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Episode 26: Q&A and Current Reads with Peter Leithart and James Wood Dec 30, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood answer some of your questions, closing the episode with a discussion of what they have been reading.
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Episode 25: Living in Wonder | A Conversation with Rod Dreher Nov 26, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Rod Dreher about his recent work, Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age.
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Rod Dreher
Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age
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About Rod Dreher
Rod Dreher is a journalist and author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Little Way of Ruthie Leming (2013), The Benedict Option (2017), and Live Not by Lies (2020). His work covers the intersection of religion, culture, and politics. Dreher has worked as a columnist for the New York Post, the Dallas Morning News, National Review, the American Conservative, the European Conservative, and other publications, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and Time. He is an Orthodox Christian. A native of Louisiana, Dreher lives in Budapest, where he is a senior fellow at The Danube Institute.
More Books by Dreher
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming

Episode 24: Micro-Christendoms and Local Government, with Tim Nichols and Joe Anderson Oct 31, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Tim Nichols and Joe Anderson about their work in Englewood, Colorado.
Joe Anderson is a Pastor at Christ the Anchor church in Englewood, Colorado. For the last 10 years, Joe has led the local pastors prayer group and organized meetings between the pastors and local government officials that have led to several collaborative initiatives between the Church in Englewood and the city government. Additionally, since 2019, Joe has served on City Council in Englewood.

Tim Nichols cut his teeth in ministry teaching at the seminary level while pastoring a small church plant in the California desert, frequently getting whiplash in the transitions between the two. He presently teaches middle school at Hammersmith School, a homeschool hybrid program, operates a bodywork practice, teaches martial arts, and serves in pastoral roles at Christ the Anchor church and at Centerpoint Church, an outreach to the homeless community in Englewood.

Together, they've founded Headwaters Christian Resources, a nonprofit devoted to local ministry and producing resources for the broader church, and written the Victorious Bible curriculum for middle school, Loving: Spiritual Exercises in Tangibly Loving your Literal Neighbors, and an assortment of smaller projects.

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Peter Leithart's article on Micro-Christendoms can be found HERE.
Tim and Joe's Theopolis Conversation on "Proclamation" can be found HERE.
Click HERE for Tim Nichols' excellent articles at Theopolis.

Episode 23: God and the City - D.C. Schindler Returns! Oct 01, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with D.C. Schindler about his recent work, God and the City, and how to think about politics ontologically.
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D.C. Schindler
God and the City: An Essay in Political Metaphysics
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About Dr. Schindler
Dr. Schindler’s work is concerned above all with shedding light on contemporary cultural challenges and philosophical questions by drawing on the resources of the classical Christian tradition. His principal thematic focus is metaphysics and philosophical anthropology, but he also works in political philosophy, phenomenology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, and philosophical theology. His main historical areas are ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and Neoplatonism), German philosophy (especially Hegel and Heidegger), and Catholic philosophy (especially Aquinas and 20th Century Thomism).

Dr. Schindler studied the Great Books as an undergraduate at Notre Dame, received a Master’s degree in theology at the John Paul II Institute, and then completed his education with a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in philosophy at The Catholic University of America. After teaching for twelve years at Villanova University, first as a teaching fellow in philosophy and then as a founding member of the Humanities Department, Dr. Schindler returned to Washington, DC to teach philosophy courses at the Institute. He has published more than a dozen books—including two volumes of a planned trilogy on the nature of freedom with the University of Notre Dame Press and a Robert Spaemann Reader with Oxford University Press—and more than 70 articles and book chapters, and his work has been translated into six languages. He is an editor of the English-language edition of Communio: International Catholic Review, and a board member of The Review of Metaphysics and New Polity: A Journal of Post-Liberal Thought; he is a translator of books and articles from French and German; he is a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at CUA and served on the Executive Council of the American Catholic Philosophical Association; and he has been invited to deliver named annual lectures in a variety of venues, including the Thomas Aquinas Lecture at four universities and colleges, the Bitar Memorial Lecture series at Geneva College, the John Paul II Lecture at the University of Dallas, the Lorenzo Albacete Lecture in New York City, and the Areopagus Lecture at Mars Hill Audio Journal in Charlottesville, VA.

Episode 22: Architecture, Urbanism, & the Sacred - A Conversation with Philip Bess Aug 28, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Philip Bess about architecture, cities, and his book titled Till We Have Built Jerusalem.

Philip Bess is Professor of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame.

Episode 21: A Conversation with David Dusenbury Jul 30, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with David Dusenbury about his books "I Judge No One" and "The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History."
David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, Times Literary Supplement contributor and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. He is also Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.
Titles from Dusenbury:
I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus
The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History

Articles by George Steiner mentioned in this episode:
The Scandal of Revelation
Two Suppers

Episode 20: Hell Shall Not Prevail (A Field Recording with James Wood and Peter Leithart) Jun 28, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood sit down in person to discuss recent podcast guests, as well as the new book "Hell Shall Not Prevail," which is on sale now from Athanasius Press.
Forgive the poor audio quality in this episode, as it was not recording with our typical microphone setup.

Episode 19: Family Unfriendly | A Conversation with Tim Carney May 31, 2024

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James Wood and Peter Leithart talk with Tim Carney about ways that today's America is unfriendly to families.
Timothy Carney is a father of six children, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner.
Tim and his wife, Katie, have raised their family in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. He grew up with three older brothers in Greenwich Village and later in Pelham, New York.
Pick up Family Unfriendly HERE.
He is also the author of Alienated America, The Big Ripoff, and Obamanomics.

Episode 18: Mortal Goods | A Conversation with Ephraim Radner Apr 30, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood talk with Dr. Ephraim Radner about his latest book, Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty.
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Ephraim Radner (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, an evangelical seminary of the Anglican tradition at the University of Toronto, where he teaches both ministerial and doctoral students. He is the author and editor of several books on ecclesiology, ecumenism, the nature of Scripture, natural theology, pneumatology, and the character of the human creature. A former church worker in Burundi and an Anglican priest, he has also served several parishes in the United States, including inner-city Cleveland. He has also been active in the affairs of the global Anglican Communion. He continues to visit, consult, and teach in various parts of the world, including Asia and Africa, and comments on cultural and political topics as they relate to the Christian Church’s life.

Episode 17: Politics and the Earthly City | A Conversation with Dr. Veronica Ogle Mar 26, 2024

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Peter Leithart and James Wood discuss Augustine, politics, and the earthly city with Dr. Veronica Ogle.
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Dr. Ogle is the author of Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine's City of God, and is Assistant Professor of Political and Social Thought and the Augustinian Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Villanova University.

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