Podcast appearances and mentions of Leo Tolstoy

The name's Jimbo, Jimbo Secretan, Her Magesty's Ornothologist and best gambler in Britain.  Yes that's right it's time for the final special episode of Season 7 - this time it's a matter of national importance and there's only one man fit for the job. He likes to drink heavily, smoke like a trumpet, and by gosh can he gamble his way out of a corner. The stakes have never been higher, the ties have never been blacker, and the plans have never been smarter than with James 'Jimbo' Bond in Ian Flemming's first Bond book 'Casino Royale'. Grab a glass of pure vodka containing a small olive or other vegetable of your choosing, and join us for an adventure that simply must be destroyed after listening.///patreon.com/wapin7 - Strum into action and support the podcast!wapin7.com/rate

We welcome Collin Hansen to the show! Collin serves as vice president of content and editor-in-chief for The Gospel Coalition, hosts the Gospelbound podcast, and has written and edited many books. His most recent book is on Tim Keller, one of the early 21st-century cultural shepherds. Keller's life and work have influenced thousands if not millions. And this book is a look into the intellectual and spiritual influences that shaped him. It's an insightful and fun conversation that will inspire you, equip you, and make you laugh along the way. Collin and Travis talk about all things Keller: his home life, those who knew him in his formative years, and the authors, teachers, institutions, and leaders who influenced him. But this is not a conversation just about Tim, it's almost as much about Kathy. If that were all then it would be fantastic, but there is so much more! Tractors/tractor pulling, the Dakotas, failures in leadership, George W. Bush, Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Russian realist fiction!Get the book.Get some of Collin's other books.Sign up for the Apollos Watered newsletter.Help support the ministry of Apollos Watered and transform your world today!

Die Ukraine gibt selbst im laufenden Krieg enorme Summen dafür aus, Straßen und Plätze sowie ganze Städte und Siedlungen umzubenennen. Besonders in Mode als neue Namensgeber: Nazi-Kollaborateure wie Stepan Bandera oder Roman Schuchewytsch. Gleichzeitig werden Denkmäler von Ikonen der Weltliteratur wie Alexander Puschkin oder Leo Tolstoi abgerissen. Finanziert wird dieser Umbenennungs- und Abrisswahn vor allemWeiterlesen

February 24th marked the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Some still blame the expansion of NATO in Russia's neighbourhood as the deeper cause of this war.  Others see it as Putin's mad personal plan to go down in the history books. But some are pointing the finger to something much deeper than any of that: the Russian soul. A concept that originated in Russia's literary tradition of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and other great authors, is seen as animating today's national exceptionalism, fuelling Putin's speeches. But how straightforward is it draw a causal link between a country's cultural past, and the politics of today? Is it really ideas than animate history, or should we look to material conditions for a better explanation of events? Josephine von Zitzewitz is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford, and recently wrote an article entitled The Uses and Abuses of the Russian Soul: The weaponization of Russian Identity, in which she explores the limits of the idea that Russian culture and literature have a role to play in the war against Ukraine.Pease leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts.This podcast is created in partnership with The Philosopher, the UK's longest running public philosophy journal. Check out the spring issue of the philosopher, and its spring online lecture series: https://www.thephilosopher1923.org Artwork by Nick HallidayMusic by Rowan Mcilvride

The guys discuss the film adaptation of THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH, a novella written by Leo Tolstoy that tells the story of the monotony and purposelessness of one man's life as he struggles to find meaning before his ultimate demise. The most recent film adaptation, LIVING, stars Billy Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp and Tom Burke. The screenplay was written by Kazuo Ishiguro and directed by Oliver Herman's. The film received two Academy Awards nominations including Best Actor (Bill Nighy) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Technically, LIVING is adapted from the classic Akira Kurosawa film, IKIRU, which we also watched and will be discussing a trifecta of differences between the source material (Leo Tolstoy's novella), the Kurosawa class (Ikiru), as well as the most recent rendition (LIVING). Listen to the episode to find out how the film stacks up to the novel. (0:00) Excerpt from the novel… (1:31) Fast facts, Recap, Games… (15:04) A word from our sponsor… (15:47) Studio pitch & novel breakdown… (32:43) Trailer… (34:19) Learn you something, film differences… Other topics include the poignancy of the novella's ending, the added element of legacy to the films from the novella, and whether or not Erik hates love. Our next episode will be our picks for the top eight categories for the 95th Academy Awards airing this Sunday night, 3/12. We will be picking our favorites to win (who we think will win) and who we will be rooting for in the following categories: • Best Picture • Best Director • Best Actor • Best Actress • Best Supporting Actor • Best Supporting Actress • Best Original Screenplay • Best Adapted Screenplay Because why not? If you would like to get in contact with us about anything regarding the show, feel free to shoot us an e-mail: littolens@gmail.com Or reach out on social media: twitter.com/littolens instagram.com/littolens

Buy this book with our affiliate links on Bookshop or Amazon! Our links: All links | PATREON | Merch | Watch on YouTube | Discord Socials: TikTok | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Show Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron continue their slog through Book 3 of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, covering part 2. Get ready for more teen marriage plots, a little elucidation on Tolstoy's thoughts on doctors, and the funniest section for Pierre so far. And trust us - that last bit jumped over a high bar. Grab your copies of the Book of Revelations and tune in! Major themes: More Teen Marriage Plots, Too Hot to be Godly, Anti Doctor Content 12:21 - As Eric Blaire, a.k.a. George Orwell, explored in “Shooting an Elephant.” Also a lot to explore about colonialism and perspectives on the racialized Other there, but that's a different conversation. 40:32 - Here's an Atlantic article about it. Happened around 20-ish years earlier. 46:52 - The exact quote is: “Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.” 51:27 - Here's a bit more information about that event. 52:54 - Revelations 13:18, KJV: “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” In War & Peace “the Beast” is understood to be the anti-Christ. I, personally, have my doubts in that interpretation of the text - anti-Christs appear in several places, but the Beast only appears here; furthermore, the beast is never referred to as an “anti-Christ.” If I'm recalling correctly - the notion of the anti-Christ is never referred to in the Book of Revelations at all. I think it's a concept from The Book of John. But also I'm just a person who read the Bible growing up, I'm not a scholar or anything. The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon!

You are in for a super special treat today as Stephanie welcomes back her all-time favorite guest and friend, Os Guinness, to discuss his latest book, which you do not want to miss, and also to celebrate 50 years since the publication of his first book. The book they are discussing today is going to go down in history as one of the most influential books for our generation, Stephanie is absolutely sure of it. It is simple yet so powerful. You will read it quickly, yet you will find yourself pondering it for months. You will want to gift it to every spiritual seeker you know, as well as every serious believer, because it has something to tell each one of us about the meaning of life. Stephanie read right through it the first time and could not put it down. Then she went back and reread it slowly, savoring its stories and discovering deeper meaning. She is currently enjoying her third read through, and is even more inspired than before. Oh, please make sure to enjoy this absolute treat. Through the course of our conversation, Os gives us his take on what has been happening in Asbury, and what we need from there. Os calls us to pray for a true spiritual awakening and challenges our culture's understanding of “legacy” and they discuss the meaning of a truly successful life. Os even reveals what he thinks is his favorite book among his many! You can watch the whole conversation on video at youtube.com/gospelspice - make sure to subscribe so you never miss another exciting Gospel Spice episode! SUPER SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! WE WOULD LOVE TO FEATURE YOU ON GOSPEL SPICE! For our 200th episode, Stephanie will compile a handful of stories from our beloved listeners. How has the Lord met you recently, and has Gospel Spice played a role? Email us at contact@gospelspice.com today to apply! Deadline is March 25, 2023. Thank you! EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR ALL GOSPEL SPICE LISTENERS! Go to IVPRESS.COM and enter the coupon code SPICE to receive 30% off all of Os' books until March 24, 2023! WIN ALL OF OS GUINNESS' BOOKS WITH IVPRESS THROUGH GOSPELSPICE at gospelspice.com/giveaway  Gospel Spice and IVPress are celebrating 50 years of Os' books by giving away an entire LIBRARY of all of Os Guinness' books published by IVPress, and a beautiful organic canvas Gospel Spice tote to carry them all! The tote features the Gospel Spice motto that Stephanie and Os discuss in the interview: “God's glory, our delight.” Go to gospelspice.com/giveaway to enter for a chance to win the bundle. Giveaway is open until March 24, 2023. Winner will be picked among all the valid entries. Let us tell you a bit more…  This year, 2023, marks fifty years since Os Guinness published his first book back in 1973, “The Dust of Death.” It started what has become a prolific writing career for the well-known social critic. Today in our time with Os, we hope to introduce (or reintroduce) you to Os Guinness, and his profound contributions to discussions about freedom, culture, faith, and the quest for meaning and purpose. Stephanie and Os start by discussing Os' latest book, a truly brilliant, magnificent little gem for all of us to be inspired by, and titled, Signals of Transcendence. The modern world is a place of great distraction, and it can be difficult to make sense of our human existence. But at some point in our lives, we may experience particular moments that prompt us to search for something deeper. Sociologist Peter Berger described these hints and clues as “signals of transcendence” that awaken us to unseen realities. In Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life, Os Guinness tells stories of people who experienced signals of transcendence and followed them to find new meaning and purpose in life. Notable figures such as Leo Tolstoy and C. S. Lewis as well as lesser-known individuals experienced a variety of promptings that signaled to them that life could not continue as they had thought. Through unsatisfied longings or disillusionments or glimpses of beauty or joy, these moments drew people toward epiphanies of transformation. And the same can be true for us, should we have the courage to follow the signals wherever they may lead. BONUS! READ A SAMPLE OF SIGNALS OF TRANSCENDENCE “I'm at a point in my life where I realize that there has to be more to life. Something must be missing.” This remark, made to me by a business leader in Silicon Valley, expresses what countless people come to see in their own way and say in their own words. Previously, they were mostly contented in some season of life; some were wealthy, successful, and even highly celebrated in one field or another. But they reached a point where they knew in their heart of hearts that none of it quite satisfied as they hoped. Who am I? Why am I here? What is life all about? Life raises such questions to all of us at some point, and certain experiences break into our lives that spur us to question whether our answers are deep enough, prompting a search for what we sense is missing—an unnamable something more. Life itself is extraordinary, and somehow, we all want to know what it is to live a worthy life, one that fulfills the promise of life. Peter Berger, the eminent social scientist, described the experiences that trigger such longings as “signals of transcendence”— arresting and intriguing experiences that both capture our attention and call for further explanation. The thrust of these signals points to some meaning beyond themselves, and they won't let us off the hook until we stir ourselves to find what it is. Such experiences puncture one's satisfaction with the status quo and push one to search for something beyond. The signals stir in us a sense that there must be something more to life, but what is that often unnamable something? In stirring us, signals of transcendence are a prompting by life itself, as it were. They trigger both a contradiction and a desire, and call into question the past, the present, and the future. They challenge the present and the past by contradicting the temptation to settle down and be satisfied. They challenge the future by spurring a desire to search for the something that is missing, that toward which the experience is hinting. In so doing, the signals lay bare some aspect of our human existence that we have forgotten or suppressed, at least partially— including things lost and left behind. Such aspects of a fuller and more complete reality must be rediscovered if life is to be lived to the full. Equally, an understanding of those aspects has to be grounded solidly if it is to be truly fulfilling. Hence the quest for faith and meaning triggered by the signals—the quest for meaning that is adequate and faith that is true. Follow the signals and discover more of the reality of who we are and what the universe and life are about; then our lives will be better aligned and more able to be free and fulfilled. Freedom, after all, is simply the ability to be who we are, to think freely, to speak freely, and to act freely. But who in truth are we, why are we here, and what is life about? The signal is power packed with the thrust of such questions.” (Taken from the introduction to Signals of Transcendence) MEET OS GUINNESS OS GUINNESS (DPhil, Oxford) has had a lifelong passion to make sense of our extraordinary modern world and to stand between the worlds of scholarship and ordinary life, helping each to understand the other—particularly when advanced modern life touches on the profound issues of faith. As a frequent speaker and prominent social critic Guinness has addressed audiences worldwide, from the British House of Commons to the US Congress to the St. Petersburg Parliament. He is a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics and was the founder of the Trinity Forum. Born in China to missionary parents, Guinness is the great-great-great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer. After witnessing the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to England where he was educated and served as a freelance reporter with the BBC. Since coming to the United States in 1984, he has been a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter, celebrating the First Amendment, and has also been senior fellow at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he drafted the Charter for Religious Freedom. He also coauthored the public-school curriculum Living with Our Deepest Differences. Guinness is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, The Magna Carta of Humanity, The Great Quest, Zero Hour America, and others. We invite you to check out the first episode of each of our series, and decide which one you will want to start with. 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 Join us for this incredibly special centenary episode of WAPIN7 - an unbelivable milestone for us, you, Tolstoy and surprisingly the animals of London Zoo. Chosen by our Patrons, the Zoo is of course the obvious place to go for this commemorative - likely collectable - episode and it's the natural venue to host a quiz about War and Peace.  We've got all the animals you might expect in a good quiz plus a few more: lions, gorillas, pigs, smurfs, snails, turtles, ants and even cows.Good luck in the quiz and thank you for listening and supporting the show, we love it, we love you - here's to the next 100 episodes!///patreon.com/wapin7 - Strum into action and support the podcast!wapin7.com/rate

This Quoircast podcast episode is brought to you by the book "What Can't Be Hidden" by Brandon Andess. Order your copy today here.In this new episode, Lola, Kyle, and Jason welcome Quoir Publishers and authors Matthew J. Distefano and Keith Giles for a conversation about censorship and its' high cost for society.Books you are going to want to check out after listening to this episode:The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo TolstoyAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis CarrollA Spring Harvest by Geoffrey Bache SmithSola Mysterium by Keith GilesThe Wisdom of Hobbits by Matthew J. Distefano (releasing March 14)Returning to Eden: a field guide for the spiritual journey by Heather HamiltonJoin the conversation on our Messy Conversations Facebook group.Don't miss our new compilation book, Parenting Deconstructed: Navigating Your Spiritual Evolution Without Leaving Your Family Behind, with chapters from some of your favorite heretics!Follow the crew:You can find Lola on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTokYou can find Kyle on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.You can find Jason on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (because he's way too old for TikTok.Want to be a producer of the show and get exclusive access to videos, blog posts, and merch from the hosts of the show? Check out our Patreon page!Thanks for listening! Please leave us a rating or review on your platform of choice! Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The guys discuss the film adaptation of WOMEN TALKING, a novel written by Miriam Toews that tells the story of colony of Mennonite women who are victims of obscene and grotesque crimes, meet in secret to decide their response and ultimately their future. The film adaptation received a limited release in theaters in December 2022 and stars Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand. The film was written and directed by Sarah Polley. Listen to the episode to find out how the film stacks up to the novel. (0:00) Excerpt from the novel… (0:49) Fast facts, Recap, Games… (10:53) A word from our sponsor… (11:16) Studio pitch & novel breakdown… (42:07) Trailer… (43:48) Learn you something, film differences… Other topics include the author's choice to have a male narrator taking meeting minutes as the novel's narrative structure, the important of setting, why audiobooks suck, and why this film may have received more love this award's season than SHE SAID. Our next episode will be on LIVING, an adaptation of the Russian novella written by Leo Tolstoy titled, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, as well as the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru, directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is about an English bureaucrat facing a fatal illness in 1950's London. The film adaptation has received rave reviews and two Academy Award nominations (Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay), and was directed by Oliver Hermanus, screenplay written by Kazuo Ishiguro, and stars Bill Nighy. If you would like to get in contact with us about anything regarding the show, feel free to shoot us an e-mail: littolens@gmail.com Or reach out on social media: twitter.com/littolens instagram.com/littolens

Buy this book with our affiliate links on Bookshop or Amazon! Our links: All links | PATREON | Merch | Watch on YouTube | Discord Socials: TikTok | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Show Notes: This week, Matt and Cameron dive into Parts 4 and 5 in Book 2 of War and Peace. If you read Anna Karenina and thought, I like these hunting scenes 500 pages in but I wish they were more brutal and had more undertones about the aristocracy - don't worry, we've got you covered here. And Natasha's upcoming marriage comes under pressure. Grab your finest elopement garments and strap in, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Major themes: "Uncles," Kissin' Cousins, Elopement but it's Kidnapping. 33:26 - When will you learn that your actions…HAVE CONSEQUENCES! The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube.

With the Academy Awards just around the corner, this week we take a look at some of our favorite book-to-movie adaptations. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a BookLover Books mentioned in this episode: 1- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 2- The Witches by Roald Dahl 3- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 4- The Martian by Andy Weir 5- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 6- Nightbirds by Kate J. Armstrong (published Feb 28, 2023) 7- A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy/narrated by Rosalyn Landor 8- The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard 9- A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar 10- Dune by Frank Herbert 11- Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence 12- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shafer 13- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 14- Emma by Jane Austen 15- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 16- Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka 17- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 18- We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver 19- Truman Capote by Gerald Clarke 20- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 21- Angels and Insects (Morpho Eugenia) by A. S. Byatt 22- The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 23- Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham 24- The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 25- Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan by Hildi Kang 26- Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda 27- All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham 28- Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns 29- Stealing by Margaret Verble Movies mentioned-- 1- The Pale Blue Eye (2022) 2- A Beautiful Mind (2001) 3- The Imitation Game (2014--based on Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges) 4- Dune (1984) 5- Dune (BBC, 2000) 6- Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) 7- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 8- All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) 9- Emma (2020) 10- Anna Karenina (2012) 11- Bullet Train (2022) 12- Little Women (2019) 13- We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) 14- Capote (2005) 15- Angels & Insects (1995) 16- The Woman in Black (2012) 17- Lord of the Rings series 18- Nightmare Alley (2021) 19- The Storied Life of A J Fikry (2022) 20- Taxi Driver (1976) Articles mentioned-- A Film That Makes Sex Scenes Look Like Works of Art, Shirley Lee, The Atlantic, Dec 2022

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What would two great writers from history talk about if they were to meet? We may not find that out, but when one translates the works of the other, what is evident is a sense of common concern, a shared worldview and a hat tip to the greatness of the other. When Premchand translated works of Leo Tolstoy, he didn't just use his vast and rich vocabulary to retell the great Russian's work in Hindustani, he took the story and drew its essence in a way that the story became Indian. Incidentally, if you listen carefully you'll recognize another work or two that may have been inspired by the original. Do let me know if you do! -------- मुंशी प्रेमचंद का जीवन परिचय : धनपत राय श्रीवास्तव जिन्हे साहित्य प्रेमी प्रेमचंद के नाम से जाने जाते हैं, हिन्दी और उर्दू के शायद सबसे अधिक लोकप्रिय रचनाकार हैं । उन्होंने सेवासदन, प्रेमाश्रम, रंगभूमि, निर्मला, गबन, कर्मभूमि, गोदान आदि लगभग डेढ़ दर्जन उपन्यास तथा कफन, पूस की रात, पंच परमेश्वर, बड़े घर की बेटी, बूढ़ी काकी, दो बैलों की कथा आदि तीन सौ से अधिक कहानियाँ लिखीं। उनके उपन्यास सुर कथाएं हिन्दी तथा उर्दू दोनों भाषाओं में प्रकाशित हुईं। अपने दौर की सभी प्रमुख उर्दू और हिन्दी पत्रिकाओं जमाना, सरस्वती, माधुरी, मर्यादा, चाँद, सुधा आदि में भी उन्होंने लिखा।वे हिन्दी समाचार पत्र जागरण तथा साहित्यिक पत्रिका हंस के संपादक और प्रकाशक भी रहे। इसके लिए उन्होंने सरस्वती प्रेस खरीदा जो बाद में घाटे में रहा और बन्द करना पड़ा। प्रेमचंद फिल्मों की पटकथा लिखने मुंबई भी गए और लगभग तीन वर्ष तक रहे। वे जीवन के अंतिम दिनों तक वे साहित्य सृजन में लगे रहे। ----- About this channel: On this Youtube channel, you can listen to Hindi and Urdu Stories by famous writers of Hindi sahitya/ literature. Here you will find stories and poetry by great authors of Hindi and Urdu. Some of these are classics and others are rare gems that you may never have heard or read. There are works by well known writers such as Premchand, Sharat Chandra, Manto, Ismat Chughtai, Mohan Rakesh, Phanishwar Nath Renu, Mannu Bhandari, Harishankar Parsai. Some are rare works by Dilip Kumar, Balraj Sahani and Gulzar. ----- Meet me at these Social Media links: Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/StoryjamArti My podcast on other platforms: Spotify open.spotify.com/show/0rG7ez0Pku1MuWhfvo6Dtz Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/storyjam-hindi-urdu-audio-stories/id1513845846 Gaana.com gaana.com/podcast/storyjam-hindi-urdu-audio-stories-season-1 RadioPublic radiopublic.com/storyjam-GmywpN Pocket Casts pca.st/rwdymlsd Overcast overcast.fm/itu #Hindi #StoryJam #premchand #premchandkikahani #premchandkikahaniyan #premchandkipremkahani #leotolstoy #russian #russianshortstory --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/storyjam/message

I'm on Silent Retreat with the Franciscans! Chat soon! I love you! Love each other!************************************** It's all Prayer, when you stay aware of God's Presence, when you're constantly calling His Name inside. Not because He's not there, and you're wanting Him to come to you,but because He is there and you're wanting your attention to stay there,to stay Here, on Him.On Love.On Silence. On God, this works. T R U S T. I Love you,Niknikki@curlynikki.comPlease help me keep the show ad free + Get Merch!▶▶https://www.patreon.com/goodmornings________________________________Today's Quotes: "You can talk to me when your heart is heavy.You can come to me when your thoughts are loud.Your heart is safe here.You are safe here."-@poetstribe via IG"Things still control you. Situations still cause you to react.All that has to go. To become free you have to be empty, no preconceived ideas, no concepts, no judgments, no human knowledge. You have to be completely empty. When you're empty you're like space."-Robert Adams"O Holy Trinity, One and Indivisible God, may You be blessed for this great gift and testament of mercy. My Jesus, to atone for blasphemers I will keep silent when unjustly sI reprimanded and in this way make partial amends to You. I am singing within my soul an unending hymn to You, and no one will suspect or understand this. The song of my soul is known to You alone, O my Creator and Lord! I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God.  I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years."-St. Faustina (Diary)"Give up everything to Him, resign yourself to Him, and there will be no more trouble for you."-Bhagwan Sri Ramakrishna"It's impossible to truly relax until we relax control."-Nicola Jane Hobbs"Jesus infinitely outweighs everything."- @Faithfulfootprints "Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."-Matthew 20: 26-28"We are asleep until we fall in Love."-Leo Tolstoy"Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."-Saint Teresa of CalcuttaSupport the show

Sevastopol by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1853-1856). The name originates from Sevastopol, a city in Crimea. The book has also been released under the anglicized title The Sebastopol Sketches and is sometimes titled Sevastopol Stories. These brief "sketches" formed the basis of many of the episodes in Tolstoy's magnum opus, War and Peace. Sevastopol in December: In Sevastopol in December, Tolstoy uses second person narrative (with the pronoun 'you') in an introductory tour of life in Sevastopol. The detailed tour is arguably similar to one Tolstoy may have been given upon arrival in Sevastopol in November, 1854…. Tolstoy also uses Sevastopol in December to introduce the reader to the settings, mannerisms, and background he uses in Sevastopol in May and Sevastopol in August. For example, when referring to the enemy, either the British or the French, but only the French are featured in the Sketches; they are referred to as " 'him', as both soldiers and sailors say". Sevastopol in May In Sevastopol in May, Tolstoy examines the senselessness and vanity of war. The story examines many aspects of the psychology of war, heroism, and the misleading presence of humanism in truces (misleading because countries continuously go to war with one another, despite past truces). Tolstoy concludes by declaring that the only hero of his story is truth.

What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. "The inner working of my soul, which I wish to speak of here, was not the result of a methodical investigation of doctrinal theology, or of the actual texts of the gospel; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine – a momentary flash of light, which made everything clear to me. It was something like that which might happen to a man who, after vainly attempting, by a false plan, to build up a statue out of a confused heap of small pieces of marble, suddenly guesses at the figure they are intended to form by the shape of the largest piece; and then, on beginning to set up the statue, finds his guess confirmed by the harmonious joining in of the various pieces.

Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice wishes to press on. They eventually get lost off the road and they try to camp. The master's peasant soon finds himself about to die from hypothermia. The master leaves him on the horse to stubbornly try to find the road. When he returns, he attains a spiritual/moral revelation, and Tolstoy once again repeats one of his famous themes: that the only true happiness in life is found by living for others.

My Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. "My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It describes his search for answers to the profound questions "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?", without answers to which life, for him, had become "impossible." Tolstoy reflects on the arc of his philosophical life until then: his childhood abandonment of his Russian orthodox faith; his mastery of strength, will, power, and reason; and how, after he had achieved tremendous financial success and social status, life to him seemed meaningless. After despairing of his attempts to find answers in science, philosophy, eastern wisdom, and his fellow men of letters, he describes his turn to the wisdom of the common people and his attempts to reconcile their instinctive faith with the dictates of his reason. The main body of the text ends with the author reaching a compromise: faith, he realizes, is a necessity, but it must be constrained by reason. However, an epilogue that describes a dream he had some time after completing the body of the text suggests that he has undergone a radical personal and spiritual transformation.

Dear Lovers of Great Literature — Thank you so much for listening to the show. If you would like more Shakespeare discussions, we have a library of lectures, guided readings, and bookish content at the Hardcore Literature Book Club at Patreon.com/HardcoreLiterature We are currently reading through the complete works of Shakespeare over the course of the year, and the discussion is incredibly rich and exciting.  In our back catalogue, we also have a deep dive lecture series into twelve specially curated masterpieces from William Shakespeare. This includes banquets of blood like Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, and sparkling comedies like A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and Much Ado About Nothing. In addition to Shakespeare, we have extensive lectures for writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky,  Cervantes, Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and many more. Across the course of 2023, we are journeying through War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Orlando, The Count of Monte Cristo, Invisible Man, The Lord of the Rings, the short stories of Alice Munro, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Gravity's Rainbow, and much more. You will be warmly welcomed to our little literary oasis! Happy reading, and have a lovely day. - Benjamin

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Shownotes: This week, Matt and Cameron dive into part 3 Book 2 of War and Peace to find the answer to an important question: is life over once you turn 31? And it's time to turn a little religious and a little conspiratorial with Princess Marya and Count Pierre. Nothing better than covering two years of life in around 100 pages. Grab your finest soiree attire, some champagne, and tune in! Major themes: Hottie or Nottie, Gnarled Trees, Illuminist Freemasonry 05:51 - Hollywood Access is, of course, legally distinct from Access Hollywood. Please don't fire me, NBC. 08:10 - He just like me fr The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon!

Tonight, I'll be reading Anna Karenina: Part Two, Chapters 1-3 by Leo Tolstoy Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the World's sleepiest podcast, designed to help you fall asleep through relaxing stories and hypnotic meditation. If you find this podcast effective, please consider subscribing, so you can stay up-to-date with new weekly episodes and fall asleep consistently, each night. Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review: Apple Podcasts - Spotify Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all of the sleepiest news: https://sendmetosleep.com/podcast/ Visit our website: Send Me To Sleep - World's Sleepiest Website Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sendmetosleepco/ Do not listen to this sleep story whilst driving or operating machinery. Please only listen to the Send Me To Sleep podcast in a safe place where you can relax and fall asleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading Anna Karenina: Part Two, Chapters 1-3 by Leo Tolstoy Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the World's sleepiest podcast, designed to help you fall asleep through relaxing stories and hypnotic meditation. If you find this podcast effective, please consider subscribing, so you can stay up-to-date with new weekly episodes and fall asleep consistently, each night. Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review: Apple Podcasts - Spotify Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all of the sleepiest news: https://sendmetosleep.com/podcast/ Visit our website: Send Me To Sleep - World's Sleepiest Website Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sendmetosleepco/ Do not listen to this sleep story whilst driving or operating machinery. Please only listen to the Send Me To Sleep podcast in a safe place where you can relax and fall asleep.

Boyhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s.

Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. After a brief romance, the 17 year old Marya falls in love with the much older Sergyei Mikhailitch, an old family friend, and the two are married. They share an initially blissful life but after moving to St. Petersburg, Marya becomes enchanted with society and a rift opens between the two. 

Childhood by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among Russian writers including Ivan Turgenev, and heralded the young Tolstoy as a major figure in Russian letters. Childhood is an expressionist exploration of the internal life of a young boy, Nikolenka, and was a new form in Russian writing, mixing fact, fiction and emotions to render the moods and reactions of the narrator. Childhood is Tolstoy's first published work. Translated into English by C. J. Hogarth.

Bethink Yourselves by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching. "However strange this may appear, the most effective and certain deliverance of men from all the calamities which they inflict upon themselves and from the most dreadful of all—war—is attainable, not by any external general measures, but merely by that simple appeal to the consciousness of each separate man which, nineteen hundred years ago, was proposed by Jesus—that every man bethink himself, and ask himself, who is he, why he lives, and what he should and should not do."

A Confession by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Leo Tolstoy's "A Confession," written in 1882 shortly after a life-altering spiritual crisis, is a brutally sincere reflection on life, morality, and the nature of faith. Tolstoy describes in great detail the process by which he lost his faith in established Christian churches, the meaninglessness of wealth and fame, the agony of acute depression, and how he overcame misery and dread through personal study of the teachings of Jesus Christ. Along the way, he contrasts the artificial faith and arrogance of educated people with the genuine faith and humility of the Russian peasant. This work, and others of its ilk, were aggressively censored by the Tsarist regime and directly led to Tolstoy being excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church.

From the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report to DICK BOVE's comprehensive new report on the US economy, this episode of ODEON CAPITAL CONVERSATIONS is a timely analysis on some of the key happenings and events on Wall Street. "Disappointing" is how MAT VAN ALSYTNE describes the latest CPI report published this week, showing a slight overall decline in January in the yearly inflation rate to 6.4 percent, and an uptick on a monthly basis. "I thought that this would be the one," said VAN ALSTYNE, co-founder and managing partner at ODEON CAPITAL GROUP, referring to his disappointment that the latest inflation numbers do not definitively show the Fed has taken control of inflation. "The Fed has never killed inflation until interest rates are above the CPI," he added later. What are the signs of recession? BOVE, chief financial strategist at ODEON, presents his in-depth findings including a battery of announced layoffs nationwide. VAN ALSTYNE points to the inverted yield curve. There are also signs of financial trouble in how the Fed navigates its campaign to tame inflation. One financial foot wrong could potentially torpedo the US economy as rising interest rates, debt servicing and the specter of inflation wreak havoc. Elsewhere the CONVERSATION picks up on a recent ODEON talk by Peter Zeihan, author of The End of the World Is Just Beginning. Joining the CONVERSATION is JOHN AIDAN BYRNE who pulls out a significant quote by Leo Tolstoy to calm nerves. Questions & Comments: Podcast@OdeonCap.com

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.    Leo Tolstoy   In this episode we're gonna talk about the language of love and why it matters. I'll share some ways Mike and I have missed the mark and how we're still learning and growing one day at a time. I'll also give you a tip that someone gave me years ago that I believe has been super instrumental in the flourishing of our marriage.

Er gehört neben Dostojewski und Tolstoi zu den drei ganz großen russischen Schriftstellern des 19. Jahrhunderts: Iwan Turgenjew, der Deutschland besonders liebte. Ein leiser Realist im Spagat zwischen Russland und West-Europa. (BR 2018)

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Shownotes: This week, Matt and Cameron dive into Book 2 of War and Peace and cover parts 1 & 2. In this part, we get the honor (you might say) of getting to compare child marriage plots, duels, and bullying of my! Grab your kvass of choice and get ready to get into War and Peace. Major themes: Child marriage, duels, battle plans 21:11 - National Treasure, truly the greatest American contribution to the arts. 36:03 - Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and LIterature by Irina Reyfman The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon!

GHOSTS, WITCHES, CLOWNS, BEARS as well as the HUMAN BEAN - we've got it all this week, as we descend deep into hell for this final episode of Book 7.You didn't expect it, we certainly didn't expect it, but yes - it's the end (already!) of the Book.  But if we're going, we're going in style: dinner - yes, kissing - check, chit chat with other worldly spirits - absolutely.So dry your tears, put your toys back in the pram, grab a bowl of jelly and join Will, Steve and the actual devil to say sayonara to Book 7.///patreon.com/wapin7 - Strum into action and support the podcast!wapin7.com/rate

The King James Version of the Sermon On The Mount audiobook. The Sermon On The Mount is one of the teachings in the ministry of Jesus Christ. In The Sermon On The Mount is found many sayings and important precepts held by Christian churches, sayings such as The Beatitudes, The Lord's Prayer, and other teachings about forgiveness, giving, and the "Golden Rule" about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you. Men such as Tolstoy and Gandhi found special meaning in The Sermon On The Mount, and Christians have read and listened to this important portion of scripture for centuries. The Bible version used for this reading is the King James Version. This traditional Bible has been praised for its poetic beauty, and imagery

If you're wondering where the first 9 trends in this list are…stop and go back to episode 70 to check out part 1! Let's get to it. 10. ChatGPT (as seen in episode 69): an AI that provides ideas for copy and design, lists, assistance, and leverages technology to save time.11. Influencer Marketing: becoming more popular among businesses, and it involves increasing usage by partnering with the right influencer in the right way.12. Streaming Ads: available on TV and movie apps and music services, and they actually allow you to call out to your local community and target your audience with local parameters.13. Facebook and Instagram Ads: still performing well when targeting a local audience.14. Youtube: Continuing to be a platform that allows you to connect with your audience and drive traffic to your website.15. LinkedIn: B2B platform with organic reach, where you can share videos, thought leadership articles, and ideas.15. Data Privacy and Security: be sure to be abiding by the terms and conditions.16. Chatbots: automate customer service and social media DMs (such as ManyChat), or check Tolstoy as an example on the Evolve page.17. SEO in Apps: captions that are more helpful for discovery through the use of keywords and hashtags, as well as better search algorithms.18. Virtual Reality: businesses can create an immersive experience for their customers with virtual and augmented reality.19. Automation: using scheduled tools and repurposing content with tools such as DeliverIt or Later.20. User-Generated Content: Utilize customer-created reviews and content as proof, and many times is more relatable and performs better.21. Social Listening Tools: use surveys to monitor industry needs and wants.22. Podcasts: an exploding industry and businesses can use them to build new audiences or even increase exposure by being a guest on shows.Now that I've finished my list, I hope you have some ideas for what tools and trends you see your business using this year. Maybe you even have a list running for the years to come! I can't wait to hear how these work for you!See you on the next CU!What's Inside:Top trends and predictions for social media and digital marketing.More on AI, how are people using this new tech to their advantage?Several tools and ideas to use automation in your business.Getting creative with content with influencer partnerships and UGC.How to take advantage of your local audience with various ad distribution ideas.Mentioned In This Episode:ManyChatTolstoyRegister for EVOLVE 2023cheers@crystaluncorked.comCrystal MediaCrystal on InstagramCrystal Media on InstagramCrystal Media Co - YouTube

Matt D., Executive Director All Addicts Anonymous (AAA) discusses the original AA pioneer program focusing on the Four Absolutes of Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, and Love. In this episode Matt and Father Bill explore the deeper meaning of Love. Each chooses a reading that may help addicts in recovery uncover new meaning in this the most challenging and perhaps most rewarding of the Four Absolutes. Readings are available in the Show Notes notes below. Show Notes: No Greater Love – Matt's reading from Sadhu Sundar Singh The Love Chapter (First Corinthians 13) – Fr. Bill's reading from Paul Sadu Sundar Singh Wikipedia Rev. Sam Shoemaker Wikipedia The Answer to Addiction by John Burns – early publication of Invitation to a Great Experiment by Tom Powers - pdf version The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis pdf version The Greatest Thing in the world by Henry Drummond – pdf version What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy – pdf version George MacDonald Scottish author – Wikipedia Check out the All Addicts Anonymous website with meeting information and contact Matt D. via email --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fatherbillw/support

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Childhoods of exceptional people, published by Henrik Karlsson on February 6, 2023 on LessWrong. Let's start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. If you want to learn writing, read great writers, etc. But this is not what parents usually do when they think about how to educate their kids. The default for a parent is rather to imitate their peers and outsource the big decisions to bureaucracies. But what would we learn if we studied the highest achievements? Thinking about this question, I wrote down a list of twenty names—von Neumann, Tolstoy, Curie, Pascal, etc—selected on the highly scientific criteria “a random Swedish person can recall their name and think, Sounds like a genius to me”. That list is to me a good first approximation of what an exceptional result in the field of child-rearing looks like. I ordered a few piles of biographies, read, and took notes. Trying to be a little less biased in my sample, I asked myself if I could recall anyone exceptional that did not fit the patterns I saw in the biographies, which I could, and so I ordered a few more biographies. This kept going for an unhealthy amount of time. I sampled writers (Virginia Woolf, Lev Tolstoy), mathematicians (John von Neumann, Blaise Pascal, Alan Turing), philosophers (Bertrand Russell, René Descartes), and composers (Mozart, Bach), trying to get a diverse sample. In this essay, I am going to detail a few of the patterns that have struck me after having skimmed 42 biographies. I will sort the claims so that I start with more universal patterns and end with patterns that are less common. Exceptional people grow up in exceptional milieus This seems to be true for >95 percent of the people I looked at. These naked apes, the humans, are intensely social animals. They obsessively internalize values, ideas, skills, and desires from the people who surround them. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional tend to have spent their formative years surrounded by adults who were exceptional. Virginia Woolf never attended school. Her father, Leslie Stephen, who, along with their tutors, educated Virginia and her sister, was an editor, critic, and biographer “complicatedly hated” by his daughter and of such standing that he could invite Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and Alfred Lord Tennyson to dine and converse with his children. Leslie Stephen described his circle, in which Virginia grew up, as “most of the literary people of mark . . . clever young writers and barristers, chiefly of the radical persuasion . . . we used to meet on Wednesday and Sunday evenings, to smoke and drink and discuss the universe and the reform movement.” When they went to the Hebrides in the summers, Leslie brought along painters and philosophers, who would hang out and work in their summer house while the children played. This parental obsession with curating a rich intellectual milieu comes through in nearly all of the biographies. As I wrote in First we shape our social graph; then it shapes us: Michel Montaigne's father employed only servants who were fluent in Latin, curating a classical culture, so Montaigne would learn Latin as his mother tongue. J.S. Mill spent his childhood at his father's desk, helping his father write a treatise on economics, running over to Jeremy Bentham's house to borrow books and discuss ideas. Blaise Pascal, too, was homeschooled by his father. His father chose not to teach him math. (The father, Etienne, had a passion for mathematics that he felt was slightly unhealthy. He feared mathematics would distract Pascal from less intrinsically rewarding pursuits, such as literature, much like modern parents fear TikTok.) Pascal had to teach himself. Wh...

In this edition of Channeling History, we delve into Russian history by interviewing the spirits of Leo Tolstoy and Tsar Nicholas II.  They recount how history is repeating itself for Russia and the Russian people.  Please tell your friends about our show.

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Our salvation depends on valuing Christ and his Kingdom above the entire collection of goods and experiences in the world. - Sermon Transcript - Turn to your Bibles this morning as we continue our study in the Gospel of Mark, and looking at just a couple of verses at the end of Mark 8. The end of Mark 8 is very powerful, a very rich set of scriptures, and I want to zero in on it this morning. As I do, I want to ask you a question. What is the most valuable thing on earth? When we think about value, value is usually economically evaluated by its price. The world’s entire economic system is based on setting a price for everything. Economists speak of the theory of price, which most people know as the law of supply and demand, probably you've heard of that. The price for any good or services is based on the supply of those goods and services, compared to the demand for them. In market economies around the world, the price of gold is high, because there's a very high demand and relatively low supply. Conversely, the price for salt is much lower. Because while there's a strong demand for it, it's so plentiful, the oceans are full of it, so the price is low. Have you noticed prices higher than a few years ago? Have you had any sticker shock at the supermarket at all? Perhaps you've had some sticker shock at the gas pump. We are in inflation now, we're told, so the prices are getting higher. I don't know what the remedy is. No, I'm not going there. I'm not spending the whole sermon on inflation. But we've noticed, the price of beef, the price of other things is just much higher than it used to be. When it comes to luxury items such, as a one-of-a-kind painting by a renowned artist like a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh, an art appraiser is skilled at knowing the history of art, the demand, the recent demand in the art market for an oil painting by one of those masters, what it's sold for at an auction in the past, and the prices is set accordingly. Luxury items like high-end watches, for example, like Patek Philippe, they set a range of prices based on entry level for that watch, $20,000. Can you imagine spending $20,000 on a wristwatch? But that's just entry level. They can go as high as $1.5 million. The prices are set by the quality of the materials, workmanship, the artistry, complications of the call, and demand. This price evaluation, the valuation of worth, of relative worth, is at the center of two of Jesus' parables, his most famous parables. They're in Matthew 13. The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went out and sold everything he had, and bought that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, one translation says, a “pearl of great price", he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. Market value and relative pricing are essential to both of those parables. In the first parable, the man, you can picture him digging in a field with a shovel maybe, and a shovel hits some metal, some clank or something like that. He hears the sound he's not used to hearing, so he spends more time digging and then finds, let's say a treasure chest. You could picture it that way, and he somehow gets it out. He pries off the lock, opens the heavy lid to this chest, and finds incalculable treasure inside. Jesus doesn't say what or how much, but this man knows it's the treasure of a lifetime. It's certainly worth more than the sum total of all of his possessions in his life. Everything he owns in the world is worth less than what's in that treasure box. He's filled with joy, because he knows that. He hides the treasure again, then sells everything that he owns to buy that field. The whole time he is filled with joy, because he knows the field & its treasure is worth it. The treasure in the box is worth greater than anything he owns in the world. In the second parable, the merchant is looking for fine pearls. That man is an expert in his field, and his field is pearls. He knows pearls better than anyone else. He's been studying pearls his entire life. One of the most precious commodities in the ancient world was pearls. Worth far more by weight than any other precious substance. He already has a collection of pearls. He's a pearl merchant. But he's constantly searching for more pearls, better pearls. One day, what a day, he finds the most perfect pearl he's ever seen in his life. He knows pearls like you don't know pearls. But this man knows his business, and he knows that this one pearl is worth more than his entire inventory. So, he sells all of those pearls, so he can have enough money to buy this one pearl, he gladly sells it to buy this one pearl. What is the treasure hidden in the field? What is the pearl of great price? I would argue, it is Jesus Christ himself. It is the kingdom. So I've heard, so it is. Jesus is worth more than anything that we have in this world. Our salvation depends on that kind of valuation, of valuing Christ and his kingdom above the entire collection of goods and experiences there are in this world. The merchant's mindset, valuation, pricing, esteem, weighing all of these skills tell you Jesus is worth everything. But maybe a corollary of that whole analysis, is the estimation of the worth of our souls, our eternal souls. We need to do the same kind of relative valuation, comparing the worth and value of our souls to the things that we could gain in this world. What is the marketplace or the market price for your soul? That's what these two verses ask. Look at verse 36- 37, "What would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world yet forfeit his soul?" Or, what can a man give an exchange for his soul? "What is the marketplace or the market price for your soul?" At the end of your life, your life of achievement, you will stand before Christ and give him an account on Judgment Day. The issue hanging in the balance on Judgment Day is the eternal destiny of your soul. The central point of this text and of my sermon is this, your soul has infinite worth, infinite value, more than the net worth of the entire world. Your soul will either be eternally alive, living in the presence of God in heaven, or eternally dying under His wrath in hell. The world and all of its pleasures and pains is passing away, and will soon disappear, but your soul will endure forever in one of those two places. Thus, Jesus is warning us to make certain that we don't lose our soul. I . Understanding the Context in the Gospel of Mark Let's step back now for a moment and understand the context. The last time I preached on Mark, I preached on what I considered to be, and still do, the greatest challenge of your life or mine as a Christian, the challenge to deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Jesus. That has a context. Jesus is there with His disciples in Caesarea Philippi talking about His identity. “Who do people say that I am? What about you? Who do you say that I am?” Then you have Peter's full confession, in Matthew, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus then makes this shocking prediction to His disciples. Verse 31, 32, "Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priest and teachers of the law and that he must be killed and after three days rise again, he spoke plainly about this. Peter was shocked, and took Jesus aside,", verse 32, ..."and began to rebuke him. Never Lord.", he said, "This shall never happen to you." Then Jesus turns, and doesn't do it privately as Peter sought to do, but publicly rebuked Peter because He knew that Peter was speaking for all of them. They all would've said it. He rebuked Peter, verse 33, “'Get behind me, Satan,’” He said. ‘You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men. ‘“ Then He issued that call to the crowd and to all of His disciples, the call indeed to the whole world. “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.'" Peter's immediate motive in rebuking Jesus was not so much concern about Jesus, although Jesus was the center of his hopes, certainly that was there. But we have to imagine that his concerns were selfish. Peter's conceptions of his own future were wrapped up in Jesus, the king and Jesus' kingdom as he understood it. He wanted to save his life in this world, as he conceived it, and he wanted in so doing, to make it as rich, and pleasureful, and comfortable, and powerful, and we could add some other things, as he could. That's what he wanted. Jesus said to him, "You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of man." You're thinking in a human way about my kingdom, not in God's way. As we walked through last time, He gave this call. “Deny yourself is to say no to yourself, to your selfish drives, your selfish agenda, your fleshly yearnings. Say no to that. Say no to yourself. Take up your cross means be willing to die for me and for the gospel. Follow me means to obey me, to obey what I tell you, and to imitate me.” And Luke adds, do it daily. Deny yourself daily. Take up the cross daily. That's the context then of the statement we're looking at today. But here, in these verses that we're looking at, Jesus turns up the intensity further. The call on the disciples is to realize that anything that hinder them from following Christ was actually an ultimate threat to them, a threat to their eternal happiness. He wanted to give the disciples a sense of the immense worth and value of the soul. "For what would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul? Or what could a man give in exchange for his soul?” From this text, I want to focus on two issues, the world and what it means to gain it, and the soul and what it means to lose it. Then I want to zero in on Jesus' two questions. What would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and yet forfeit his soul? And what would a man give in exchange for his soul? I want to seek to sharpen these questions to a fine point. I'm going to urge you to be absolutely certain that your soul's final state is of the utmost importance to you, that you have a proper valuation of your soul. I want to plead with you to be certain that your sins will be forgiven through faith in Jesus, and that you'll be welcomed on that final day into heaven and not cast away into hell. To help you do this, I'm going to focus next week more on kind of the final thing, the inducement and the warning, there's an inducement and warning. We're going to develop that more next week. In verse 38 it says, "If anyone's ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him, will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His father's glory with the holy angels?" And then Matthew's version of this account, Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of Man is going to come in His father's glory with His angels and then He will reward each person for whatever he has done.” Judgment Day is coming, and so the inducements are positive to be in that world of glory called heaven. And they are negative, that you would not be condemned to the world of torment. Those are the inducements. II. The World and What It Means to Gain It Let's zero in on the first, the world and what it means to gain it. Look at verse 36, "What would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" First of all, no one has ever accomplished this, though many have tried to do it. Jesus is clearly using hyperbole. He's using an exaggerated statement to make a point. Many empire builders of all ages have sought to control the world and have been unable to do so. The largest empire in history by sheer land mass, contiguous land mass, was that of Kublai Khan, Genghis Khann’s descendant, the Mongolian empire in the year 1260. That was the peak, 12.8 million square miles, larger than the Soviet Union, five times larger than the empire of Alexander the Great. However, for all of that, they only achieved 24.6% of the habitable land mass of the earth, which has 52 million square miles of habitable land. They tried, but that's as far as they got, and they didn't hold it for long. Others have sought to just kind of corner the market on one little part of the world. Like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company, at its pinnacle of influence, owned 90% of the petroleum industry in the world. What would that be worth today? 90% of the petroleum industry in the world? As a result of that control, Rockefeller was the first billionaire in the world. Some valuations of John D Rockefeller's fortune put him at present value of $420 billion. Perhaps the richest man in history, depends how you read it. So he, for a little while, controlled most of the oil, just the oil. During the age of the great American industrialists, the titans of industry were always seeking a monopoly in one form or another. Railroads with the Vanderbilts, Carnegie with his steel, J.P. Morgan with his finance, but no one could control all in any of those areas, even though they tried to do it. But Jesus is saying, even if you could gain the whole world, if it cost you your soul, it wouldn't be worth it. The world is attractive, you should admit it. Certainly, Psalm 73 speaks a beautiful theological truth in verse 25, "Whom have I in heaven but you and earth has nothing I desire besides you." That's beautiful, and it's true ultimately, but frankly, the world is alluring. It is appealing. The world has some natural attractions to us that are not corrupt. The world is physically beautiful, the beauty of the earth. There's the pleasures of food, and travel, and entertainment, and hobbies, a good novel, an exciting movie, an absorbing board game, sports, things like that. The value of the esteem of other people. The satisfaction of earthly successes in business, or in academics, or athletics, or other fields of endeavor. All of those should be enjoyed as good gifts of God. But any and all of them can become idols, if they become the reason for your existence. "The satisfaction of earthly successes in business, or in academics, or athletics, or other fields of endeavor. All of those should be enjoyed as good gifts of God. But any and all of them can become idols, if they become the reason for your existence." When we talk about the allure of the world, the lusts of the eye, the lusts of the flesh, the boastful pride of life, 1st John 2 talks about that, the allure, all of those things are ultimately empty. Power, for example. The most powerful military conqueror, and the most successful military conqueror in history, Alexander the Great, never lost a single battle in 12 years of campaigning. But at the end of his conquest, he didn't want to stop, but his army mutinied, way out near the Indus River in India. They were done. Battle after battle, he just sat down and wept that there were no more battles to fight. Picture him weeping there, and ask him what pleasure all this conquest brought him? He was dead soon after that. What about wealth? The wealthiest man from the ancient world was a king named Croesus, the King of Lydia, in modern day Turkey. He ruled from 560 to 545 BC. Gold from the mines, and from the sands of the river Pactolus, filled his coffers to overflowing, an overwhelmingly wealthy man. But all that did is attract the attention of a certain Cyrus the Great of Persia, who paid him a visit with his army, and then sentenced him to be burned to death alive. As the flames drew near, you could well imagine, that the wealth of Croesus brought him no joy at all. He would gladly have traded all of it to live another day. What about wisdom? Solomon was said to be the wisest man that had ever lived up to that point, but his wisdom brought him no ultimate happiness. He wrote in Ecclesiastes 1:18, "For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." The more knowledge, the more grief. Some of the most brilliant, some of the most intelligent people in history, have struggled intensely with depression and mental illness. Then there's fame. I don't actually know why anyone would want that. But I remember, thinking about fame when back in 1992, the Olympics in Barcelona, they put together the Dream Team, the basketball team which had Michael Jordan. There was a documentary made about the Dream Team, and Jordan was walking along the street, and the camera stopped and panned back, and there was this huge poster, hanging down the side of a six-story building of Michael Jordan dunking. So there's the real Michael Jordan under this massive six story big poster, and he just kind of looked up at himself dunking. But if you look at famous people like him, he couldn't go out of the hotel room at night without being mobbed like a rockstar. Some famous people are constantly hounded by paparazzi and and would yearn for a simple life of obscurity. Fame wasn't all that it was cut out to be. What about pleasure and a world craving pleasure? Some people it seems, have cornered the market on hedonism. They go from one kind of pleasure sight to the next. They drink in the best foods, finest of wines, the most beautiful scenery. I remember reading a book by a venture capitalist, Tom Perkins, who sank $150 million into what was at that time, the largest privately owned sailboat in the world. That was his goal, the Maltese Falcon. But the pleasure of that distinction apparently lasted only one year, because some other mogul built a bigger one, and then Tom Perkins sold his. It just didn't bring in much joy after that. Then there's beauty, physical beauty. I think about Hollywood movie stars, female movie stars, who are willing to trade their health for constant cosmetic surgery to stay in the game, but they can't oppose the continual march of time. I wonder if there are some that have seen their beauty fading, and seen spots in movies being given to younger starlets, and they know their moment has passed, and how depressing that is. All of these allurements are part of God's physical world. None of them are evil in themselves, but all of them have led countless souls astray in their quest. What does it mean to gain the world? It's power, wealth, wisdom, fame, pleasure, beauty. Death stands over every one of these, and turns them all to dust in the wind. III. The Soul, and What It Means To Lose It But how much more agony would come to the damned when they consider for what paltry things they exchanged their immortal souls? Satan is willing constantly, in some way, to stand and broker a trade. Remember the temptation of Jesus? He offered him all the kingdoms of the world in his splendor. He would've given the entire world to Jesus, but Jesus didn't accept it. There's a famous story well known of Dr. Faustus and the Faustian bargain. The whole idea of selling your soul to the devil. Dr. Faustus, in that book, makes a deal with the devil in exchange for his body and soul, that he gives to the devil in the end. The man is to receive supernatural powers, and pleasures, successes, for twenty-four years. The devil agrees to the trade. Dr. Faustus enjoys the pleasures of sin for a season, but his doom is sealed. At the end of the twenty-four years, Faustus attempts to thwart the devil's plans, but he meets a frightful demise, nonetheless.In common speech when somebody's doing really, really well, sometimes you'll hear it's like they must have sold their soul to the devil for it. Something like that. That's where that whole idea comes from. I want you to know, theologically, Satan has no such authority to make a trade. Satan's going to be very busy on Judgment Day. He will be condemned to the Lake of Fire himself. He has no such power. But he is the one behind the world system that's alluring souls astray. That's what it means when it says the whole world lies in the power of the Evil One. What is the soul, and what does it mean to lose it? What is your soul? It's more than merely your inner self, like your true self, or your very self, something like that. The idea by that is that, by pursuing worldly things, money, fame, power, pleasure, you'll no longer be true to yourself. You'll kind of lose your true identity kind of thing. You'll stop being the person you want to be. None of your friends that you grew up with will know you anymore. They won't recognize you. You'll have a big head, you'll have been changed. All of that's true, I think, usually, but that's not what Jesus is talking about. Not at all. For He goes on to discuss the terrorist Judgment Day after the Second Coming. I think it's more than just your physical life, just being alive. The ESV in Matthew 16:26 gives you that sense by its translation."For what would it profit a man if he gains the whole world in forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?" I understand that's a valid way to translate the Greek word behind it, but I don't think that's what Jesus is talking about here. A number of years ago, I came across a story by Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does a Man Need? I've quoted a number of times in a number of sermons, and not going back through it again. But in that story, the central character of the home is just constantly moving on to get a bigger, and bigger, and bigger, chunk of Bashkir land, and ends up literally physically dying, and by the effort, and they take the shovel that he carried with him in the circuit as he was going along this land, and they dug six feet down and buried him. That answered the question Tolstoy was asking, how much land does he need? That much, enough to bury him. Again, I don't think this is what Jesus is referring to. It is true that the pursuit of these things can have detrimental physical effects on you, it might even lead to your death. But that's not what Jesus is talking about here. We know that, because He's actually challenging His disciples to be willing to die as martyrs, literally to die physically, for Him and for the kingdom. Some will, his apostles, most of them did die as martyrs. That doesn't make sense. It doesn't line up, that’s not what he's talking about, your physical life on earth. Whoever wants to save his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. So that's not what He's referring to. No. The soul of verse 36, Mark 8:36 is more than that. The soul is that core center of your being. The immaterial part of you, that is able to have a love relationship with God, both now and eternally. It is able to be conscious, aware, it knows, and can relate to and love God. That's what the soul is. It makes you the person you are, unique. To love God, to speak to God, to obey God, to choose God, the core of your being. That's what the soul is, an immaterial part of you housed in the tent of your bodies. Peter talked about the husk, the flesh of your body that was housed there. Physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. The concept of an immortal soul is not from Greek philosophy, as some scholars will tell you, it's a biblical concept. For what would it be that is absent from the body but present with the Lord but your soul? There is an immaterial part of you that's housed in your body, that's your soul. What does it mean then, to lose your soul? To lose your soul would be to be condemned to hell by Jesus, the judge of all the earth. The soul is in peril, in grave danger, of perishing. As in John 3:16, "What would it profit someone if he or..." John 3:16, "For God's so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not," what? "Perish." What's the perishing there? It's hell. It's dying forever in hell, where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched. To hear Jesus, the judge of all the earth say, as in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." That's what it means to lose your soul, to hear that spoken about you. That's what it means to lose your soul. In Luke 16, the rich man was in agony in hell. He yearned for Lazarus to come dip his finger in the water, and cool his tongue in the fire. That's what it means to lose your soul, to be there, in eternal conscious torment. How does that happen? How is the soul thus lost? Jesus in our text pits the pursuit of the world against the welfare of the soul. The seeking of the whole world here, in this sense, is the enemy of your soul. Deeper still, the Bible's answer to this vital question is simple, "By sin is the soul lost,” unforgiven sin. As Jesus makes it plain, souls are lost by Judgment Day's evaluation, the evaluation of the judge of all the earth of your life choices, of what you did with your life. Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His father, with His angels, and then He will repay every man according to his deeds." That's Judgment Day. So the great issue of your life is simply this. Will I lose my soul on Judgment Day or not? IV. Jesus’ Two Piercing Questions To make this clear, He then asks these two penetrating questions, both focus on the terror of that moment on Judgment Day. First of all, a question of profit, verse 36, "What would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" So here He uses business terms, gain and lost. It's accounting terms in the Greek. Like profit and loss in an accountant's ledger book. It has to do with relative value and worth. The clear implication is, that the eternal soul is worth more, is worth more than any physical thing in the universe. That's the logic of this. It's an astonishing thought. All of the gold, and the silver, and the diamonds, and the real estate, and all the stuff, the physical stuff of the, if you added it all up, it comes short of the value of a single human soul. That's the logic here. There's not a single human being on earth for which that is not true. It doesn't matter how high or low a person rises economically. You could imagine some orphan in a city, somewhere in Bangladesh, picking through garbage. It would be foolish for that orphan to trade his or her soul for the entire world, physical world, it'd be foolish. So also, the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, same thing. It would be foolish for that individual to trade their soul for the entire world. It would not make a difference if it was an addict, strung out on heroin in Amsterdam, it would be foolish for that person to trade their soul for the entire world. There are no worthless human beings. For no matter what their outward condition, no matter how high or low they've attained in the achievements of the world, how educated or literate, wealthy or poor, it doesn't matter. They have a possession of infinite value, their soul. And to forfeit, to lose that soul, is the most terrifyingly foolish thing that any person could ever do. "All of the gold, and the silver, and the diamonds, and the real estate, and all the stuff, … if you added it all up, it comes short of the value of a single human soul." Then, it's a question of exchange in verse 37, "Or what would a man give in exchange for his soul?" Again, the language of commerce, of making an equitable trade. I can hardly say the next sentence in my sermon. Imagine yourself hearing, concerning you, this dreadful sentence. "Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." And then, a holy angel is dispatched to tie you hand and foot, and throw you outside into the darkness where there'll be weeping and mashing teeth. The horror of it comes crashing down. You can scarcely believe that it refers to you. You always tried to be a good person, basically a good person, but none of that means anything. You cherish memories of good deeds, or religious moments in your life, or a notion that a God who condemned people is not a God you wanted to be with anyway. All of these things don't mean anything at that moment. All of that reasoning will be blown away like a wispy cobweb at that moment. For now, the sentence has been spoken of you. As you're nearing the searing heat of the Lake of Fire, what would you give in that moment in exchange for your soul? Of course, it'll be too late then, because you'll have nothing to give. Everything you thought was yours, wasn't yours, it was a stewardship. It's all been taken from you. But imagine, just for argument, that it hadn't. Suppose you still retained your whole, the lot, all of it still yours. What percentage of it would you give at that moment? Up to half for your soul? What would you give in exchange for your soul at that moment? What wouldn't you give? That's the point here. Then it will be too late. The time to face these two questions is now. "I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation." [2 Corinthians 6:2]. So the question goes back to your present life. The moment is now. When you can decide what you will love, what you'll pursue, what you'll do with your life, what exchanges you can make. What would you give now that your soul might be saved? We're not saved by the exchange. you're saved by simple faith in Jesus, like the thief on the cross. You don't earn anything by the exchange, none of that. But we're just following the logic of this verse here. Is there anything that you now possess that you fear that you would lose if you turned to Christ and followed him fully? Get rid of that fear, it’s hindering your soul. Are you afraid of losing the esteem of your unsaved friends if you followed Christ? Are you afraid of losing a lucrative career if you followed Christ? Are you afraid of not having fun in life if you follow Christ? The pleasures, and joys, and possessions, and freedoms, what do these verses say to you? Cast those fears aside. They are the enemy of your eternal soul. Which of those things could you rightly say, "That's too big a cost for me to pay for my soul. God, you can have anything but not that.” Is there any such thing for you? V. Jesus’ Two Compelling Reasons Now, Jesus' two compelling reasons. We'll walk more thoroughly through them next week, God willing, the coming judgment and the coming glory, these are the reasons why. Verse 38, "If anyone's ashamed of me and of my words and this adulterous and sinful generation of him, will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in His father's glory with the holy angels?" Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of Man is going to come in His father's glory with His angels and then He'll award each person according to what he has done." Jesus' two great arguments for wisdom about gaining the whole world are clear. Judgment Day is coming, with the terror and threat of hell standing over every human being on the face of the earth. And secondly, eternal glory is coming. He's coming in the father's glory. The new heaven, the new earth are going to be lit up with that beauty and that glory. You don't want to miss it. Those are the inducements to making a wise choice when it comes to the gospel. VI. Application First and foremost, of course, repent and trust in Christ. That's the pressure of these verses. Trust in Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Jesus came to save lost people. The Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost. That's the issue here of losing a soul. Jesus came to save your soul. Do you not see the infinite worth of Jesus' blood? How one man, the God man, in one day bought the souls, the infinite souls, of a multitude greater than anyone could count from every tribe, language, people, and nation. It says in Revelation 5, "By your blood, you have purchased people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation." In one day He bought them. Incredible. The worth and value of Jesus's blood. Trust in Christ. Jesus took into himself the wrath of God. As I was driving this morning here with my daughter, Daphne, we were talking about that story about Elijah, Elijah with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. The nation was thoroughly corrupt, and pursuing Baal worship, and also Yahweh worship, depending what day of week it was, I guess. Synchrotistic, worshiping one, worshiping the other. Remember that whole story? They're all there, Elijah and the prophets of Baal, and they're having a contest. There's been drought, drought, drought, drought on the land. Everybody's desperate for rain. Elijah had prayed that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain for three and a half years. Now the time has come for God to deal with the sin that led to that curse, so they're all assembled there. Elijah said, "How long are you going to limp between two opinions? If Yahweh is God, follow him. If Baal is God, then follow him.” But the people remained quiet, kind of sitting on the fence. Disgusting. The prophets of Baal can't do anything. Now it's Elijah's turn, now it's God's turn. Elijah builds that altar, puts the animal sacrifice on it, pours a bunch of water on it, and just leaves it there. Then he prays. You remember what happened? Fire came from heaven, fire. Now here's the interesting thing. I'd never thought of this before this morning. All the people wanted was rain, water coming down from heaven. But before the water could come, what has to come down from heaven first? Fire. The holy wrath of God on that sinful people. Do you see where it came down? What did it come down on? It came down on the sacrifice. It came down on the substitute, not on the people, and that animal, like all animal sacrifice, represents Jesus. That's what Jesus drank for you and me on the cross, that we would not lose our souls. Should you not be thankful to Him if you're a Christian? Say, "Thank you, Jesus, for drinking fire for me." So come to Christ, let him be your substitute. Let him drink the wrath you deserve. Let him take away the condemnation that you deserve. Examine yourself. Make certain that you have trusted in Christ, that your sins are forgiven, that you don't lose your soul on Judgment Day, that you never hear those words spoken about you. But that's not all. Meditate on the infinite worth of every single person you meet this week. They all have infinitely valuable souls, all of them do. Most of them are on their way to hearing those words spoken about them. Do we have a responsibility toward them on behalf of their infinite souls? We're supposed to value their souls more than they apparently do. And we do that by evangelism. The very ministry we heard about today, international ministry. We can get involved in that. But there are other kinds of ministries. You don't have to wait for a ministry. You can share the gospel with your unsaved coworker this week. Say, "I heard the most interesting sermon. Can I share with you?" Just do that tomorrow. See what God does. We have a responsibility to the lost souls that are around us, each of them of infinite worth and value. Close with me in prayer. Father, we thank you for the beauty, and the perfection, and the power of your word. Word of God, living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. We pray that it would penetrate into our souls and save us. Save us from sin, save us from condemnation, oh Lord. And then Lord, send us out, unleash us. Help us to take these ideas and share them with people who need to hear them, who desperately need to hear the truth. We are accountable for the people you brought into our lives. Help us to tell them the truth. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Kirsty & Carissa enjoy an unfairly maligned, highly stylized film adaptation of Tolstoy's classic romance/tragedy/political criticism, featuring many hot people, much gossip, the theatricality of passion, and aristocracy in Russia. Topic: Anna Karenina (2012), dir. Joe Wright Theme: "Make It Ours" by Evermore

Shownotes: This week, Matt and Cameron finish up the first section of War and Peace by covering Book 1, Part 3. They'll be delving more into the Kuragin family and their shared habits (and even some shared facial expressions), and keeping up with the military boys as they meet their idols…and have very different reactions than expected. Grab your reluctant wedding champagne and tune in! Major themes: The Pettiness of Great Men, Bad Fathers, Vacant Expressions 02:53 - Ohio actually has produced seven presidents. And, yes, I did learn this from a Phil Ochs song. I'm not apologetic. He may not be from Ohio, but he's its best export. The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon! You can join our Discord through our LinkTree.

New episodes beginning Feb 7. This episode originally aired in June 2021. Like her contemporary Herman Melville, New England writer Elizabeth Stoddard was a critical success—Nathaniel Hawthorne himself was a fan, and she was compared to Tolstoy, George Eliot, Balzac, and the Bronte sisters—but her books failed to find an audience when they were published. Join us as we discuss Stoddard's brilliant novel The Morgesons and its bold and inimitable heroine with guest Rachel Vorona Cote, author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.Discussed in this episode: The Morgesons by Elizabeth StoddardToo Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)James Russell LoweNathanial HawthorneHerman MelvilleEdgar Allan PoeHenry JamesGeorge EliotBull RunTwo Men by Elizabeth StoddardTemple House by Elizabeth StoddardRamona QuimbyJane Eyre by Charlotte BronteDorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot“The Goblin Market” by Christina Rosetti  Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteThe Green Parrot by Marthe Bibesco on Lost Ladies of LitSt. Cecilia“Tell It Slant” in VQR by Rachel Vorona CoteFor episodes and show notes, visit: LostLadiesofLit.com Follow us on instagram @lostladiesoflit. Follow Kim on twitter @kaskew. Sign up for our newsletter: LostLadiesofLit.com Email us: Contact — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast

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It is rumoured that Shakira wrote her global smash hit single after being inspired by a perfect bowl of oats. The, now infamous, story goes that Shakira was so moved by the oats that she demanded a harp was bought to the table so she could express her joy and appreciation through music. Upon completion of the song; she triumphantly held her bowl of half eaten oats aloft and announced to the stars, "Don't you see, baby, this is perfection?!"Absolutely none of that is true. How and why does this relate to book seven of War and Peace? We hear you scream!There's only one way to find out...///patreon.com/wapin7 - Strum into action and support the podcast!wapin7.com/rate

Tonight, I'll be reading Anna Karenina: Part One, Chapters 32-34 by Leo Tolstoy. Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the World's sleepiest podcast, designed to help you fall asleep through relaxing stories and hypnotic meditation. If you find this podcast effective, please consider subscribing, so you can stay up-to-date with new weekly episodes and fall asleep consistently, each night. Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review: Apple Podcasts - Spotify Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all of the sleepiest news: https://sendmetosleep.com/podcast/ Visit our website: Send Me To Sleep - World's Sleepiest Website Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sendmetosleepco/ Do not listen to this sleep story whilst driving or operating machinery. Please only listen to the Send Me To Sleep podcast in a safe place where you can relax and fall asleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading Anna Karenina: Part One, Chapters 32-34 by Leo Tolstoy.  Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the World's sleepiest podcast, designed to help you fall asleep through relaxing stories and hypnotic meditation. If you find this podcast effective, please consider subscribing, so you can stay up-to-date with new weekly episodes and fall asleep consistently, each night. Enjoying the show? Leave us a rating and review: Apple Podcasts - Spotify Sign up for our newsletter to stay up-to-date on all of the sleepiest news: https://sendmetosleep.com/podcast/ Visit our website: Send Me To Sleep - World's Sleepiest Website Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sendmetosleepco/ Do not listen to this sleep story whilst driving or operating machinery. Please only listen to the Send Me To Sleep podcast in a safe place where you can relax and fall asleep.