Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet

September 16, 2024 00:58:58
Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Ep. 95: God’s Risk in Creation, with Jane Clark Scharl, Poet

Sep 16 2024 | 00:58:58

/

Show Notes

The concluding poem from Jane Clark Scharl’s 2024 debut collection Ponds addresses the risk God takes in creating a world that can be almost mesmerizingly beautiful – a risk, Scharl writes, that “entices [us] to look / no further than” the world itself, to miss perceiving God through the radiance of what strikes our senses. Scharl is a playwright and critic as well as a poet, and we speak today about perceiving the divine by way of nature, about familial relationships, and about seeking signs of God’s presence in a world that, while beautiful, sometimes resists granting those wishes.

Other Episodes

Episode 0

February 22, 2021 00:47:01
Episode Cover

Spiritual Meaning-Making During the Pandemic, with guest David Perrin, St. Jerome’s University

Feelings of self-transcendence, of connectedness to God, others, and the world, are widely seen as a principal feature of spiritual well-being. So when pandemic...

Listen

Episode 0

December 11, 2023 00:38:11
Episode Cover

“Why I Am a Churchgoer,” with Mischa Willett, Seattle Pacific University

This is the first episode we have released in three months. We were having technological difficulties with the system that distributes the podcasts, and...

Listen

Episode 0

January 31, 2022 00:49:01
Episode Cover

Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit, with guest Yolanda Pierce, Howard University

Yolanda Pierce is professor and dean of the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. In 2016 she served as Founding Director of...

Listen