for October? This episode kicks off a series on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a poem about magic, humanity, creatureliness, and failure written in the fourteenth century by an anonymou... by Old Books with Grace

18 min listen

Talking Austen and L‘Engle With Haley Stewart: Grace Hamman welcomes podcaster, speaker, and fellow mom writer Haley Stewart of Carrots for Michaelmas and Fountains of Carrots. Haley and Grace chat Jane Austen, Madeleine L'Engle, faith, and the challenging vocations of being writers and mothers (... by Old Books with Grace

61 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 7-9 Vol. I with Marisa Tualla: Welcome to week three of reading Jane Austen's Persuasion with the Summer Old Book Club! Today, Grace chats with her old friend Marisa Tualla, a math curriculum specialist, about ch. 7-9 of vol. I. They talk Jane Austen on gender, loneliness, the fas... by Old Books with Grace

66 min listen

A Brief Introduction to Jane Austen: We all know who Jane Austen is. But a little more context and background can help us to better understand her writing and her world, before we enter into her final novel, Persuasion. Join the Summer Old Book Club! by Old Books with Grace

18 min listen

Welcome to Old Books With Grace!: I'm Dr. Grace Hamman and I want to explore the intersections of literature and theology with you. Old books speak to us and allow us to break out of our hidden assumptions and biases about the way the world works. Today, I'm introducing us to the wor... by Old Books with Grace

21 min listen

Dabbling in Old Words: Whole: Feeling broken, distended, fragmented? Me too. This episode meditates upon spiritual and bodily wholeness, via the ancient origins of the word "whole" and supplemented by Augustine of Hippo. by Old Books with Grace

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Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 1-3 Vol. II with Dr. Jessica Hines: Grace welcomes Dr. Jessica Hines to the fifth week of the Summer Old Book Club discussing Jane Austen's Persuasion. Grace and Jessica talk about the mysterious Mr. Elliot, the perplexities of Lady Russell (do we like her or not??), Anne's move to Bat... by Old Books with Grace

76 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Chapters 1-3 Vol. 1 with Dr. Jessica Ward: Welcome to the Summer Old Book Club with Jane Austen's Persuasion! Grace and Dr. Jessica Ward, an English professor at Mercy College in NYC and one of Grace's grad school buddies, talk about our introduction to the characters, Austen's cutting humor,... by Old Books with Grace

59 min listen

The Coventry Carol: An Advent Meditation: In this episode, we encounter the Coventry Carol, which is the opposite of a holly, jolly Christmas song. It comes from medieval mystery plays, and is a lullaby sung by the mothers of the baby boys about to be killed by King Herod as the Holy Family ... by Old Books with Grace

23 min listen

T.S. Eliot's "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees": Merry Christmas from Old Books With Grace! In this episode, I think about the great poet and thinker T.S. Eliot's midcentury poem, "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees," and the darkness and light of this season. Check out the text on oldbookswithgrac... by Old Books with Grace

15 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 10-12, Vol I with Chelsea Swanson: Dr. Grace Hamman and her special guest and best friend since kindergarten, Chelsea Swanson, lose track of time as they endlessly dissect three chapters of Persuasion that perhaps have the most incredible emotional and interpersonal subtext of all cha... by Old Books with Grace

80 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 10-12 Vol. II with Scott Hamman: Dr. Grace Hamman and her special guest this week, her husband Scott, discuss love, communication, resurrection, learning how to learn, and gush over Austen's profundity in depicting relationships in Persuasion. They also freeze in slight horror and p... by Old Books with Grace

70 min listen

Austen's Persuasion: Ch. 4-6 Vol. 1 with John Irwin: It's week two of the Summer Old Book Club! Read alongside Grace and her brother, John Irwin, as they discuss chapters 4-6 of volume I of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Grace and John talk about meeting Captain Wentworth (in memory) for the first time, Jan... by Old Books with Grace

70 min listen

On Virtues and Fiction with Karen Swallow Prior: Grace welcomes Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, professor and author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. We talk about some of my favorite questions: How can virtue be learned and practiced through stories? How do narratives of the... by Old Books with Grace

48 min listen

Breaking Medieval Stereotypes with Beth Allison Barr: Beth Allison Barr, author of Making Biblical Womanhood, is here and we are talking about history and how it shapes us, resisting the urge to impose our norms and ideas back onto the past, about medieval women, gender-bending medieval saints, good pla... by Old Books with Grace

60 min listen

Praying with Puritans with Robert Elmer: Grace welcomes Robert Elmer, the editor of Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans and Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church, the first two books in the Prayers of the Church series from Lexham Press. Grace, a medievalist slightly suspicious ... by Old Books with Grace

39 min listen

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: An Advent Meditation: Grace meditates on the robustly theological hymn by Charles Wesley, music by Felix Mendelssohn, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." What do we make of the gift of weakness in God laying his glory by? What do we make of the gift of our own weakness? by Old Books with Grace

23 min listen

Thinking of Jesus as Our Mother With Shannon K. Evans: Shannon Evans, author of Rewilding Motherhood, joins Grace to talk about the powerful and poignant image of Jesus as our Mother. How does this ancient metaphor affect our lives today? Shannon and Grace talk Julian of Norwich, motherhood, and the theo... by Old Books with Grace

49 min listen

Art & the Annunciation with Victoria Emily Jones: Victoria Emily Jones of Art & Theology discusses some wonderful art depicting the Annunciation, from poetry to visual art, from medieval to modern day, with Grace. Victoria and Grace unpack the multilayered meaning of these beautiful works in their e... by Old Books with Grace

59 min listen

A Beheading at a Feast: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pt. 1: Ever since the siege ceased at Troy, betrayal and treachery has ruled the forebears of Sir Gawain... so we are plunged into the fantastical fourteenth-century masterpiece, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Let's meet Arthur, Guinevere, a host of secon... by Old Books with Grace

23 min listen

Contemplative Reading and Thomas Merton with Sophfronia Scott: Grace welcomes Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk, and director of the MFA creative writing program at Alma College. Sophfronia and Grace discuss learning to have meaningful dialogue with books as you read, even when they were writte... by Old Books with Grace

47 min listen

Enjoying Elizabeth Goudge with Julie Witmer: Have you heard of the midcentury fiction writer, Elizabeth Goudge, author of classics like The Little White Horse or The Scent of Water? Julie Witmer, founder of the Elizabeth Goudge Book Club, comes on Old Books with Grace to talk about Goudge's lif... by Old Books with Grace

43 min listen

The Beauty of Old English with Eleanor Parker: Dr. Eleanor Parker joins Grace to discuss the beauty of Old English and her delightful new book on the Anglo-Saxon calendar year, Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year. Eleanor Parker is Lecturer in Medieval English Literature... by Old Books with Grace

39 min listen

Twentieth-Century Literature and Holiness with Jessica Hooten Wilson: This week, Grace welcomes Jessica Hooten Wilson to Old Books With Grace, to chat about her new book, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints, and the power of literature to reveal the subtleties of the goo... by Old Books with Grace

42 min listen

O Come O Come Emmanuel: An Advent Meditation: Learn about the ancient history of the song, "O Come O Come Emmanuel" and meditate on its beauty and meaning just in time for Advent with Dr. Grace Hamman. by Old Books with Grace

59 min listen

The Delights of Dickens with Gina Dalfonzo: Grace welcomes Gina Dalfonzo, editor of The Gospel in Dickens (Plough Publishing House) and founder and editor of Dickensblog, to chat all things Charles Dickens. What is the appeal of this wordy writer (whom, as Gina reminds us, was NOT paid by the ... by Old Books with Grace

57 min listen

On Beauty and Literature with Sarah Clarkson: Beauty is just as significant to our spiritual and moral lives as truth and goodness. Sarah Clarkson has often found this beauty in literature. Grace welcomes Sarah, author of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks Into Our Darkness, to disc... by Old Books with Grace

54 min listen

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