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The Common Reader
Frances Wilson: T.S. Eliot is stealing my baked beans.

The Common Reader

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 65:41


Frances Wilson has written biographies of Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, D.H. Lawrence, and, most recently, Muriel Spark. I thought Electric Spark was excellent. In my review, I wrote: “Wilson has done far more than string the facts together. She has created a strange and vivid portrait of one of the most curious of twentieth century novelists.” In this interview, we covered questions like why Thomas De Quincey is more widely read, why D.H. Lawrence's best books aren't his novels, Frances's conversion to spookiness, what she thinks about a whole range of modern biographers, literature and parasocial relationships, Elizabeth Bowen, George Meredith, and plenty about Muriel Spark.Here are two brief extracts. There is a full transcript below.Henry: De Quincey and Lawrence were the people you wrote about before Muriel Spark, and even though they seem like three very different people, but in their own way, they're all a little bit mad, aren't they?Frances: Yes, that is, I think, something that they have in common. It's something that I'm drawn to. I like writing about difficult people. I don't think I could write about anyone who wasn't difficult. I like difficult people in general. I like the fact that they pose a puzzle and they're hard to crack, and that their difficulty is laid out in their work and as a code. I like tackling really, really stubborn personalities as well. Yes, they were all a bit mad. The madness was what fuelled their journeys without doubt.Henry: This must make it very hard as a biographer. Is there always a code to be cracked, or are you sometimes dealing with someone who is slippery and protean and uncrackable?And.Henry: People listening will be able to tell that Spark is a very spooky person in several different ways. She had what I suppose we would call spiritual beliefs to do with ghosts and other sorts of things. You had a sort of conversion of your own while writing this book, didn't you?Frances: Yes, I did. [laughs] Every time I write a biography, I become very, very, very immersed in who I'm writing about. I learned this from Richard Holmes, who I see as a method biographer. He Footsteps his subjects. He becomes his subjects. I think I recognized when I first read Holmes's Coleridge, when I was a student, that this was how I also wanted to live. I wanted to live inside the minds of the people that I wrote about, because it was very preferable to live inside my own mind. Why not live inside the mind of someone really, really exciting, one with genius?What I felt with Spark wasn't so much that I was immersed by-- I wasn't immersed by her. I felt actually possessed by her. I think this is the Spark effect. I think a lot of her friends felt like this. I think that her lovers possibly felt like this. There is an extraordinary force to her character, which absolutely lives on, even though she's dead, but only recently dead. The conversion I felt, I think, was that I have always been a very enlightenment thinker, very rational, very scientific, very Freudian in my approach to-- I will acknowledge the unconscious but no more.By the time I finished with Spark, I'm pure woo-woo now.TranscriptHenry: Today, I am talking to Frances Wilson. Frances is a biographer. Her latest book, Electric Spark, is a biography of the novelist Muriel Spark, but she has also written about Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, DH Lawrence and others. Frances, welcome.Frances Wilson: Thank you so much for having me on.Henry: Why don't more people read Thomas De Quincey's work?Frances: [laughs] Oh, God. We're going right into the deep end.[laughter]Frances: I think because there's too much of it. When I chose to write about Thomas De Quincey, I just followed one thread in his writing because Thomas De Quincey was an addict. One of the things he was addicted to was writing. He wrote far, far, far too much. He was a professional hack. He was a transcendental hack, if you like, because all of his writing he did while on opium, which made the sentences too long and too high and very, very hard to read.When I wrote about him, I just followed his interest in murder. He was fascinated by murder as a fine art. The title of one of his best essays is On Murder as One of the Fine Arts. I was also interested in his relationship with Wordsworth. I twinned those together, which meant cutting out about 97% of the rest of his work. I think people do read his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. I think that's a cult text. It was the memoir, if you want to call it a memoir, that kick-started the whole pharmaceutical memoir business on drugs.It was also the first addict's memoir and the first recovery memoir, and I'd say also the first misery memoir. He's very much at the root of English literary culture. We're all De Quincey-an without knowing it, is my argument.Henry: Oh, no, I fully agree. That's what surprises me, that they don't read him more often.Frances: I know it's a shame, isn't it? Of all the Romantic Circle, he's the one who's the most exciting to read. Also, Lamb is wonderfully exciting to read as well, but Lamb's a tiny little bit more grounded than De Quincey, who was literally not grounded. He's floating in an opium haze above you.[laughter]Henry: What I liked about your book was the way you emphasized the book addiction, not just the opium addiction. It is shocking the way he piled up chests full of books and notebooks, and couldn't get into the room because there were too many books in there. He was [crosstalk].Frances: Yes. He had this in common with Muriel Spark. He was a hoarder, but in a much more chaotic way than Spark, because, as you say, he piled up rooms with papers and books until he couldn't get into the room, and so just rented another room. He was someone who had no money at all. The no money he had went on paying rent for rooms, storing what we would be giving to Oxfam, or putting in the recycling bin. Then he'd forget that he was paying rent on all these rooms filled with his mountains of paper. The man was chaos.Henry: What is D.H. Lawrence's best book?Frances: Oh, my argument about Lawrence is that we've gone very badly wrong in our reading of him, in seeing him primarily as a novelist and only secondarily as an essayist and critic and short story writer, and poet. This is because of F.R. Leavis writing that celebration of him called D.H. Lawrence: Novelist, because novels are not the best of Lawrence. I think the best of his novels is absolutely, without doubt, Sons and Lovers. I think we should put the novels in the margins and put in the centre, the poems, travel writing.Absolutely at the centre of the centre should be his studies in classic American literature. His criticism was- We still haven't come to terms with it. It was so good. We haven't heard all of Lawrence's various voices yet. When Lawrence was writing, contemporaries didn't think of Lawrence as a novelist at all. It was anyone's guess what he was going to come out with next. Sometimes it was a novel [laughs] and it was usually a rant about-- sometimes it was a prophecy. Posterity has not treated Lawrence well in any way, but I think where we've been most savage to him is in marginalizing his best writing.Henry: The short fiction is truly extraordinary.Frances: Isn't it?Henry: I always thought Lawrence was someone I didn't want to read, and then I read the short fiction, and I was just obsessed.Frances: It's because in the short fiction, he doesn't have time to go wrong. I think brevity was his perfect length. Give him too much space, and you know he's going to get on his soapbox and start ranting, start mansplaining. He was a terrible mansplainer. Mansplaining his versions of what had gone wrong in the world. It is like a drunk at the end of a too-long dinner party, and you really want to just bundle him out. Give him only a tiny bit of space, and he comes out with the perfection that is his writing.Henry: De Quincey and Lawrence were the people you wrote about before Muriel Spark, and even though they seem like three very different people, but in their own way, they're all a little bit mad, aren't they?Frances: Yes, that is, I think, something that they have in common. It's something that I'm drawn to. I like writing about difficult people. I don't think I could write about anyone who wasn't difficult. I like difficult people in general. I like the fact that they pose a puzzle and they're hard to crack, and that their difficulty is laid out in their work and as a code. I like tackling really, really stubborn personalities as well. Yes, they were all a bit mad. The madness was what fuelled their journeys without doubt.Henry: This must make it very hard as a biographer. Is there always a code to be cracked, or are you sometimes dealing with someone who is slippery and protean and uncrackable?Frances: I think that the way I approach biography is that there is a code to crack, but I'm not necessarily concerned with whether I crack it or not. I think it's just recognizing that there's a hell of a lot going on in the writing and that, in certain cases and not in every case at all, the best way of exploring the psyche of the writer and the complexity of the life is through the writing, which is a argument for psycho biography, which isn't something I necessarily would argue for, because it can be very, very crude.I think with the writers I choose, there is no option. Muriel Spark argued for this as well. She said in her own work as a biographer, which was really very, very strong. She was a biographer before she became a novelist. She thought hard about biography and absolutely in advance of anyone else who thought about biography, she said, "Of course, the only way we can approach the minds of writers is through their work, and the writer's life is encoded in the concerns of their work."When I was writing about Muriel Spark, I followed, as much as I could, to the letter, her own theories of biography, believing that that was part of the code that she left. She said very, very strong and very definitive things about what biography was about and how to write a biography. I tried to follow those rules.Henry: Can we play a little game where I say the names of some biographers and you tell me what you think of them?Frances: Oh my goodness. Okay.Henry: We're not trying to get you into trouble. We just want some quick opinions. A.N. Wilson.Frances: I think he's wonderful as a biographer. I think he's unzipped and he's enthusiastic and he's unpredictable and he's often off the rails. I think his Goethe biography-- Have you read the Goethe biography?Henry: Yes, I thought that was great.Frances: It's just great, isn't it? It's so exciting. I like the way that when he writes about someone, it's almost as if he's memorized the whole of their work.Henry: Yes.Frances: You don't imagine him sitting at a desk piled with books and having to score through his marginalia. It sits in his head, and he just pours it down on a page. I'm always excited by an A.N. Wilson biography. He is one of the few biographers who I would read regardless of who the subject was.Henry: Yes.Frances: I just want to read him.Henry: He does have good range.Frances: He absolutely does have good range.Henry: Selina Hastings.Frances: I was thinking about Selina Hastings this morning, funnily enough, because I had been talking to people over the weekend about her Sybil Bedford biography and why that hadn't lifted. She wrote a very excitingly good life of Nancy Mitford and then a very unexcitingly not good life of Sybil Bedford. I was interested in why the Sybil Bedford simply hadn't worked. I met people this weekend who were saying the same thing, that she was a very good biographer who had just failed [laughs] to give us anything about Sybil Bedford.I think what went wrong in that biography was that she just could not give us her opinions. It's as if she just withdrew from her subject as if she was writing a Wikipedia entry. There were no opinions at all. What the friends I was talking to said was that she just fell out with her subject during the book. That's what happened. She stopped being interested in her. She fell out with her and therefore couldn't be bothered. That's what went wrong.Henry: Interesting. I think her Evelyn Waugh biography is superb.Frances: Yes, I absolutely agree. She was on fire until this last one.Henry: That's one of the best books on Waugh, I think.Frances: Yes.Henry: Absolutely magical.Frances: I also remember, it's a very rare thing, of reading a review of it by Hilary Mantel saying that she had not read a biography that had been as good, ever, as Selina Hastings' on Evelyn Waugh. My goodness, that's high praise, isn't it?Henry: Yes, it is. It is. I'm always trying to push that book on people. Richard Holmes.Frances: He's my favourite. He's the reason that I'm a biographer at all. I think his Coleridge, especially the first volume of the two-volume Coleridge, is one of the great books. It left me breathless when I read it. It was devastating. I also think that his Johnson and Savage book is one of the great books. I love Footsteps as well, his account of the books he didn't write in Footsteps. I think he has a strange magic. When Muriel Spark talked about certain writers and critics having a sixth literary sense, which meant that they tuned into language and thought in a way that the rest of us don't, I think that Richard Holmes does have that. I think he absolutely has it in relation to Coleridge. I'm longing for his Tennyson to come out.Henry: Oh, I know. I know.Frances: Oh, I just can't wait. I'm holding off on reading Tennyson until I've got Holmes to help me read him. Yes, he is quite extraordinary.Henry: I would have given my finger to write the Johnson and Savage book.Frances: Yes, I know. I agree. How often do you return to it?Henry: Oh, all the time. All the time.Frances: Me too.Henry: Michael Holroyd.Frances: Oh, that's interesting, Michael Holroyd, because I think he's one of the great unreads. I think he's in this strange position of being known as a greatest living biographer, but nobody's read him on Augustus John. [laughs] I haven't read his biographies cover to cover because they're too long and it's not in my subject area, but I do look in them, and they're novelistic in their wit and complexity. His sentences are very, very, very entertaining, and there's a lot of freight in each paragraph. I hope that he keeps selling.I love his essays as well, and also, I think that he has been a wonderful ambassador for biography. He's very, very supportive of younger biographers, which not every biographer is, but I know he's been very supportive of younger biographers and is incredibly approachable.Henry: Let's do a few Muriel Spark questions. Why was the Book of Job so important to Muriel Spark?Frances: I think she liked it because it was rogue, because it was the only book of the Bible that wasn't based on any evidence, it wasn't based on any truth. It was a fictional book, and she liked fiction sitting in the middle of fact. That was one of her main things, as all Spark lovers know. She liked the fact that there was this work of pure imagination and extraordinarily powerful imagination sitting in the middle of the Old Testament, and also, she thought it was an absolutely magnificent poem.She saw herself primarily as a poet, and she responded to it as a poem, which, of course, it is. Also, she liked God in it. She described Him as the Incredible Hulk [laughs] and she liked His boastfulness. She enjoyed, as I do, difficult personalities, and she liked the fact that God had such an incredibly difficult personality. She liked the fact that God boasted and boasted and boasted, "I made this and I made that," to Job, but also I think she liked the fact that you hear God's voice.She was much more interested in voices than she was in faces. The fact that God's voice comes out of the burning bush, I think it was an image for her of early radio, this voice speaking, and she liked the fact that what the voice said was tricksy and touchy and impossibly arrogant. He gives Moses all these instructions to lead the Israelites, and Moses says, "But who shall I say sent me? Who are you?" He says, "I am who I am." [laughs] She thought that was completely wonderful. She quotes that all the time about herself. She says, "I know it's a bit large quoting God, but I am who I am." [laughs]Henry: That disembodied voice is very important to her fiction.Frances: Yes.Henry: It's the telephone in Memento Mori.Frances: Yes.Henry: Also, to some extent, tell me what you think of this, the narrator often acts like that.Frances: Like this disembodied voice?Henry: Yes, like you're supposed to feel like you're not quite sure who's telling you this or where you're being told it from. That's why it gets, like in The Ballad of Peckham Rye or something, very weird.Frances: Yes. I'm waiting for the PhD on Muriel Sparks' narrators. Maybe it's being done as we speak, but she's very, very interested in narrators and the difference between first-person and third-person. She was very keen on not having warm narrators, to put it mildly. She makes a strong argument throughout her work for the absence of the seductive narrative. Her narratives are, as we know, unbelievably seductive, but not because we are being flattered as readers and not because the narrator makes herself or himself pretty. The narrator says what they feel like saying, withholds most of what you would like them to say, plays with us, like in a Spark expression, describing her ideal narrator like a cat with a bird [laughs].Henry: I like that. Could she have been a novelist if she had not become a Catholic?Frances: No, she couldn't. The two things happened at the same time. I wonder, actually, whether she became a Catholic in order to become a novelist. It wasn't that becoming a novelist was an accidental effect of being a Catholic. The conversion was, I think, from being a biographer to a novelist rather than from being an Anglican to a Catholic. What happened is a tremendous interest. I think it's the most interesting moment in any life that I've ever written about is the moment of Sparks' conversion because it did break her life in two.She converted when she was in her mid-30s, and several things happened at once. She converted to Catholicism, she became a Catholic, she became a novelist, but she also had this breakdown. The breakdown was very much part of that conversion package. The breakdown was brought on, she says, by taking Dexys. There was slimming pills, amphetamines. She wanted to lose weight. She put on weight very easily, and her weight went up and down throughout her life.She wanted to take these diet pills, but I think she was also taking the pills because she needed to do all-nighters, because she never, ever, ever stopped working. She was addicted to writing, but also she was impoverished and she had to sell her work, and she worked all night. She was in a rush to get her writing done because she'd wasted so much of her life in her early 20s, in a bad marriage trapped in Africa. She needed to buy herself time. She was on these pills, which have terrible side effects, one of which is hallucinations.I think there were other reasons for her breakdown as well. She was very, very sensitive and I think psychologically fragile. Her mother lived in a state of mental fragility, too. She had a crash when she finished her book. She became depressed. Of course, a breakdown isn't the same as depression, but what happened to her in her breakdown was a paranoid attack rather than a breakdown. She didn't crack into nothing and then have to rebuild herself. She just became very paranoid. That paranoia was always there.Again, it's what's exciting about her writing. She was drawn to paranoia in other writers. She liked Cardinal Newman's paranoia. She liked Charlotte Brontë's paranoia, and she had paranoia. During her paranoid attack, she felt very, very interestingly, because nothing that happened in her life was not interesting, that T.S. Eliot was sending her coded messages. He was encoding these messages in his play, The Confidential Clerk, in the program notes to the play, but also in the blurbs he wrote for Faber and Faber, where he was an editor. These messages were very malign and they were encoded in anagrams.The word lived, for example, became devil. I wonder whether one of the things that happened during her breakdown wasn't that she discovered God, but that she met the devil. I don't think that that's unusual as a conversion experience. In fact, the only conversion experience she ever describes, you'll remember, is in The Girls of Slender Means, when she's describing Nicholas Farrington's conversion. That's the only conversion experience she ever describes. She says that his conversion is when he sees one of the girls leaving the burning building, holding a Schiaparelli dress. Suddenly, he's converted because he's seen a vision of evil.She says, "Conversion can be as a result of a recognition of evil, rather than a recognition of good." I think that what might have happened in this big cocktail of things that happened to her during her breakdown/conversion, is that a writer whom she had idolized, T.S. Eliot, who taught her everything that she needed to know about the impersonality of art. Her narrative coldness comes from Eliot, who thought that emotions had no place in art because they were messy, and art should be clean.I think a writer whom she had idolized, she suddenly felt was her enemy because she was converting from his church, because he was an Anglo-Catholic. He was a high Anglican, and she was leaving Anglo-Catholicism to go through the Rubicon, to cross the Rubicon into Catholicism. She felt very strongly that that is something he would not have approved of.Henry: She's also leaving poetry to become a prose writer.Frances: She was leaving his world of poetry. That's absolutely right.Henry: This is a very curious parallel because the same thing exactly happens to De Quincey with his worship of Wordsworth.Frances: You're right.Henry: They have the same obsessive mania. Then this, as you say, not quite a breakdown, but a kind of explosive mania in the break. De Quincey goes out and destroys that mossy hut or whatever it is in the orchard, doesn't he?Frances: Yes, that disgusting hut in the orchard. Yes, you're completely right. What fascinated me about De Quincey, and this was at the heart of the De Quincey book, was how he had been guided his whole life by Wordsworth. He discovered Wordsworth as a boy when he read We Are Seven, that very creepy poem about a little girl sitting on her sibling's grave, describing the sibling as still alive. For De Quincey, who had lost his very adored sister, he felt that Wordsworth had seen into his soul and that Wordsworth was his mentor and his lodestar.He worshipped Wordsworth as someone who understood him and stalked Wordsworth, pursued and stalked him. When he met him, what he discovered was a man without any redeeming qualities at all. He thought he was a dry monster, but it didn't stop him loving the work. In fact, he loved the work more and more. What threw De Quincey completely was that there was such a difference between Wordsworth, the man who had no genius, and Wordsworth, the poet who had nothing but.Eliot described it, the difference between the man who suffers and the mind which creates. What De Quincey was trying to deal with was the fact that he adulated the work, but was absolutely appalled by the man. Yes, you're right, this same experience happened to spark when she began to feel that T.S. Eliot, whom she had never met, was a malign person, but the work was still not only of immense importance to her, but the work had formed her.Henry: You see the Wasteland all over her own work and the shared Dante obsession.Frances: Yes.Henry: It's remarkably strong. She got to the point of thinking that T.S. Eliot was breaking into her house.Frances: Yes. As I said, she had this paranoid imagination, but also what fired her imagination and what repeated itself again and again in the imaginative scenarios that recur in her fiction and nonfiction is the idea of the intruder. It was the image of someone rifling around in cupboards, drawers, looking at manuscripts. This image, you first find it in a piece she wrote about finding herself completely coincidentally, staying the night during the war in the poet Louis MacNeice's house. She didn't know it was Louis MacNeice's house, but he was a poet who was very, very important to her.Spark's coming back from visiting her parents in Edinburgh in 1944. She gets talking to an au pair on the train. By the time they pull into Houston, there's an air raid, and the au pair says, "Come and spend the night at mine. My employers are away and they live nearby in St. John's Wood." Spark goes to this house and sees it's packed with books and papers, and she's fascinated by the quality of the material she finds there.She looks in all the books. She goes into the attic, and she looks at all the papers, and she asks the au pair whose house it is, and the au pair said, "Oh, he's a professor called Professor Louis MacNeice." Spark had just been reading Whitney. He's one of her favourite poets. She retells this story four times in four different forms, as non-fiction, as fiction, as a broadcast, as reflections, but the image that keeps coming back, what she can't get rid of, is the idea of herself as snooping around in this poet's study.She describes herself, in one of the versions, as trying to draw from his papers his power as a writer. She says she sniffs his pens, she puts her hands over his papers, telling herself, "I must become a writer. I must become a writer." Then she makes this weird anonymous phone call. She loved the phone because it was the most strange form of electrical device. She makes a weird anonymous phone call to an agent, saying, "I'm ringing from Louis MacNeice's house, would you like to see my manuscript?" She doesn't give her name, and the agent says yes.Now I don't believe this phone call took place. I think it's part of Sparks' imagination. This idea of someone snooping around in someone else's room was very, very powerful to her. Then she transposed it in her paranoid attack about T.S. Eliot. She transposed the image that Eliot was now in her house, but not going through her papers, but going through her food cupboards. [laughs] In her food cupboards, all she actually had was baked beans because she was a terrible cook. Part of her unwellness at that point was malnutrition. No, she thought that T.S. Eliot was spying on her. She was obsessed with spies. Spies, snoopers, blackmailers.Henry: T.S. Eliot is Stealing My Baked Beans would have been a very good title for a memoir.Frances: It actually would, wouldn't it?Henry: Yes, it'd be great.[laughter]Henry: People listening will be able to tell that Spark is a very spooky person in several different ways. She had what I suppose we would call spiritual beliefs to do with ghosts and other sorts of things. You had a sort of conversion of your own while writing this book, didn't you?Frances: Yes, I did. [laughs] Every time I write a biography, I become very, very, very immersed in who I'm writing about. I learned this from Richard Holmes, who I see as a method biographer. He Footsteps his subjects. He becomes his subjects. I think I recognized when I first read Holmes's Coleridge, when I was a student, that this was how I also wanted to live. I wanted to live inside the minds of the people that I wrote about, because it was very preferable to live inside my own mind. Why not live inside the mind of someone really, really exciting, one with genius?What I felt with Spark wasn't so much that I was immersed by-- I wasn't immersed by her. I felt actually possessed by her. I think this is the Spark effect. I think a lot of her friends felt like this. I think that her lovers possibly felt like this. There is an extraordinary force to her character, which absolutely lives on, even though she's dead, but only recently dead. The conversion I felt, I think, was that I have always been a very enlightenment thinker, very rational, very scientific, very Freudian in my approach to-- I will acknowledge the unconscious but no more.By the time I finished with Spark, I'm pure woo-woo now. Anything can happen. This is one of the reasons Spark was attracted to Catholicism because anything can happen, because it legitimizes the supernatural. I felt so strongly that the supernatural experiences that Spark had were real, that what Spark was describing as the spookiness of our own life were things that actually happened.One of the things I found very, very unsettling about her was that everything that happened to her, she had written about first. She didn't describe her experiences in retrospect. She described them as in foresight. For example, her first single authored published book, because she wrote for a while in collaboration with her lover, Derek Stanford, but her first single authored book was a biography of Mary Shelley.Henry: Great book.Frances: An absolutely wonderful book, which really should be better than any of the other Mary Shelley biographies. She completely got to Mary Shelley. Everything she described in Mary Shelley's life would then happen to Spark. For example, she described Mary Shelley as having her love letters sold. Her lover sold Mary Shelley's love letters, and Mary Shelley was then blackmailed by the person who bought them. This happened to Spark. She described Mary Shelley's closest friends all becoming incredibly jealous of her literary talent. This happened to Spark. She described trusting people who betrayed her. This happened to Spark.Spark was the first person to write about Frankenstein seriously, to treat Frankenstein as a masterpiece rather than as a one-off weird novel that is actually just the screenplay for a Hammer Horror film. This was 1951, remember. Everything she described in Frankenstein as its power is a hybrid text, described the powerful hybrid text that she would later write about. What fascinated her in Frankenstein was the relationship between the creator and the monster, and which one was the monster. This is exactly the story of her own life. I think where she is. She was really interested in art monsters and in the fact that the only powerful writers out there, the only writers who make a dent, are monsters.If you're not a monster, you're just not competing. I think Spark has always spoken about as having a monster-like quality. She says at the end of one of her short stories, Bang-bang You're Dead, "Am I an intellectual woman, or am I a monster?" It's the question that is frequently asked of Spark. I think she worked so hard to monsterize herself. Again, she learnt this from Elliot. She learnt her coldness from Elliot. She learnt indifference from Elliot. There's a very good letter where she's writing to a friend, Shirley Hazzard, in New York.It's after she discovers that her lover, Derek Stanford, has sold her love letters, 70 love letters, which describe two very, very painfully raw, very tender love letters. She describes to Shirley Hazzard this terrible betrayal. She says, "But, I'm over it. I'm over it now. Now I'm just going to be indifferent." She's telling herself to just be indifferent about this. You watch her tutoring herself into the indifference that she needed in order to become the artist that she knew she was.Henry: Is this why she's attracted to mediocrities, because she can possess them and monsterize them, and they're good feeding for her artistic programme?Frances: Her attraction to mediocrities is completely baffling, and it makes writing her biography, a comedy, because the men she was surrounded by were so speck-like. Saw themselves as so important, but were, in fact, so speck-like that you have to laugh, and it was one after another after another. I'd never come across, in my life, so many men I'd never heard of. This was the literary world that she was surrounded by. It's odd, I don't know whether, at the time, she knew how mediocre these mediocrities were.She certainly recognised it in her novels where they're all put together into one corporate personality called the pisseur de copie in A Far Cry from Kensington, where every single literary mediocrity is in that critic who she describes as pissing and vomiting out copy. With Derek Stanford, who was obviously no one's ever heard of now, because he wrote nothing that was memorable, he was her partner from the end of the 40s until-- They ceased their sexual relationship when she started to be interested in becoming a Catholic in 1953, but she was devoted to him up until 1958. She seemed to be completely incapable of recognising that she had the genius and he had none.Her letters to him deferred to him, all the time, as having literary powers that she hadn't got, as having insights that she hadn't got, he's better read than she was. She was such an amazingly good critic. Why could she not see when she looked at his baggy, bad prose that it wasn't good enough? She rated him so highly. When she was co-authoring books with him, which was how she started her literary career, they would occasionally write alternative sentences. Some of her sentences are always absolutely-- they're sharp, lean, sparkling, and witty, and his are way too long and really baggy and they don't say anything. Obviously, you can see that she's irritated by it.She still doesn't say, "Look, I'm going now." It was only when she became a novelist that she said, "I want my mind to myself." She puts, "I want my mind to myself." She didn't want to be in a double act with him. Doubles were important to her. She didn't want to be in a double act with him anymore. He obviously had bought into her adulation of him and hadn't recognised that she had this terrifying power as a writer. It was now his turn to have the breakdown. Spark had the mental breakdown in 1950, '45. When her first novel came out in 1957, it was Stanford who had the breakdown because he couldn't take on board who she was as a novelist.What he didn't know about her as a novelist was her comic sense, how that would fuel the fiction, but also, he didn't recognize because he reviewed her books badly. He didn't recognise that the woman who had been so tender, vulnerable, and loving with him could be this novelist who had nothing to say about tenderness or love. In his reviews, he says, "Why are her characters so cold?" because he thought that she should be writing from the core of her as a human being rather than the core of her as an intellect.Henry: What are her best novels?Frances: Every one I read, I think this has to be the best.[laughter]This is particularly the case in the early novels, where I'm dazzled by The Comforters and think there cannot have been a better first novel of the 20th century or even the 21st century so far. The Comforters. Then read Robinson, her second novel, and think, "Oh God, no, that is her best novel. Then Memento Mori, I think, "Actually, that must be the best novel of the 20th century." [laughs] Then you move on to The Ballad of Peckham Rye, I think, "No, that's even better."The novels landed. It's one of the strange things about her; it took her so long to become a novelist. When she had become one, the novels just landed. Once in one year, two novels landed. In 1959, she had, it was The Bachelors and The Ballad of Peckham Rye, both just completely extraordinary. The novels had been the storing up, and then they just fell on the page. They're different, but samey. They're samey in as much as they're very, very, very clever. They're clever about Catholicism, and they have the same narrative wit. My God, do the plots work in different ways. She was wonderful at plots. She was a great plotter. She liked plots in both senses of the world.She liked the idea of plotting against someone, also laying a plot. She was, at the same time, absolutely horrified by being caught inside someone's plot. That's what The Comforters is about, a young writer called Caroline Rose, who has a breakdown, it's a dramatisation of Sparks' own breakdown, who has a breakdown, and believes that she is caught inside someone else's story. She is a typewriter repeating all of her thoughts. Typewriter and a chorus repeating all of her thoughts.What people say about The Comforters is that Caroline Rose thought she is a heroine of a novel who finds herself trapped in a novel. Actually, if you read what Caroline Rose says in the novel, she doesn't think she's trapped in a novel; she thinks she's trapped in a biography. "There is a typewriter typing the story of our lives," she says to her boyfriend. "Of our lives." Muriel Sparks' first book was about being trapped in a biography, which is, of course, what she brought on herself when she decided to trap herself in a biography. [laughs]Henry: I think I would vote for Loitering with Intent, The Girls of Slender Means as my favourites. I can see that Memento Mori is a good book, but I don't love it, actually.Frances: Really? Interesting. Okay. I completely agree with you about-- I think Loitering with Intent is my overall favourite. Don't you find every time you read it, it's a different book? There are about 12 books I've discovered so far in that book. She loved books inside books, but every time I read it, I think, "Oh my God, it's changed shape again. It's a shape-shifting novel."Henry: We all now need the Frances Wilson essay about the 12 books inside Loitering with Intent.Frances: I know.[laughter]Henry: A few more general questions to close. Did Thomas De Quincey waste his talents?Frances: I wouldn't have said so. I think that's because every single day of his life, he was on opium.Henry: I think the argument is a combination of too much opium and also too much magazine work and not enough "real serious" philosophy, big poems, whatever.Frances: I think the best of his work went into Blackwood's, so the magazine work. When he was taken on by Blackwood's, the razor-sharp Edinburgh magazine, then the best of his work took place. I think that had he only written the murder essays, that would have been enough for me, On Murder as a Fine Art.That was enough. I don't need any more of De Quincey. I think Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is also enough in as much as it's the great memoir of addiction. We don't need any more memoirs of addiction, just read that. It's not just a memoir of being addicted to opium. It's about being addicted to what's what. It's about being a super fan and addicted to writing. He was addicted to everything. If he was in AA now, they'd say, apparently, there are 12 addictions, he had all of them. [laughs]Henry: Yes. People talk a lot about parasocial relationships online, where you read someone online or you follow them, and you have this strange idea in your head that you know them in some way, even though they're just this disembodied online person. You sometimes see people say, "Oh, we should understand this more." I think, "Well, read the history of literature, parasocial relationships everywhere."Frances: That's completely true. I hadn't heard that term before. The history of literature, a parasocial relationship. That's your next book.Henry: There we go. I think what I want from De Quincey is more about Shakespeare, because I think the Macbeth essay is superb.Frances: Absolutely brilliant. On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.Henry: Yes, and then you think, "Wait, where's the rest of this book? There should be an essay about every play."Frances: That's an absolutely brilliant example of microhistory, isn't it? Just taking a moment in a play, just the knocking at the gate, the morning after the murders, and blowing that moment up, so it becomes the whole play. Oh, my God, it's good. You're right.Henry: It's so good. What is, I think, "important about it", is that in the 20th century, critics started saying or scholars started saying a lot, "We can't just look at the words on the page. We've got to think about the dramaturgy. We've got to really, really think about how it plays out." De Quincey was an absolute master of that. It's really brilliant.Frances: Yes.Henry: What's your favourite modern novel or novelist?Frances: Oh, Hilary Mantel, without doubt, I think. I think we were lucky enough to live alongside a great, great, great novelist. I think the Wolf Hall trilogy is absolutely the greatest piece of narrative fiction that's come out of the 21st century. I also love her. I love her work as an essayist. I love her. She's spooky like Spark. She was inspired.Henry: Yes, she is. Yes.Frances: She learnt a lot of her cunning from Spark, I think. She's written a very spooky memoir. In fact, the only women novelists who acknowledge Spark as their influencer are Ali Smith and Hilary Mantel, although you can see Spark in William Boyd all the time. I think we're pretty lucky to live alongside William Boyd as well. Looking for real, real greatness, I think there's no one to compare with Mantel. Do you agree?Henry: I don't like the third volume of the trilogy.Frances: Okay. Right.Henry: Yes, in general, I do agree. Yes. I think some people don't like historical fiction for a variety of reasons. It may take some time for her to get it. I think she's acknowledged as being really good. I don't know that she's yet acknowledged at the level that you're saying.Frances: Yes.Henry: I think that will take a little bit longer. Maybe as and when there's a biography that will help with that, which I'm sure there will be a biography.Frances: I think they need to wait. I do think it's important to wait for a reputation to settle before starting the biography. Her biography will be very interesting because she married the same man twice. Her growth as a novelist was so extraordinary. Spark, she spent time in Africa. She had this terrible, terrible illness. She knew something. I think what I love about Mantel is, as with Spark, she knew something. She knew something, and she didn't quite know what it was that she knew. She had to write because of this knowledge. When you read her, you know that she's on a different level of understanding.Henry: You specialise in slightly neglected figures of English literature. Who else among the canonical writers deserves a bit more attention?Frances: Oh, that's interesting. I love minor characters. I think Spark was very witty about describing herself as a minor novelist or a writer of minor novels when she was evidently major. She always saw the comedy in being a minor. All the minor writers interest me. Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green. No, they have heard Elizabeth Bowen has been treated well by Hermione Lee and Henry Green has been treated well by Jeremy Treglown.Why are they not up there yet? They're so much better than most of their contemporaries. I am mystified and fascinated by why it is that the most powerful writers tend to be kicked into the long grass. It's dazzling. When you read a Henry Green novel, you think, "But this is what it's all about. He's understood everything about what the novel can do. Why has no one heard of him?"Henry: I think Elizabeth Bowen's problem is that she's so concise, dense, and well-structured, and everything really plays its part in the pattern of the whole that it's not breezy reading.Frances: No, it's absolutely not.Henry: I think that probably holds her back in some way, even though when I have pushed it on people, most of the time they've said, "Gosh, she's a genius."Frances: Yes.Henry: It's not an easy genius. Whereas Dickens, the pages sort of fly along, something like that.Frances: Yes. One of the really interesting things about Spark is that she really, really is easy reading. At the same time, there's so much freight in those books. There's so much intellectual weight and so many games being played. There's so many books inside the books. Yet you can just read them for the pleasure. You can just read them for the plot. You can read one in an afternoon and think that you've been lost inside a book for 10 years. You don't get that from Elizabeth Bowen. That's true. The novels, you feel the weight, don't you?Henry: Yes.Frances: She's Jamesian. She's more Jamesian, I think, than Spark is.Henry: Something like A World of Love, it requires quite a lot of you.Frances: Yes, it does. Yes, it's not bedtime reading.Henry: No, exactly.Frances: Sitting up in a library.Henry: Yes. Now, you mentioned James. You're a Henry James expert.Frances: I did my PhD on Henry James.Henry: Yes. Will you ever write about him?Frances: I have, actually. Just a little plug. I've just done a selection of James's short stories, three volumes, which are coming out, I think, later this year for Riverrun with a separate introduction for each volume. I think that's all the writing I'm going to do on James. When I was an academic, I did some academic essays on him for collections and things. No, I've never felt, ever, ready to write on James because he's too complicated. I can only take tiny, tiny bits of James and home in on them.Henry: He's a great one for trying to crack the code.Frances: He really is. In fact, I was struck all the way through writing Electric Spark by James's understanding of the comedy of biography, which is described in the figure in the carpet. Remember that wonderful story where there's a writer called Verica who explains to a young critic that none of the critics have understood what his work's about. Everything that's written about him, it's fine, but it's absolutely missed his main point, his beautiful point. He said that in order to understand what the work's about, you have to look for The Figure in the Carpet. It's The Figure in the CarpetIt's the string on which my pearls are strung. A couple of critics become completely obsessed with looking for this Figure in the Carpet. Of course, Spark loved James's short stories. You feel James's short stories playing inside her own short stories. I think that one of the games she left for her biographers was the idea of The Figure in the Carpet. Go on, find it then. Find it. [laughs] The string on which my pearls are strung.Henry: Why did you leave academia? We should say that you did this before it became the thing that everyone's doing.Frances: Is everyone leaving now?Henry: A lot of people are leaving now.Frances: Oh, I didn't know. I was ahead of the curve. I left 20 years ago because I wasn't able to write the books I wanted to write. I left when I'd written two books as an academic. My first was Literary Seductions, and my second was a biography of a blackmailing courtesan called Harriet Wilson, and the book was called The Courtesan's Revenge. My department was sniffy about the books because they were published by Faber and not by OUP, and suggested that somehow I was lowering the tone of the department.This is what things were like 20 years ago. Then I got a contract to write The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, my third book, again with Faber. I didn't want to write the book with my head of department in the back of my mind saying, "Make this into an academic tome and put footnotes in." I decided then that I would leave, and I left very suddenly. Now, I said I'm leaving sort of now, and I've got books to write, and felt completely liberated. Then for The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, I decided not to have footnotes. It's the only book I've ever written without footnotes, simply as a celebration of no longer being in academia.Then the things I loved about being in academia, I loved teaching, and I loved being immersed in literature, but I really couldn't be around colleagues and couldn't be around the ridiculous rules of what was seen as okay. In fact, the university I left, then asked me to come back on a 0.5 basis when they realised that it was now fashionable to have someone who was a trade author. They asked me to come back, which I did not want to do. I wanted to spend days where I didn't see people rather than days where I had to talk to colleagues all the time. I think that academia is very unhappy. The department I was in was incredibly unhappy.Since then, I took up a job very briefly in another English department where I taught creative writing part-time. That was also incredibly unhappy. I don't know whether other French departments or engineering departments are happier places than English departments, but English departments are the most unhappy places I think I've ever seen.[laughter]Henry: What do you admire about the work of George Meredith?Frances: Oh, I love George Meredith. [laughs] Yes. I think Modern Love, his first novel, Modern Love, in a strange sonnet form, where it's not 14 lines, but 16 lines. By the time you get to the bottom two lines, the novel, the sonnet has become hysterical. Modern Love hasn't been properly recognised. It's an account of the breakdown of his marriage. His wife, who was the daughter of the romantic, minor novelist, Thomas Love Peacock. His wife had an affair with the artist who painted the famous Death of Chatterton. Meredith was the model for Chatterton, the dead poet in his purple silks, with his hand falling on the ground. There's a lot of mythology around Meredith.I think, as with Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green, he's difficult. He's difficult. The other week, I tried to reread Diana of the Crossways, which was a really important novel, and I still love it. I really recognise that it's not an easy read. He doesn't try, in any way, to seduce his readers. They absolutely have to crawl inside each book to sit inside his mind and see the world as he's seeing it.Henry: Can you tell us what you will do next?Frances: At the moment, I'm testing some ideas out. I feel, at the end of every biography, you need a writer. You need to cleanse your palate. Otherwise, there's a danger of writing the same book again. I need this time, I think, to write about, to move century and move genders. I want to go back, I think, to the 19th century. I want to write about a male writer for a moment, and possibly not a novelist as well, because after being immersed in Muriel Sparks' novels, no other novel is going to seem good enough. I'm testing 19th-century men who didn't write novels, and it will probably be a minor character.Henry: Whatever it is, I look forward to reading it. Frances Wilson, thank you very much.Frances: Thank you so much, Henry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk/subscribe

Cambridge Breakfast
Charity Tuesday: Crossways opens winter homeless shelter

Cambridge Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 13:15


A homeless Shelter in Cambridge that only opened its doors for the winter yesterday says it expects to be full by Thursday. Crossways is a part of the It Takes […]

Overland Park Community Church - Sermons

A message from "Genesis," a sermon series from Lead Pastor Jimmy Holbrook.

The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
The Ta-u and their Island Home with Syaman Lamuran and Syaman Rapongan

The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 10:53


Here at IIAS, the upcoming edition of our flagship publication The Newsletter (June 2024, #98) comes out next month, just in time for the ICAS 13 conference in Surabaya, Indonesia. This edition of The Newsletter is meant to engage in various ways with the conference theme, “Crossways of Knowledge.” The special Focus section of this issue presents a collection of articles by authors from the Indigenous Ta-u community of Lanyu Island off the coast of Taiwan. Echoing the theme of maritime connections so central to this iteration of ICAS 13, the authors of The Focus reflect on multiple dimensions of Ta-u life, including traditional practices like fishing and boat-building as well as contemporary challenges posed by tourism, migration, and ecological disruption. As a teaser for the Indigenous collection in the upcoming issue, we asked two authors – both members of the Ta-u community – to come on the podcast and give our audience a sense of the Ta-u language through its stories and poetry. In this episode, Syaman Lamuran gives a brief introduction before Syaman Rapongan, an elder of the community, offers two recitations: first, some ceremonial words spoken during the Summoning Flying Fish ritual; and second, a poem reflecting the importance of boats and fish to the Ta-u culture. Finally, Syaman Lamuran returns to reflect and translate these recitations into English. If you'd like to know more about traditional Ta-u culture and contemporary Ta-u lives, be sure to pick up Issue #98 of The Newsletter. In addition to Syaman Lamuran and Syaman Rapongan, we'd also like to thank Eric Clark, Annika Pissin, and Huei-Min Tsai, who co-edited the upcoming Focus section in collaboration with members of the Ta-u community. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's Deconstruct a Story
"Let's Deconstruct a Story" featuring Sheila Kohler

Let's Deconstruct a Story

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 39:40


Hi Everyone, We're a little late with this episode and it's all my fault! As I mentioned in my May 1st blog post (sign up here for updates), for the first time in four years, I conducted an amazing interview with Sheila Kohler and forgot to hit record on Zoom. Sheila--the most gracious person on Earth--forgave me for wasting 45 minutes of her time and agreed to re-record the episode. Thank you to Sheila for sitting down with me twice! After I recovered from the shame, I realized this might be a great boon for readers. I loved Cracks—the short story, the novel, and the movie! You will find links to all three below. It was fascinating to talk about Sheila's adaptation from short story to novel and to hear about the making of the movie and the decision to set the movie in England rather than South Africa. I hope you have had time to read the short story and the novel. What did you think of the movie? Let me know if you have any follow-up questions or comments. I would love to hear. Here are the links: Content Warning: Sexual Assault Cracks, the short story, by Sheila Kohler Cracks, The Novel by Sheila Kohler, available at Bookshop and Amazon. Cracks, The Movie In other news... I am taking a sabbatical from the podcast this summer to rest, regroup, and figure out what direction to take this show in in the future. I love doing it, but every now and then, I think it's a good idea to reevaluate and hone in on what has been valuable and what parts need to go. My first guest in the fall is Tim Tomlinson. Although I will be talking to him about one of his short stories, he has a new book coming out this month. It looks terrific! Check out kellyfordon.com for a picture of the cover and publication information from Nirala. Cheers! Kelly Sheila Kohler Bio: Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the younger of two girls. Upon matriculation at 17 from Saint Andrews, with a distinction in history (1958), she left the country for Europe. She lived for 15 years in Paris, where she married, did her undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. After raising her three girls, she moved to the USA in 1981, and did an MFA in writing at Columbia. In the summer of 1987, her first published story, “The Mountain,” came out in “The Quarterly” and received an O.Henry prize and was published in the O.Henry Prize Stories of 1988. It also became the first chapter in her first novel, “The Perfect Place,” which was published by Knopf the next year. Knopf also published the first volume of her short stories, “Miracles in America,” in 1990. Kohler has won two O.Henry prizes for “The Mountain” 1988 and “The Transitional Object” 2008. She has been short-listed in the O.Henry Prize Stories for three years running: in 1999 for the story, “Africans”; in 2000 for “Casualty,” which had appeared in the Ontario Review; and 2001 for “Death in Rome,” a story which had appeared in The Antioch Review. “Casualty” was also included in the list of distinguished stories in The Best American Short Stories of 2001. In 1994 she published a second novel, “The House on R Street,” also with Knopf, about which Patrick McGrath said, in “The New York Times Book Review: ” “Sheila Kohler has achieved in this short novel a remarkable atmosphere, a fine delicate fusion of period, society and climate.” In 1998 she published a short story, “Africans,” in Story Magazine, which was chosen for the Best American Short Stories of 1999, was read and recorded at Symphony Space and at The American Repertory Theatre in Boston and was translated into Japanese. It was also included in her second collection of stories,” One Girl,” published by Helicon Nine, which won the Willa Cather Prize in 1998 judged by William Gass. In 1999 she published her third novel, “Cracks,” with Zoland, which received a starred review from Kirkus, was nominated for an Impac award in 2001, and was chosen one of the best books of the year by Newsday and by Library Journal.” Cracks” also came out with Bloomsbury in England, was translated into French and Dutch, and will come out in Hebrew. It has been optioned six times by Killer films and Working Track 2. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, 2009, and at the London film festival and came out here in the summer of 2010 and is now on Netflix. It is directed by Jordan Scott, with Eva Green in the role of Miss G. In 2000 Kohler received the Smart Family Foundation Prize for “Underworld,” a story published in the October “Yale Review.” In 2001 she published her fourth novel,” The Children of Pithiviers,” with Zoland, a novel about the concentration camps during the Vicky Period in France in Pithiviers and Beaune la Rolande. In 2003 she was awarded a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Institute to work on a historical novel based on the life on the Marquise de la Tour du Pin, a French aristocrat who escaped the Terror by bringing her family to Albany, New York. Also that year she published her third volume of short stories, “Stories from Another World” with the Ontario Review Press. She won the Antioch Review Prize in 2004 for work in that magazine. Both “ The Perfect Place” and “Miracles in America” came out in England with Jonathan Cape and in paperback with Vintage International. “The Perfect Place” was translated into French, German, Japanese, and Portuguese. Her fifth novel, “Crossways,” came out in October, 2004, also, with the Ontario Review Press edited by Raymond Smith and Joyce Carol Oates. It received a starred Kirkus Review and is out in paperback with the Other Press as well as “The Perfect Place.” Kohler has published essays in The Boston Globe, Salmagundi (summer 2004, 2009), The Bellevue Literary magazine, and O Magazine,”The Heart Speaks” ( May 2004), “What Happy Ever After Really Looks Like” (2008) and reviews in The New Leader and Bomb as well as essays in The American Scholar in 2014 and 2015. Kohler began teaching at The Writer's Voice in 1990, going on from there to teach at SUNY Purchase, Sarah Lawrence, Colgate, CCNY , Bennington and Columbia. She has taught creative writing at Princeton since 2008 and now teaches freshman seminars there . Sheila's sixth novel, “Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness” was published in 2007, and the paperback was published with Berkely in 2008. “The Transitional Object” in Boulevard won an O.Henry prize and is included in the 2008 volume. Her tenth book, “Becoming Jane Eyre” came out with Viking Penguin in December, 2009, and was a New York Times editor's pick. Casey Cep wrote in the Boston Globe about this novel: “With an appreciation for their craft and sympathy for their difficult profession, Kohler's “Becoming Jane Eyre'' is a tender telling of the Brontë family's saga and the stories they told.” Her eleventh book “Love Child” was published by Penguin in America and by La Table Ronde in France. In June of 2012, her twelfth book “The Bay of Foxes,” was published by Penguin. “Dreaming for Freud” was published by Penguin in 2014. It will be translated into Turkish In 2013 the story, “Magic Man” was published in Best American Short Stories. Sheila Kohler published her memoir “Once we were sisters” in 2017 with Penguin in America and with Canongate in England and Alba in Spain. Sheila's latest novel is “Open Secrets” published by Penguin in July 2020. Kohler currently lives in New York and Amagansett. ***

Dorrisville Baptist Church
Crossways (3-24-24) - Audio

Dorrisville Baptist Church

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 44:25


Dorrisville Baptist Church

Vineyard Church Maryville
Crossways: Jason Duncan - Crossways: Jason Duncan

Vineyard Church Maryville

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2024 39:54


We are blessed with a message by GCF Vineyard Lead Pastor Jason Duncan.

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 44

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 21:19


Today we continue discussing John's Gospel as we make our way through the Crossways curriculum. 

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 39

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2023 18:01


This is the last podcast of 2023. We cover the first part of Matthew's Gospel today, we will return to it in the New Year when Crossways resumes again.  

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 37

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2023 19:41


We are finally in the New Testament! Today we discuss the first half of Mark's Gospel. The Crossways curriculum begins with Mark because many scholars believe his was the first gospel written.

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 31

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 18:43


As we continue through the two year Bible curriculum, Crossways, today we focus on the book of Psalms.

As The Money Burns
Millionaires Convention

As The Money Burns

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 23:03


Many feeling the economic pinch lower summer participation.  But those who remain wealthy gather for another round of seaside fun.August 1932, many millionaires return for another Tennis Week and more yacht races in Newport, Rhode Island. Frank Shields joins other tennis stars on the courts, while Vincent Astor and his yacht Nourmahal focus on seafaring activities. This sleepy seaside enclave is having one of its best seasons in over a decade, but the biggest news is the recent sale of Marble House. Other people and subjects include: William “Sam” Van Alen, Elizabeth “Betty” Kent Van Alen, James “Henry” Van Alen, Eleanor Van Alen, Princess Louise Van Alen Mdivani, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Frank Shields, John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” Doris Duke, Nanaline Duke, Barbara Hutton, Huntington Hartford, Henrietta Hartford, Mary Lee Epling Hartford, Helen Dinsmore Astor, Caroline Astor, Carrie Astor, John Jacob Astor IV aka “Jack,” William Backhouse Astor, Jr., William K. Vanderbilt, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duke of Marlborough, Jacques Balsan, Harold Vanderbilt aka “Mike,” Oliver H.P. Belmont, Elise Robson Belmont, Alice Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Grace Wilson Vanderbilt, Cornelius “Neily” Vanderbilt III, Cornelius “Neil” Vanderbilt, Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Gladys Szechenyi, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Ellsworth Vines, Wilmer Allison, Gregory Mangin, George Lott, Bunny Austin, Fred Perry, Clyde Adams, Maud Barger-Wallach, Mary Booker, Ogden Mills, Frederick Prince, William Stewart, Mrs. William Goadby “Queenie” Loew, Atwater Kent, King Edward VII of England, King George V of England, Queen Elizabeth II of England, King Charles III of England, Astor Cup, King's Cup, America's Cup, Nourmahal, Weetamoe, Vanitie, Lone Star, Marble House, Beechwood, Beaulieu, Rough Point, Seaverge, Wakehurst, the Elm, By-The-Sea, Crossways, Newport Casino, Clambake Club, Bailey's Beach, Richard Morris Hunt, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Jon Morrow Lindbergh, lottery winner, David Lee Edwards, Gloria MacKenzie, Edwin Castro--Extra Notes / Call to Action:Instagram & Facebook Groups: MansionsoftheGildedAge and TheGildedAgeSociety by Gary LawranceNew York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.comShare, like, subscribe                                                                                                                                      --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.**Section 1 Music:**Sunshine by Jack Hylton, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20s**Section 2 Music:**One In A Million by Brian Lawrance, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 3 Music: You Hit The Spot by Carroll Gibbons, Album The Age of Style – Hits from the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburns Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

LibriVox Audiobooks
Crossways

LibriVox Audiobooks

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 37:41


The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a Nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems showcase his Celtic imagination, his love for Irish folk-tales, and his commitment to the Romantic ideal of love. (Summary by Kasper Nijsen) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/librivox1/support

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1 by Meredith

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 213:39


Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 18

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2023 18:19


Today we recap the book of Amos and preview the book of Hosea as we continue our way through the minor prophets. We are about one third of the way through the two year Crossways curriculum which covers the whole Bible.

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 13

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2023 23:51


We are moving right along in God's story of salvation, following the Crossways curriculum. Today we discuss King Solomon, described in the Bible as "wiser than all men" (I Kings 4:31). His wisdom was a great gift from God, but Solomon didn't always act according to God's will. (Not a big surprise if you've made it this far in the story).

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 12

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2023 21:50


We're back after a long holiday break! Today we recap all that's been going on around here   before jumping back into Crossways. King David is the center of our discussion on this episode.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways New Year Service 2023

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2023 30:26


Sunday service based on Isaiah 43:19, Philippians 3:13-14 & Revelation 21:5-6. Sermon title: New Beginnings

Eastside Baptist Church Sermon Podcast
When Life Goes Crossways | Pastor Jett | Sunday Morning | Genesis : In The Beginning

Eastside Baptist Church Sermon Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2022


Genesis 48: 1 - 22

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 11th December 2022 Glimpses of Glory 6

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2022 43:50


Sunday service based on Luke 2:22-40. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 6

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 4th December 2022 Glimpses of Glory 5

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2022 38:18


Sunday service based on Luke 2:22-52. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 5

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 27th November 2022 Glimpses of Glory 4

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2022 41:08


Sunday service based on Matthew 4:1-11. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 4

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 20th November 2022 Glimpses of Glory 3

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2022 46:53


Sunday service based on John 2:1-11. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 3

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 6th November 2022 Glimpses of Glory 2

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2022 50:53


Sunday service based on Matthew 17:1-13. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 2

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 30th October 2022 Glimpses of Glory 1

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 60:28


Sunday service based on Revelation 21:1-27. Sermon title: Glimpses of Glory 1

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 23rd October 2022 Sabbath Final

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2022 61:12


Sunday service based on Genesis 1:27-2:3 and Matthew 11:28-30. Sermon title: Sabbath Final

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 9th October 2022 Encounter Prayer

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2022 51:44


Sunday service based on Luke 17:11-19. Sermon title: Encounter Prayer

The Business and Life Channel
Dr Darryl Cross -Crossways Consulting

The Business and Life Channel

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2022 37:57


Dr Darryl Cross is an Executive and an Accredited  Leadership coach, and he understand how to “move” people to a different situation in Life and Business.I have known him for many years and he is highly respected because he is also a Clinical and Organizational Psychologist. This learning allows him to bring unique solutions to the many dramas people face in Business and Life! His tips on helping us all better handle difficult conversations with people enables us to succeed and move forward  with purpose and a plan…when we are dealing with people!His website is www.DrDarryl.comFor further information, suggestions, feedback or to make suggestions of other interesting interview candidates contact peter@leadaustralia.com.au

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 2nd October 2022 Sabbath 4

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2022 36:20


Sunday service based on Matthew 19:16-30. Sermon title: Seriously Sabbath 4

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 18th September 2022 Sabbath 3

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2022 66:50


Sunday service based on Exodus 1:1-22. Sermon title: Seriously Sabbath 3

Pastors Confidential
The Whole Bible 1

Pastors Confidential

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 21:34


Welcome to a new series overviewing the entire Bible! We'll hit the main points, using Eric's Wednesday evening Crossways class as our guide. Today we discuss Creation and the Fall.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 11th September 2022 Sabbath 2

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2022 54:17


Sunday service based on Exodus 20:1-21. Sermon title: Seriously Sabbath 2

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 4th September 2022 Sabbath 1

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2022 50:45


Sunday service based on Genesis 1:26 - 2:3. Sermon title: Seriously Sabbath 1

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 28th August 2022 Loud Praise

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2022 43:10


Sunday service based on Psalm 150:1-6. Sermon title: The Psalms – Loud praise

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 21st August 2022 Creation

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2022 37:15


Sunday service based on Psalm 8:1-9. Sermon title: The Psalms – Creation

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 14th August 2022 Thanksgiving

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2022 43:09


Sunday service based on Psalm 67:1-7. Sermon title: The Psalms – Thanksgiving

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 7th August 2022 Wisdom

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2022 38:39


Sunday service based on Psalm 1:1-6. Sermon title: The Psalms – Wisdom

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 31st July 2022 Lament

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2022 48:39


Sunday service based on Psalm 31:1-24. Sermon title: The Psalms - Lament

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 24th July 2022 Finale

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2022 54:32


Sunday service based on John 13:12-38. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – Finale

Dj Murphy Podcast
Episode 106: Podcast 100 (Part One)

Dj Murphy Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2022 112:19


For episode 100 I decided to play one track from each podcast from the last 99! Enjoy this mix of genres and years!Tracklisting Jack Eye Jones - Fire In Your Soul (feat. Toni Etherson)Diplo,Sonny Fodera - Turn Back TimeDansson - Shake That (Mark Knight Remix)Chocolate Puma & Gregor Salto - Gimme Sum (Original Mix)Dzeko & Torres vs Crossways, Deniz Koyu & Florence - You've Got The Togi Bong (Pete Foster Mash Up)Discotronic - Shooting Star (Golden Arrow Remix)Finn - Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough (Mella Dee Going Got A Bit Tougher Mix)KC Lights - Girl (Extended Mix)Gorgon City, Drama - You've Done Enough (Extended Mix)Armin van Buuren & Tom Staar feat. Josha Daniel - Let Go (Extended Mix)Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants (Original Mix)Jack & Daniel - _ It! (Extended Version)Nadia Ali - When It Rains (Tommy Trash Remix) (Nesh's Extemded Edit)Justin Bieber - Children (Matt Nevin Extended Mix)Sultan & Ned Shepard feat. Quilla - Walls (Original Mix)Miriam Bryant - Push Play (Filip Jenven & Mike Perry Remix)Tiesto & Sneaky Sound System - I Will Be HereSidney Samson vs. Tara McDonald - Dynamite (Nicky Romero Remix)Example - Kickstarts (Remady Remix)Lady Bee feat. Grace Regine - Sweet Like Chocolate (Original Mix)Robert Miles - Children (JOEYSUKI Bootleg)DEvolution - Good Love (Alesso Remix)Avicii - Fade Into Darkness (Mario Cross Rework)Niall Horan - This Town (Paul Gannon Bootleg)Gabry Ponte, Jerome - Lonely (Extended Mix)Ariana Grande - Problem (Deficio Remix)Axwell vs Orkestrated - Centre of Where All My Ladies At (Steve Frank Mashup)TJR vs Alice Deejay - Ode To Be Better Off Alone (Dave Bicko Mash Up)Thomas Newton Howard Ft. Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree (Nick Kennedy Bootleg)Wallpaper. - Good 4 It (Laidback Luke Goes Melbourne Remix)Deorro & Joel Fletcher - Queef (Original Mix)Peking Duk vs Taito - High Bounce (Mobin Master edit)Darkwave - Sunrise (State4 Remix)Ferry Corsten - Not Coming Down (Feat. Betsie Larkin)Ca$ino - Only You (Paul Gotel's Resurrection Soundscape)Fragma - Toca Me (Clubmix)Astroline - Close My Eyes (Peter Luts Club Remix)M-Shape - Tell Me (Ole van Dansk Remix)Unit 5 - I Love You (Djs At Work Remix)Sabotage - Engine Trouble (Lock 'N' Load Remix)Hampenberg - Don't Lie To Me (DJ Richard & Johnny Bass Remix)Diamond - Reason (Kareema Remix)Floorfilla - Le Délire (Extended) Don Esteban - X-Static (Extended Mix)

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 10th July 2022 Self-Control

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2022 49:01


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:19-26 and Matthew 26:36-46. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 9. Self-Control

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 3rd July 2022 Gentleness

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2022 51:14


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:19-26 and John 8:1-11. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 8. Gentleness

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 26th June 2022 Faithfulness

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2022 68:17


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:13-26 and Psalm 85:1-13. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 7. Faithfulness

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 12th June 2022 Goodness

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022 60:52


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:22-26 and Ephesians 5:1-20. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 6. Goodness

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 5th June 2022 Kindness

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2022 44:43


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:13-26 and 2 Samuel 9:1-13. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 5. Kindness

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 29th May 2022 Patience

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2022 54:27


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:13-26. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 4. Patience

Racontour Archive 2008 - 2019
S1 Ep3: D1 YC Ballysadare

Racontour Archive 2008 - 2019

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 0:39


Ballysadare Bridge GPS Location: 54.209507, -8.509383 Narrators: Mary Murphy and Sean McMahon Ballysadare village, 7 miles south of Sligo is where the Pollexfen Company had extensive milling interests. You should be on the bridge where the Ballysadare river is. Facing north, you are now best placed to recall one of Yeats's better known poems, 'Down by the Sally Gardens'. Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. The poet often stayed at nearby Avena House, just off the main street down from the bridge which remains a private dwelling. Salley rods were grown here, for basket making etc, and Yeats once heard a tinker woman sing the ballad he later reworded so delicately. After Ballysadare, you'll be driving to Lough Gill and Dromahair by going under the N4 road onto the R290 traveling 3kms and turning right onto the R287. Get brought to brow showing spectacular Lough Gill via Google Maps: GPS Location: 54.250261, -8.45164 Another poem from Yeats's early work features the Crossways collection of 1889, published when he was 24. It references several nearby places. The Ballad Of Father O'Hart Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a Shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout. In trust took he John's lands; Sleiveens were all his race; And he gave them as dowers to his daughters. And they married beyond their place. But Father John went up, And Father John went down; And he wore small holes in his Shoes, And he wore large holes in his gown. All loved him, only the shoneen, Whom the devils have by the hair, From the wives, and the cats, and the children, To the birds in the white of the air. The birds, for he opened their cages As he went up and down; And he said with a smile, 'Have peace now'; And he went his way with a frown. But if when anyone died Came keeners hoarser than rooks, He bade them give over their keening; For he was a man of books. And these were the works of John, When, weeping score by score, People came into Colooney; For he'd died at ninety-four. There was no human keening; The birds from Knocknarea And the world round Knocknashee Came keening in that day. The young birds and old birds Came flying, heavy and sad; Keening in from Tiraragh, Keening from Ballinafad; Keening from Inishmurray. Nor stayed for bite or sup; This way were all reproved Who dig old customs up.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 22nd May 2022 Peace

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2022 57:01


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:13-26. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 3. Peace

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 8th May 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022 52:38


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:13-26. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 2. Joy

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 1st May 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 57:06


Sunday service based on Galatians 5:1-26. Sermon title: The fruit of the Spirit, a symphony in 9 movements – 1. Love

Messages from Joey Bonifacio

Denying Jesus cost Peter his calling. That's what he thought. Jesus's plan and purpose hadn't changed though.

Every Nation Singapore Podcast

Denying Jesus cost Peter his calling. That's what he thought. Jesus's plan and purpose hadn't changed, though.

Messages from Joey Bonifacio

Denying Jesus cost Peter his calling. That's what he thought. Jesus's plan and purpose hadn't changed though.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 24th April 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 56:10


Sunday service based on Matthew 28:1-10. Sermon title: Speaking to fear

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Easter Celebration 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 66:57


Easter Sunday service based on Luke 24:1-12.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 10th April 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2022 58:18


Sunday service based on Luke 19:28-48. Sermon title: Provoked!

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 3rd April 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2022 40:44


Sunday service based on Luke 9:51-62. Sermon title: Travelling with Jesus

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 27th March 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2022 60:14


Sunday service based on Mark 14:1 - 26. Sermon title: Remembered

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 20th March 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2022 69:57


Sunday service based on Romans 8:18-39. Sermon title: Life in the Spirit can be perplexing!

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 6th March 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2022 63:35


Sunday service based on 2 Samuel 12:15-25. Sermon title: Moving on from falling down!

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 27th February 2022

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2022 57:39


Sunday service based on 2 Samuel 12:1-14. Sermon title: The counter culture of saying no!

The Ticket Top 10
Musers- Some Of The Funnies From Ticketstock: Dan Getting Crossways With Deion and George Laughing At Hooper The FC Dallas Mascot

The Ticket Top 10

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 16:05


2-21-2022 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 5th December 2021

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2021 50:45


Sunday service based on Revelation 12: 1-17. Sermon title: Do we realise how dangerous Christmas is?

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 21st November 2021

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2021 62:33


Sunday service based on 2 Timothy 1:1-7. Sermon title: Do we realise how important holy boldness is?

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 14th November 2021

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2021 26:26


Sunday service based on John 20:19-31. Sermon title: Do we realise how important mission is?

CCBC Sermons
Crossways Service 7th November 2021

CCBC Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2021 50:50


Sunday service based on John 5:1 - 15 and 2 Corinthians 3:17 - 18. Sermon title: Do we realise how important transformation is?

KentOnline
Podcast: Arrests as Insulate Britain block roundabouts on Crossways Boulevard and Dartford Crossing

KentOnline

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 22:31


More than a dozen people have been arrested following another Insulate Britain protest. The group said yesterday they would stage action despite another injunction aimed at trying to stop them. They gathered not far from the Dartford Crossing this morning - hear from a man who was caught up in the traffic. Also in today's podcast, find out what chancellor Rishi Sunak had to say in today's budget. We've also spoken to the Kent Invicta Chamber of Commerce. Women are being urged to avoid pubs, clubs and bars in Kent tonight as part of the Girl's Night In protest. They want to raise awareness of drink spiking and say they're worried about the number of cases. The president of the Kent Union has spoken out and we'll hear from the owner of Club Chemistry in Canterbury which is shutting tonight in solidarity. In sport, Gillingham are out of the EFL Trophy - we have reaction from their assistant boss following last night's defeat to West Ham under 21s.

MAGICk WITHOUT FEARs

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Digity's Podcast Drum and Bass
CROSSWAYS 12/19/2020

Digity's Podcast Drum and Bass

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2020 53:57


Hello everyone! My apologys on the late late late upload. I'm currently working for amazon and I'm getting my ass kicked everyday. So here is the new mix. I hope you all enjoy and have a great christmas. See you next year next month. Download, share, tell all your friends and family. TRACKLIST 1) Don't let me go - Bladerunner  2) Morning Time - Madcap 3) Nads - DLR  4) Sweating (Breakage Remix) - Alewya 5) Hit the target - DLR & Break 6) GHCB - Amoss  7) Your Moves - Workforce 8) Rolling Dub (Ill Truth remix) - Trex  9) Didger - Workforce  10) Kiss the ring - The Sauce 11) Spooked - The sauce  12) Wut - The Sauce  13) Down like that - The Sauce  14) Common Interests - Workforce  15) Out in the streets( Voltage Remix) - Ben Snow & Voltage  16) Dragon's Lair (Ft. OB1) - Creatures 17) Crossways (L-Side Remix) - Villem, Mcleod & Degs  18) Persuasion - Mosaic  19) Your Loss - Workforce 20) Overnight Express (Ft. SP:MC Break Remix) - Workforce 21) Apollo 17 - Simula  22) Dub Plate - Ego Trippin  23) Your Loss (Halogenix Remix)- Workforce  24) Still Drowning - Phase, DRS & Grey Code 

Men in Sheds 107.3 HFM
Men in Sheds

Men in Sheds 107.3 HFM

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 8:47


Crossways a beacon in the Pandemic

Thriving Twogether
Double Layer, Crossways Weed Barrier

Thriving Twogether

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2020 6:27


Apparently preventing weeds takes thought, money and time. Our flowerbeds  seemed filled with more weeds than flowers.  At first we pulled weeds multiple times each year. And we sprayed weed killer. Those solutions didn't last.  Then Melissa and I collaborated to find impenetrable weed barrier. But experience showed us weeds can penetrate after a few years. So we devised a tactic: lay two layers of weed barrier crossways.  And for good measure we buried the weed barrier with rocks.  Relationship weeds are anything that threatens your family.: pornography, violence, apathy, distractions, diversions, and much more.  What is the one double layer, crossways impenetrable weed barrier best suited to prevent weeds in your relationships? Can you heap rocks ontop of your weeds so they won't  Are you stuck pulling the same weeds?  Some excellent weed barriers are couples counseling, giving, repenting, simplifying, debt elimination, and companion bragging.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thriving-twogether/support

BRIDGE Radio
#133 Dr. Matthew Capps: A 12-Week Study On Hebrews

BRIDGE Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2020 43:44


The book of Hebrews stands apart from other biblical books in its unique portrait of Jesus Christ as the supreme revelation of God—a portrait bolstered by the author’s skillful use of imagery, metaphor, and Old Testament analogy. Dr. Matthew Capps, the author of Crossways "Hebrews: A 12-Week Study," joins us to talk about this incredible book.

Crossways
Fruit of the Spirit: Patience with guest Lonnie Jones

Crossways

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2020 33:54


Lonnie Jones joins the Crossways podcast to discuss how we can have patience

Bible Tracts Inc.
Don’t Get Crossways With God (Galatians 1)

Bible Tracts Inc.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020


The post Don’t Get Crossways With God (Galatians 1) appeared first on Bible Tracts Inc..

St John's Podcast
1438_Mental_Health_Matters_2_Chris_Munday_08PM23Oct2019

St John's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2019 73:24


Chris Munday PM23Oct2019 Mental Health Matters - 2 Session 2: 23rd October Recognising the main types of mental illness Chris Munday CEO of Crossways in Tunbridge Wells Autumn Course Playing time: 75 minutes.

St John's Podcast
1435_Mental_Health_Matters_Chris_Munday_10AM16Oct2019

St John's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2019 64:54


Chris Munday PM16Oct2019 Mental Health Matters - 1 Session 1: 16th October Getting to grips with Mental Health Chris Munday CEO of Crossways in Tunbridge Wells Autumn Course Playing time: 65 minutes.  

Journeywomen
Finding a Local Church with Mark Dever | Ep. 85

Journeywomen

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2019 34:14


On today’s episode of the Journeywomen podcast, I’m chatting with Dr. Mark Dever about finding a healthy church. So you’ll know him a little better, Dr. Mark has served as the senior pastor of CHBC (Capitol Hill Baptist Church) since 1994 and as president of 9Marks (a ministry to churches and church leaders) since its founding in 1998. He’s married to Connie and they have two adult children, both married, and one grandchild. Dr. Mark has authored a number of books, including 9 Marks of a Healthy Church. Whether you’re on the hunt for a church or if you’re already involved somewhere, we think you’ll walk away from this conversation with Mark encouraged to follow Jesus with his people for his glory.   MARK’S RESOURCES 9Marks Church Search   Nine Marks of a Healthy Church The Church: The Gospel Made Visible Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions The Christian Ministry by Charles Bridges   MARK’S SIMPLE JOYS Wife Kids and grandkids Reading history People Architecture   SCRIPTURE REFERENCES Galatians 5 John 13:34-35 Hebrews 10:19-25 Hebrews 12 1 Corinthians 11:28   DISCUSSION QUESTIONS What are the elements of a healthy church? Why is it important to exercise community within the context of a local church? What is the difference between a healthy and unhealthy church? What is the gospel and what does that look like presented in the local church? What are you going to do or implement as a result of what you’ve learned this week?   SPONSORSHIP DETAILS The Marriage After God podcast is intended to encourage, inspire, and challenge Christian marriages to chase after God together and to cultivate an extraordinary marriage. Check them out for yourself by searching for “Marriage After God” wherever you listen to podcasts. Learn more about them at marriageaftergod.com or on Instagram at @marriageaftergod. Prep Dish is a healthy subscription-based meal planning service. All you need to do is sign up, and you’ll receive an email every week with a grocery list and instructions for prepping meals ahead of time. For a free 2-week trial, go to PrepDish.com/journey. Crossway's purpose as a not-for-profit ministry is to publish gospel-centered, Bible-centered resources that honor our Savior and serve his Church. Crossways’s new book release, Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion explores 12 controversial questions that some say seem to undermine the Christian faith. Learn more about Confronting Christianity and find other resources at Crossway.org/Journeywomen1.   FOR MORE EPISODES OF JOURNEYWOMEN:   SUBSCRIBE Subscribe on iOS, go to the iTunes page and subscribe to the Journeywomen Podcast. On Android, click this podcast RSS feed link and select your podcast app. You may need to copy the link into your favorite podcast app (like Overcast or Stitcher).   WRITE A REVIEW Writing a review on iTunes will help other women on their journeys to glorify God find and utilize the podcast as a resource.   FOLLOW JOURNEYWOMEN Like/follow Journeywomen on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter for the latest updates.   *Affiliate links used are used where appropriate. Thank you for supporting the products that support Journeywomen!

Valiant Emcee Radio
The Vocal with Valiant Emcee - Special Guests MC Coppa and Degs

Valiant Emcee Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2019 140:43


Episode 2 of The Vocal, a show covering all things vocal in drum-n-bass music. The episode features more of Valiant Emcee's favorite vocal DnB tracks from 2018. Also, the multi-talented Degs calls in for an-in depth interview, plus Coppa joins us for a mini-interview (pardon the technical difficulties on that one...I tried to minimize them, but it was a problematic connection and recording). This episode is sponsored by DnB Refined (freshpapercut.com/dnbrefined) and Dutty Bass Audio (www.junodownload.com/labels/Dutty+Bass+Audio). Tracklisting: Degs and CyberPosix - "Sun Kissed (Kissed Again Spreayout)" Valiant Emcee and Will Miles - "Mic Check (feat. Armanni Reign and MisTy)" ***INTERLUDE - Roni Size and Reprazent - "Jazz"*** Tali with DRS and Paramount – “Reunion (100 Days)” ALIBI and MC Coppa – “Trunk” Villem & McLeod with Degs - "Crossways" Whiney and Sense MC – “Notorious" Redeyes and Tyler Dayley - "Late Night Jam" (I mistakenly called it "Late Night Session" after at the end of the tune, even though I properly introduced it as "Late Night Jam"...go figure.) MC Coppa with Nympho and ZeroZero - "Brainwashed" Alibi and Cleveland Watkiss - "Grace" Tali with DRS and Roy Green & Protone - "Paper Wasp" Bcee and Degs - "Magic Words" Zed Bias and Boudah - "Pick Up the Pieces (Skeptical Remix)" Walk-r and Charlie Brix - "All I Need (Ash:Ram Remix)" ***COPPA INTERVIEW*** Prolix and MC Coppa - "On Like That" ***DEGS INTERVIEW*** Degs and Detune - "Povegia"

The Blacksmith's Furnace
TBF 143 Surviving the culture

The Blacksmith's Furnace

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2019 71:38


Surviving R.Kelly is quite possibly one of the most significant documentaries to hit the masses in recent times. The topic of abuse, and predatory culture, and the attitudes that make such behaviour thrive has never been more relevant than it is now, and the awkward, difficult and uncomfortable conversations that need to be had are at least beginning to become more commonplace in our places of work and leisure. In today's conversation we of course also have a look at what the state of society is, how it got this way and maybe how we can steer it right. and just as i mentioned before , it wasn't an easy conversation to have Luckily we were graced with the presence of Jems who brought a much needed feminine opinion to the table, unluckily we didn't have Bobby A but he most certainly was with us in spirit! Despite the Gloom and doom of the conversation we stayed true to bringing you guys a couple of hookups Peter suggested checking out the Daily Audio Bible Chronological, it's a podcast created by the same guys who made the Daily Audion bible podcast he recommended last year. Check it out here https://player.dailyaudiobible.com/chronological Jemz hooked us up with A christian meditation app that provides guided meditation with biblical stories. It's definitely one I'll be checking out myself Have a go here https://abide.co/ Lastly Mo suggested a journaling bible from Crossways, they've got a bunch of different bibles for you to check out but the one Mo suggested is a single gospel, Mark, and it's laid out such that one page is the word the next is just lined for your journaling . Check out their bibles here https://www.crossway.org/bibles/?category=All We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing. We're big believers in the "win-win" Take care and stay blessed. Special thanks to RUDE (@itsrudeboy) for the intro and outro music. And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for TheOrdinaryAmazing.com logo design.

Everyday Ministry Podcast

Daniel and James get together to discuss the statistics found on Crossways webpage promoting the new book Reset. In this episode we talk about burnout, not only for Ministers but for everyone. Plug of the Week https://www.crossway.org/blog/2017/03/infographic-the-common-yet-neglected-problem-of-burnout/ https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Disciplines-Christian-Donald-Whitney/dp/1615216170/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ASDT1TX29M2YD20BGKAV https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Up-Disciple-Makes-Disciples/dp/1462729983/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493611642&sr=1-1&keywords=Growing+Up

Contact Mic Podcast
Episode 13 - Blues At The Crossways

Contact Mic Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2017 30:55


Your parents think you've joined a cult. People are trying to punch you on the street. Joining the Hare Krishnas isn't all chanting and cheap lunches. When you start swapping boozy jams for sober mantras, you start to learn how you tick. But stripping things back doesn't always make the path any clearer.  Contact Mic returns with an episode about searching for simplicity and finding complexity.

Crossways Community Church
Wake Up Church - Pastor Stephen Brindley

Crossways Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2016 49:01


Crossways Community Church is a God loving, Faith filled, vibrant Church based in Dartford, Kent.  Meeting every Sunday 10:30am at the Stone Pavilion, just outside Bluewater shopping centre. For more information about Crossways, please visit our website www.crosswayscommunitychurch.co.uk

Crossways Community Church
Peace in your home - Pastor Stephen Brindley

Crossways Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2016 29:04


Crossways Community Church is a God loving, Faith filled, vibrant Church based in Dartford, Kent.  Meeting every Sunday 10:30am at the Stone Pavilion, just outside Bluewater shopping centre. For more information about Crossways, please visit our website www.crosswayscommunitychurch.co.uk

Crossways Community Church
The Power Of Praise - Pastor Sarah Brindley

Crossways Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2016 28:58


Crossways Community Church is a God loving, Faith filled, vibrant Church based in Dartford, Kent.  Meeting every Sunday 10:30am at the Stone Pavilion, just outside Bluewater shopping centre. For more information about Crossways, please visit our website www.crosswayscommunitychurch.co.uk

Crossways Community Church
Surrender - Pastor Sarah Brindley

Crossways Community Church

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2016 26:52


Crossways Community Church is a God loving Faith filled, vibrant Church based in Dartford, Kent.  Meeting every Sunday 10:30am at the Stone Pavilion just outside Bluewater shopping centre. For more information about Crossways please visit our website www.crosswayscommunitychurch.co.uk

The Dice Tower
TDT # 342 - Best Games from 1999

The Dice Tower

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2014 79:04


In this show, we take a look at Theseus, Scallywags, Dungeon Guild, Pandemic: The Cure, Crossways, and 1775 Rebellion. We also answer a pile of questions, and then end the show with our favorite games from 1999 - fifteen years ago!

Dice Tower Deluxe
DTD # 342 - Best Games from 1999

Dice Tower Deluxe

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2014 79:06


In this show, we take a look at Theseus, Scallywags, Dungeon Guild, Pandemic: The Cure, Crossways, and 1775 Rebellion. We also answer a pile of questions, and then end the show with our favorite games from 1999 - fifteen years ago!

Erik Floyd | Effect Radio
Erik Floyd EFfect Radio | Episode 008

Erik Floyd | Effect Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2013 64:08


Erik Floyd Presents: EFfect Radio Episode 007 Thanks for Downloading & Listening Stay Connected:    ErikFloyd.com Twitter.com/ErikFloyd Facebook.com/ErikFloydNYC Soundcloud.com/ErikFloyd Podcast: Erik Floyd: EFfect Radio Tracklisting 1. Perfect Landline (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Blend) - A-Trak, GTA, Clockwork, Titan 2. I Need Your Love vs Flashbang - Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding, Jewelz, Scott Sparks, (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) 3. Ohh Shhh, Azumba Symphonica (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Chris Lake, Nicky Romero, Gregor Salto 4. No One Spaceman (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Blend) - Project 46, Matthew Steeper, Hardwell 5. Yeah Yeah (Cedric Gervais Remix) - Willy Moon 6. Togi vs Summertime Sadness (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Dzeko & Torress vs Crossways, Lana Del Rey, Cedric Gervais 7. Three Million vs Shotgun (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Avicii, Cratesz, Deorro, Negin 8. Slow Down! Who? (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Tujamo & Plastik Funk, Showtek  9. Heartbeat - Vicetone 10. Riders On The Storm vs This is How we Roll (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Blend)  - Crazibiza, The Doors, Mike Hawkins, Jay Colin, Pablo Oliveros 11. Zenith, Long Way From home (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Dberrie, Fedde Le Grand, Sultan & Ned Shepard 12. Make Some Noise vs Error 404 (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Blend) - Deorro, Chuckie, Junxterjack, Martin Garrix, Jay Hardway  13. Duckface vs Bigbad Wolf (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) -  Bassjackers, Kenneth G, Dada Life 14. Come On Over, Get Up, Pogo (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) Duvoh, Deorro, Laidback Luke, Ramos, David Penn, DJ Chus, Abel Ramos, The New Iberican League 15. Parallax vs Set Fire To The Rain (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Adele, MakJ, Kura, DBerrie 16. Crime-Project 46, Daphne, Avicii 17. Clobber Summers With A Timebomb (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan) - Dannic, Jonathan Mendelso, Tiesto, r3hab, quintino 18. Feed The Joyenergizer (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Sander Van Doorn, Dada Life 19. Pop That (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Bootleg) - Crookers, RVBRA, French Montana, Styles & Complete 20. Go Down Low (Luminox Remix) - The Party Squad 21. Booty 2 The Ground VIP - UZ & CRNKN  22. Oh Boy, Butters Theme (Erik Floyd & Owen Ryan Blend) - Diplo, GTA,  23. Go Deep - Wax Motif & Neoteric