Podcasts about Little Gidding

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures.  The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/christian-studies

In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding', the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot's experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding' presents us with an apocalyptic vision of purifying fire. Suggesting that humanity can survive warfare only through renewed spiritual unity, Eliot finds a model in Little Gidding, a small village that for a time in the 17th century served as an Anglican commune before its closure under Puritan scrutiny. Mark and Seamus explore how Eliot's poetics heighten our sense of the liminal and mystical, and how, by ‘scrambling our brains', Eliot's brilliant rhetoric subsumes his bizarre politics.Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4dbjbjGIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings Further reading in the LRB:Frank Kermode: Disintegrationhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v16/n02/frank-kermode/disintegrationHelen Thaventhiran: Things Ill Done and Undonehttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n17/helen-thaventhiran/things-ill-done-and-undoneTobias Gregory: By All Possible Arthttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n24/tobias-gregory/by-all-possible-art Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the second half of our special bonus episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates continue their conversation with Malcolm Guite. The group briefly discusses the third of of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, The Dry Salvages, before diving into the grand finale, Little Gidding. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. A free version can be accessed online here.   Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: podcasts@cac.org Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail   We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7th, 2024. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

In this fourth dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on quartet four, Little Gidding. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. A free version can be accessed online here.   Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: podcasts@cac.org Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail   We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7th, 2024. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

What sort of working life involves caring for the mentally ill, lecturing in economics, and inspecting the neatly piled-up bones of a hermit monk? It could only be Robert Van de Weyer, an economist, award-winning author and Anglican priest, who joins Jordan and Jacob in this episode to discuss his fascinating vocation, from its origins in India, via the Ethiopian Empire and the Little Gidding community, to the heart of Cambridge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today is a day of invitations and explorations.   Throughout the day, during the service and beyond, we are invited to observe the Children's Sabbath, a day inspired by the Children's Defense Fund, when faith groups celebrate childhood and tune into the concerns of children, youth, and families.  We will celebrate our children in a few ways:  To begin, we remember the children of the previous generation in this altar frontal made by Grace Cathedral's young people ~25 years ago.  And we celebrate our own childhood by tapping that quiet compass within us.  Later, during the offertory, some of our young people will present their Creation-tide-artwork.  And at coffee hour today, our youth program welcomes you to a screening of the film of their social justice youth pilgrimage to the American South last summer.   Today's invitation in the children's sabbath is about more than demonstrations though;   like a wedding banquet, this invitation is to witness and to welcome new life in love.  Walter Brueggemann wrote, in the presence of God, (we) are visited, “with the freedom of God, so that we are unafraid to live in the world, able to live differently, not needing to control, not needing to dominate, not needing to accumulate, not driven by anxiety.”1   This is the joy described of childhood, but also the life possible when we are present to God.  It's the sort of freedom of perspective and grounded joy found in TS Eliot's poetic imagery.  With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling, TS Eliot wrote, We shall not cease from exploration.  And the end of all our exploring  Will be to arrive where we started  And know the place for the first time.   Through the unknown, unremembered gate  When the last of earth left to discover  Is that which was the beginning.   At the source of the longest river  The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree . . .   Not known, because not looked for  But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.  Quick now, here, now, always--  A condition of complete simplicity  Today, when we mark the children's sabbath, we take this day of rest and restoration, of union with God . . . to realize the divine in our youngest . . . to focus on children, and to find the simplicity of the Great Commandment, to love them as ourselves . . .  In a time of anxiety . . . this stillness . . . to climb the apple tree, to stand between the waves, to find the center point, can seem as out of reach as our own childhood.  Yet, in a time of brutal war, amid cascading atrocities, of unrelenting bad news and the seeming disintegration of the ground beneath us, we need this stillness, this union with God, more than ever.   Our practice and our readings today show us a way forward.  “When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come make gods for us, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”  With Moses gone a moment too long, God's people decided to count on a more expedient deity . . .    This part of the Exodus story with its sense of remove from God, is the story of our search for easy replacements and is evidently as old as human history . . .   We look for easy idols of course, and we become, as TS Eliot wrote, distracted from distraction by distraction.2  Between the Israelites distraction and God's response, Moses stood in the breach . . . between what is wrong and what is just, we too are called, to enter the gap and to speak for those who cannot – to find a way to make things right.   Today's children's sabbath serves as an alternative to the Golden calf distractions that take us away from the life we are called to join.   The sabbath invites us to begin listening for God's guidance for the nurture of children, to understand their challenges, and to discern actions to empower, protect, and seek justice for all children, youth, and families.      Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of The Children's Defense Fund made our call as Christians clear, writing this,  Let the little children come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven, Jesus said.  He did not say let only rich or middle-class white children come.  He did not say let only the strapping boys but not the girls come.  He did not say let only the able-bodied children come.  All the children He bade come.  He did not say let all my children or your children or our friends' children or those in our families and neighborhoods and who look and act and speak like us come.  He did not say let only the well-behaved nice children come or those who conform to society's norms.  He did not say let a few, a third, half, or three fourths come – but all.  Jesus said let the little children come and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of heaven.  The Kingdom of Heaven.  We have been hearing a lot about it in Matthew these past few weeks, and the parable today takes what seems a heavy turn.  There was conflict between Jesus and the religious leaders of the time, and a growing threat from Rome.  But Matthew's Gospel points to a much higher order conflict as well— humanity's most vexing tension – seen in Exodus and again in Matthew today – our default to try to live without God.   In this parable of invitations-ignored-and- scorned, Jesus refers to our invitation to life with God together, especially in these most challenging times.   Another part of the TS Eliot poem Little Gidding reminds us why we do this in a faith community:   If you came this way,  Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season,  It would always be the same: you would have to put off sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity  Or carry report. You are here to kneel.  We came here to kneel, and on this Children's Sabbath, the creaks our bodies feel when we lower ourselves, may be become aches not for the needs of our own bodies, but those of children and youth in this country and around the world.   We pray for the underrepresented, the marginalized, orphans, the overlooked, the undervalued and underserved, the misunderstood children of our time.   We pray for the immediate cessation of violence on all children around the world, at and within our borders as well, and we pray for policies that ensure children's security and safety, for their wellbeing, hope and joy, for their part in God's creation, their part in the building of God's vision for the world.  And finally, we pray that from God's invitation we might open our hearts further to discern the needs of the children in our community and beyond.  “When God wants an important thing done in this world or a wrong righted, Edmond McDonald wrote, “God goes about it in a very singular way.  God doesn't release thunderbolts or stir up earthquakes.  God simply has a tiny baby born, perhaps of a very humble home, perhaps of a very humble mother.  And God puts the idea or purpose into the mother's heart.  And she puts it in the baby's mind, and then – God waits.  The great events of the world are not battles and elections and earthquakes and thunderbolts.  The great events are babies, for each child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged with humanity but is still expecting goodwill to become incarnate in each human life.”  Children remind us of the goodness and hope promised in our faith life, and our faith life w God gives us all we need to bring about the world our children need and deserve.  United with God, fed at this table, we have all we need to change the world beyond these walls.  And then . . . our invitation tells us,   We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring  Will be to arrive where we started  And know the place for the first time.   Amen.   

Today we're answering a listener question on how to do traditional Anglican prayers as a family. "One of the dirty little secrets of Anglican family prayer and catechism is that none of us thinks we're doing all that we should be doing." ~Fr. Isaac Rehberg  Notes: A Faith for Generations: A Family Prayer Guide in the Anglican Tradition "Little Gidding" The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Catechesis Books Parents as Pastors by Fr Charles Erlandson 1928 BCP "Offices of Instruction" 1928 BCP "A Catechism" Anglican Catechesis Podcast The Anglican Household as a "Protestant Monastery"

Alan Noble joins Jessica to discuss the 20th century Elliot's process of looking back into his tradition as the means of of writing poetry. The pair focus on The Four Quartets with an emphasis on the final of the four poems, Little Gidding while setting the stage of T.S. Elliot's life and situation during the writing of what is considered by many, including Elliot, to be his finest work. "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T.S. Elliot Collected Poems of T.S. Elliot, T.S. Elliot You Are Not Your Own, Alan Noble The Scandal of Reading is sponsored by Brazos Press. Information on the Host:  Jessica Hooten Wilson is a Senior Fellow at Trinity Forum, the inaugural Visiting Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University, and the author of several books, including The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints, Learning the Good Life: From the Great Hearts and Minds that Came Before, and Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O'Connor and The Brothers Karamazov.  Learn more about Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson. Information on Alan Noble: O. Alan Noble, Ph.D., is editor in chief of Christ and Pop Culture and an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He received his Ph.D. from Baylor in 2013. He and his family attend City Presbyterian in OKC. You may not follow him on Twitter. Learn more about Alan Noble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alan Noble joins Jessica to discuss the 20th century Elliot's process of looking back into his tradition as the means of of writing poetry. The pair focus on The Four Quartets with an emphasis on the final of the four poems, Little Gidding while setting the stage of T.S. Elliot's life and situation during the writing of what is considered by many, including Elliot, to be his finest work. "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T.S. Elliot Collected Poems of T.S. Elliot, T.S. Elliot You Are Not Your Own, Alan Noble The Scandal of Reading is sponsored by Brazos Press. Information on the Host:  Jessica Hooten Wilson is a Senior Fellow at Trinity Forum, the inaugural Visiting Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine University, and the author of several books, including The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints, Learning the Good Life: From the Great Hearts and Minds that Came Before, and Giving the Devil his Due: Flannery O'Connor and The Brothers Karamazov.  Learn more about Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson. Information on Alan Noble: O. Alan Noble, Ph.D., is editor in chief of Christ and Pop Culture and an assistant professor of English at Oklahoma Baptist University. He received his Ph.D. from Baylor in 2013. He and his family attend City Presbyterian in OKC. You may not follow him on Twitter. Learn more about Alan Noble Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Irving Babbitt was the architect of New Humanism. He was also T.S. Eliot's mentor at Harvard. But in 1928, the newly Anglican Eliot's essay criticizing his old mentor's humanistic project was published, which provoked a terse, and sharp, rebuke from Babbitt. What is the relationship between traditional religion and humanistic learning? Can humanism provide society with the standards needed for democratic life? In this episode, we take a look at Babbitt's and Eliot's writings on the subject.T.S. Eliot's The Humanism of Irving Babbitt: https://muse.jhu.edu/document/374T.S. Eliot's Second Thoughts About Humanism: https://muse.jhu.edu/document/408Irving Babbitt's Democracy and Leadership: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780913966556Jay Parini's Irving Babbitt Revisited: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3856831The Davenant Institute's Reforming Classical Education: https://davenantinstitute.org/reforming-classical-educationT.S. Eliot's Little Gidding: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/history/winter/w3206/edit/tseliotlittlegidding.htmlNew Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

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“Travel is one of the few activities we engage in not knowing the outcome and reveling in that uncertainty. Nothing is more forgettable than the trip that goes exactly as planned.” –Eric Weiner In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Eric discuss the tendency of travelers to idealize the very recent bygone past in places, and Rolf's experience of traveling by freighter ship (2:00); Eric's satisfaction in returning to places he's visited before, such as India, and how to remain open to uncertainty and surprise on the road (9:30); how conversations about travel differ from generation to generation, culture to culture, person to person (20:00); what it was like for Eric to have his book The Geography of Bliss adapted into a TV show, and the nuances behind the concept of "happiness" (28:30); how the experience of travel is inevitably intertwined with the experience of home (38:00); how luxury hotels can insulate you from the experience of a place, and how "adventure travel" is modern concept (43:30); and how Eric's relationship to home, and to time, has changed over the years (58:30). Eric Weiner (@Eric_Weiner) is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. His books include The Socrates Express, and The Geography of Bliss, which is being made into a six-part docu-series, featuring actor Rainn Wilson, and due to air on NBC's Peacock streaming service. For more about Eric, check out https://ericweinerbooks.com/ Notable Links: Philosophy compels us to live better (Deviate episode) Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss (TV series) The Vagabond's Way, by Rolf Potts (book) Boatswain (deck boss on a freighter ship) Seven Pillars of Wisdom (book by T.E. Lawrence) Eric Weiner's Atlas of Ideas (email newsletter) Keitai denwa (Japanese mobile phone culture) Grunge (1990s alternative music culture) K-Pop (Korean popular music) Hangul (Korean alphabet) World Happiness Report Rainn Wilson (TV actor and producer) Quilts for Kids Nepal (nonprofit organization) Ibn Battuta (medieval Moroccan traveler) Beryl Markham (aviator and author) Kamba (ethnic group in Kenya) Thar Desert (arid region in India) The Geography of Genius, by Eric Weiner (book) Yi-Fu Tuan (Chinese-American geographer) "Little Gidding" (poem by T.S. Eliot) Uffizi Gallery (museum in Florence) Teaism (DC-based teahouse) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

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Matt is joined by Know Your Enemy favorite Sarah Jones to discuss her recent New York Magazine essay, "An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic." They discuss their shared religious upbringing and college years among fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, why Sarah became an atheist (and Matt didn't), and the reasons she reopened the question of God's existence during the pandemic—and what she did and didn't find along the way. Other topics include: C.S. Lewis, the nature of rituals, how we hold our beliefs, and more!Sources:Sarah Jones, "An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic," New York Magazine, October 11, 2021Andre Dubus, "A Father's Story," from Selected Stories (Vintage)T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets (1943)C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (HarperOne)...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes.

T. S. Eliot is arguably THE poetic voice of the early 20th century, and is a perennial favorite of mine. His justly famous FOUR QUARTETS mixes the brilliance of his early poetry with the wisdom of age in his post-conversion Christian work. Eliot considered it his masterpiece, and it was certainly important in his winning the Nobel Prize. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Christian Atheist finds in this Christian convert a thinker and a poet of profound voice and inspiration. This is the fourth of his Four Quartets,  "Little Gidding." Enjoy! If you'd like to support us, donate through Paypal at Romanschapter5@comcast.net https://www.youtube.com/c/TheChristianAtheist/featured  https://www.facebook.com/JnJWiseWords  https://wisewordsforyouroccasion.wordpress.com  #poem #poetry #verse #literature #aestheticliterature #aesthetic #rhythmic #phonaesthetics #soundsymbolism #metre #prosaic #literarycomposition #poet #ambiguity #symbolism #irony #poeticdiction #muse #prosody #meter #metricalpatterns #rhymescheme #tseliot #eliot #fourquartets #burntnorton #eastcoker #thedrysalvages #littlegidding

In this episode:We look at the importance of having an adequate connection with the great treasures of human wisdom.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or  question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).For more on living a symbolic life:Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.Sources for quotes and more:“It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted assumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past..." ~ C.G. Jung from Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5.'“Our primitive ancestors, [homo sapiens], are primitive only with regard to their tools and technology...." ~ Reza Aslan in 'God: A Human History.'Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing“All the creative power that modern man pours into science and [technology] the man of antiquity devoted to his myths.” ~ C.G. Jung from Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5.'"Much learning does not teach understanding." and “Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” ~ Heraclitus (Philip Wheelwright translation). "We think we are able to be born today and live in no myth, without history. That is a disease, absolutely abnormal." ~ C.G. Jung from The Houston Films in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'"The stars leading or inspiring human life cannot be the falling stars in the sky of a summer night of the latest fashion.” ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'The Rhythm of Being.' “Our task and our responsibilities are to assimilate the wisdom of bygone traditions and, having made it our own, to allow it to grow."  ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'The Rhythm of Being.' "Dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress." ~ C.G. Jung from The Psychology of the Child Archetype in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.' "That was the first event which broke through my isolation. I became aware of an affinity; I could establish ties with something and someone." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'Theogony  by Hesiod (Richard Lattimore translation).“Poetry is to religion what analysis is to science.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'"Their function was to reveal the deep meaning of existence to the new generations and to help them assume the responsibility of being truly [human] and hence of participating in culture." ~ Mircea Eliade in 'Rites and Symbols of Initiation.'Duino Elegies #9 by Rainer Maria Rilke.When Death Comes by Mary Oliver.Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot.Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie. My Twitter thread on Shklovsky. Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist. Professor Caryl Emerson. "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation. T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bkam/message

George Herbert is arguably the foremost devotional lyric poet in the English language. Prodigiously gifted, his intention to serve as an Anglican priest was interrupted by the positions he was offered in public service. He functioned for seven years as Public Orator at Cambridge University before briefly serving in Parliament. He returned to his initial vocation, however, by serving as the rector of the little parish of St Andrew's Church, Lower Bemerton, Salisbury. And it is there that he in all likelihood wrote the personal devotional poems - in English, Latin, and Greek - that are now his greatest legacy. Shortly before his death at the age of 39, he sent a literary manuscript to Nicholas Ferrar, the founder of a semi-monastic Anglican religious community at Little Gidding, recommending that he publish the poems if he thought they might "turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul", and otherwise to burn them. In 1633, Ferrar published all of his English poems in The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. They were received with great public approval and reprinted regularly throughout the seventeenth century.

This week's guest is Matthew Lee Anderson, author of The End of Our Exploring: A Book about Questioning and the Confidence of Faith. All of us have questions about God, the purpose of life, the problem of evil, and other serious issues. How do we ask those questions in a manner that honors God, and how can Christians create communities in which people feel free to explore? Also in this episode: The odd place Amy tried to read the book, an epic mix-up of nomenclature, and a reading from T.S. Eliot.Links related to today's guest:Buy on Amazon.comMatt's official websiteBook pageTwitterMere OrthodoxyMere Fidelity podcastFurther reading for this episode:"Little Gidding" by T.S. Eliot"Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke as read by the late Dennis Hopper

Today's poem is an extract from a longer poem by Eliot - looking at the nature of exploration and what we find when we seek for it.

1. Joan's Waltz - Oliver Scanlon (Burlington, VT). This gently swinging waltz by Oliver is from his 2014 solo album, The Pond Jam. www.petesposse.com  2. We Shall Not Cease, from Little Gidding, by T.S. Eliot. Read by Charis Boke (Springfield, VT).  3. Chasing Horizons - Eric McDonald (Montréal, QC). This song is from an EP by Connor Garvey, a singer/songwriter from Portland, ME, which features Eric on mandolin. It's an EP of songs he wrote while he was on a ship sailing from Portland to Iceland. Eric says, “It has that sense of contemplative space and endlessness that I always associate with the sea, and somewhat what I feel when I listen to your podcast. You can visit Connor’s website to hear about it in his words.”  www.chasing-horizons.com  4. Transfusion, an excerpt from Songs to A. H. R. by Cale Young Rice, read by Julie Vallimont (Brattleboro, VT).  5. Flor de Canela - Mary Lea (Brattleboro, VT). This traditional Mexican song from Michoacán State is played by Mary Lea - violin; Lise Brown - flute; Kate Barnes - piano; Ralph Gordon - bass. From Between Two Worlds, by Mary Lea & Friends.  6. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field, read by Nils Fredland (Hartland, VT). Fiddle accompaniment by Rachel Panitch (Boston, MA).  7. Row On - MAC (CA and WA).  This traditional song is performed by the band MAC, featuring Elias Alexander, Ryan McKasson, and Colin Cotter. It is found on their album Perfectly Manufactured Reality. The song tells a story of hope and perseverance on the seas. www.tunesbymac.com  The opening music is “The Pearl in Sorrow’s Hand” by Julie Vallimont, from her album Dark Sky, Bright Stars.  Produced by Julie Vallimont. Mixed and mastered by Dana Billings.  All content courtesy of the artists, all rights reserved. This series is supported in part by the Country Dance and Song Society.

After a brief delay, the panel concludes its review of Eliot's Four Quartets with a discussion of Little Gidding, focusing on its cyclicality, pentecostal imagery, connexions to Dante's Commedia, and what the poem suggests about the communion of saints.

After a brief delay, the panel concludes its review of Eliot's Four Quartets with a discussion of Little Gidding, focusing on its cyclicality, pentecostal imagery, connexions to Dante's Commedia, and what the poem suggests about the communion of saints.

It was the height of WWII when T. S. Eliot published his masterpiece, The Four Quartets (1943). England was locked in a bitter fight with the Nazis. Yet in poems like "Burnt Norton" and "Little Gidding," Eliot pays tribute to that most German composer, Beethoven. Why would he do this? This special episode features an audio essay/documentary narrated by Aakanksha Virkar Yates (University of Brighton), as well as noted Eliot scholars Sir Christopher Ricks (Boston University), John Xiros Cooper (Prof Emeritus, University of British Columbia), and Frances Dickey (University of Missouri). Special thanks to Alan Hall at Falling Tree Productions, London, which produced this documentary. Thanks to Rachel Shelley for readings of Eliot's prose/poetry. Included are archival recordings of Beethoven by the Lener Quartet. This documentary was made possible through the University of Brighton Rising Stars award. Thanks to Blue Dot Sessions for additional music. For more information about Assay: The

I was invited back to my alma mater to offer a sermon to the Formation Program of students studying for ordained ministry. December 4th is the Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar and the Community of Little Gidding.

Today’s program takes a look at how poems may consider the idea of “happiness” and how some poets may write “happy” poems. The focus, in that consideration, is that happiness may have to do with a sense of contentment. In that light, “happy” poems may reflect a certain contentment in a certain circumstance at a certain time.  That is today’s foundational theme.  I read poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder (by way of Eliot’s “Little Gidding”), Katia Mitova, Arisa White, and Gina Athena Ulysse that resonate with such momentary contentment – with happiness – and I end with a poem of my own that presents a similar theme.

In honor of National Poetry Month, Chris and Annie are back to talk about their favorite poems, collections, and the words they've gotten stuck in their heads over the years. Poets, poems, books, and collections mentioned this week: + Mary Oliver + William Wordsworth + "If" by Rudyard Kipling + "Mine Own John Poins" by Thomas Wyatt the Elder + John Donne, including "Holy Sonnet 10" and "Holy Sonnet 14" + Percy Shelley, including "Ode to the West Wind" and "Ozymandias" + John Milton, including Paradise Lost and "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" + "The Lanyard" by Billy Collins + "Orion" by Adrienne Rich + Emily of New Moon by L. M. Montgomery + The End We Start From by Megan Hunter + T. S. Eliot, including "Little Gidding," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and The Waste Land + Emily Dickinson + She Walks in Beauty by Caroline Kennedy + Robert Frost + Shel Silverstein + A Year of Nature Poems by Joseph Coelho and Kelly Louise Judd + A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by Fred Rogers + Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong + On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (on sale in June) + Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar + Space Struck by Paige Lewis (on sale in October) + Millennial Roost by Dustin Pearson + A Family is a House by Dustin Pearson + Parse by Ruth Baumann + Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing + 1919 by Eve L. Ewing (on sale in June) + Rupi Kaur + Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander + Tracy K. Smith + Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib You can listen to Ruth Baumann's episode of From the Front Porch here. Thanks, as always, to Forlorn Strangers for the use of our theme music. Learn and listen more here. Listen to a full back catalogue of our show here, and, if you're interested in some exclusive content like Chris and Annie's Unpopular Opinions, consider supporting us on Patreon here.  

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot – Little Gidding – Last Movement – a reading by Ron Starbuck

10/28/2018 Isaiah 60:15-22 & Revelation 21:1-5 Chris Breslin   “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” -T.S. Eliot (from Little Gidding in the Four Quartets)   “The sin-ruined creation of Genesis is restored in the sacrifice-renewed creation of Revelation.” –Eugene Peterson […]

The end has come for Shield of Tomorrow as we discuss the final episode. Come join us for the final send-off for the crew of the USS Sally Ride.Hosts:Az Hann - @captain_tinyCraig Blackwood - @vkmSpougeCato Prowse - @catoakacatoLaurent Tirta - @pablackhawk_KC Colman - @DJPheonyxMitch Campbell - @kungfupanzerEditor/Producer:Laurent TirtaPatreon Associate Producers:Patch Perryman - @Patch_AdamLinks and Show Notes:We have a Patreon!“Little Gidding” by T.S. Eliot“Rejoined” - Dax encounters the Kahn symbiont again and struggles with breaking taboo“SOT Endings” By Leland Cox

Peterson's 2nd rule is "Treat Yourself Like Someone You are Responsible for Helping." What is it about people that makes many of us more likely to take care of our pets and less likely to take care of ourselves? Or why are so many of us willing to dole out sound advice but not take it? We tell our loved ones that it's important to exercise regularly, as we sit around eating burgers and failing to exercise. If we are to take care of any entity in the world, it seems we will do the worst job in taking care of ourselves. In this episode I discuss the relation to Peterson's profound rule by diving into The Myth of Prometheus and Pandora Ayn Rand's theory of Epistemology Leonard Peikoff's "Objectivism the Philosophy of Ayn Rand" Richard Mitchell's "The Gift of Fire," And T.S. Eliot's The Little Gidding poem I hope by the end of this you will respect Your Promethean gift.

Peterson's 2nd rule is "Treat Yourself Like Someone You are Responsible for Helping." What is it about people that makes many of us more likely to take care of our pets and less likely to take care of ourselves? Or why are so many of us willing to dole out sound advice but not take it? We tell our loved ones that it's important to exercise regularly, as we sit around eating burgers and failing to exercise. If we are to take care of any entity in the world, it seems we will do the worst job in taking care of ourselves. In this episode I discuss the relation to Peterson's profound rule by diving into The Myth of Prometheus and Pandora Ayn Rand's theory of Epistemology Leonard Peikoff's "Objectivism the Philosophy of Ayn Rand" Richard Mitchell's "The Gift of Fire," And T.S. Eliot's The Little Gidding poem I hope by the end of this you will respect Your Promethean gift.

.....................................LITTLE.GIDDING................................... Brian McBride - Overture (For other halfs) Little Gidding by TS Elliot (Read by Tom O'Bedlam) Stars of the lid - Articulate silences (Part 1) Nils Frahm and Anne Muller - Aussenseiter Colleen - Les ondes silencieuses Deaf center - Divided Aaron Martin - Water tongue Julia Kent - Empty states Deaf center - Animal sacrifice Library tapes - Achieving closure II Bing & Ruth - Postcard from brilliant orange Clint Mansell with Kronos quartet & Mogwai - The last man Patrick Watson - The things you do Dover beach by Matthew Arnold (Read by Tom O'Bedlam) Micah P. Hinson - A call to arms Animal hospital - His belly burst Grouper - Made of metal Sonic youth - Marilyn Moore Coelho radioactivo - Olha que tarde By Paulino http://www.mixcloud.com/jorgempaulino/ http://www.phase108.net/Show.aspx?podcastId=9

Podcasts of Canon Mark Oakley talking about TS Eliot’s Four Quartets at St Paul’s Adult Learning reflective day in April 2016. TS Eliot’s Four Quartets is a classic in the great tradition of Western spirituality. By turns mystical, musical, philosophical and fragmentary, the Four Quartets scrutinise our relationship to time, the universe and the divine. In these podcasts, Mark Oakley first introduces the whole sequence, and then in the following four podcasts explores each of the Quartets by turn. The first two podcasts are rerecorded after the event as the podcast was lost, and the last three are ‘live’.

The Rev. Professor Jane Shaw preached a sermon titled “Pilgrimage" on October 8, 2017 at Stanford Memorial Church. The readings for the sermon was Deuteronomy 16:13-16, Reflection by Yitzhak Yasinowitz, Four Quartets, from T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding,” and A Reflection on Pilgrimage by Sughra Ahmed.

Professor Belinda Jack examines the power and impact of T.S. Eliot's works 'The Four Quartets': http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/poetry-and-exile-t-s-eliot-four-quartetsThese poems retain a stubborn opacity and no interpretation is ever wholly satisfactory. The difficulty of Eliot's poetry is partly a function of the poems' dense allusions to so much other poetry. But by exploring the idea of exile in relation to locality and the idea of space more abstractly, the shape of Four Quartets as descriptive of a spiritual journey comes into better focus. Autobiographically it is clear that Burnt Norton, the house and its extensive gardens, East Coker, and above all the religious community at Little Gidding, matter greatly to our understanding of both Eliot's life and also his poetry. But the antithesis of place, that is the idea of exile from place, is equally important.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/poetry-and-exile-t-s-eliot-four-quartetsGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,800 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege

The Contrapasso in Inferno vs. corrective punishment in Purgatorio.  The proud bent down, the envious blinded.  Sapia's guess that Dante can see: but she's not envious of him for it.  Virgil's exposition of love at the very center of the Divine Comedy in Purgatorio 17.  T.S. Eliot's Dantesque imitation in Little Gidding.

“And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.” In this strange passage from Little Gidding, poet T.S. Eliot links the mental image of a rose to the image of an infolded knot of flame. We see the connection; yes, a rose does look something like a knot of fire. Much has been written about intuition and creativity. Most of it is wrong. Allow me to explain; Intuition is merely pattern recognition, a principal function of the right hemisphere of your brain. Centered in that wordless realm, intuition whispers, “I've seen this movie, or one similar to it, so I think I know how it ends.” But your right brain is without word-language, so this thought must emerge in your consciousness only as a hunch, a gut feeling, a precognition, an inexplicable insight. When such insights flow unrestricted from the right brain to the left and then out through the tip of a pen, they become powerful, poetic language, such as that of T.S. Elliot above. When from the tip of a brush, fine art. And when from the point of a draftsman's pencil, a new invention. Intuition and art, indeed all “creativity,” is based upon seeing the link between two dissimilar things that have no obvious connection. Gutenberg connected coins to books and invented the printing press. The link between them: duplication. “Gosh, if a coin die will stamp an image onto countless pieces of metal to make coins, couldn't the same be done with letters of the alphabet to make the pages of a book? All I would need is something to hold the movable letters in place that could then be easily lifted up and pressed down. A wine press! I'll use the plate of a wine press to hold the letters!” And the world was changed that day. Your left brain is the home of sequential, logical, analytical thought – business thought – always seeking to forecast a result; “What is the next step? How do I get to the next level? What would be correct?” For those familiar with the Myers-Briggs instrument, left-brain preferences are identified by the S and J designations. Your right brain is the place of complex, fantastical abstract thought, ever seeking to find a pattern. (Obviously the N and P preference in Myers-Briggs terminology, though to my knowledge the MBTI people have never acknowledged these preferences to be rooted in Dr. Roger Sperry's brain lateralization. http://wizardacademy.org/academydescription.asp?ID=27 (Dr. Sperry's findings on the two hemispheres of the brain and their respective functions earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1981.)) When the right brain begins to out-shout the left, we begin seeing connections and patterns that aren't really there. Ever see the Russell Crowe movie, A Beautiful Mind? Badda-bing, badda-bang, a right brain goes out of control and now you've got a genius weirdo on your hands. (Chances are you know at least one person who fits this description.) Symbolic thought is the key to discovery. We'll talk more about it next week. Unless, of course, the beagle in my brain gets a whiff of something more interesting and then arooo! aroo-aroooo! we're off and running. That Russell Crowe character got nothin' on the beagle. Yours, Roy H. Williams