Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast

How do we envision our highest ideals and deepest commitments? How do we name and express our most expansive sense of who we are? The Faith and Imagination podcast explores these questions by conversing with ...more

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November 21, 2022
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Spiritual, Healing Perception in Nature, with guest Douglas Christie, Loyola Marymount University

Douglas E. Christie is Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism, Loss, and the...

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November 07, 2022
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Highlighted Episode: Art as a Window into the Divine, with guest Katie Kresser, Seattle Pacific University

This week we highlight a past episode of our Faith and Imagination Podcast. Katie Kresser is a Professor of Art History at Seattle Pacific...

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October 31, 2022
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The Religious Turn of One of America’s Finest Poets, Denise Levertov, with Cristina Gámez-Fernández, University of Córdoba

Denise Levertov was an outstanding poet who became one of the finest religious poets of the twentieth century, or any century. Cristina Gámez-Fernández is...

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October 24, 2022
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Life to the Whole Being: The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor, with Matthew Wickman and George Handley, BYU

Matthew Wickman is a professor of English at Brigham Young University. He served as the founding director of the BYU Humanities Center the past...

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October 17, 2022
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The Mysticism of Ordinary Life, with guest Andrew Prevot, Boston College

Andrew Prevot is an associate professor of Theology at Boston College. He is the author of the award-winning book Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality...

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October 10, 2022
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Environmental Lamentation and Hope in American Cultural History, with guest John Gatta, Sewanee: The University of the South

John Gatta is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and University of the South, Sewanee. At that latter institution he held,...

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