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Words to Live With
Beatrice Institute Podcast
12/21/20 • 83 min
Marilyn McEntyre is a steward of words. She has taught courses on English and medical humanities, and she has written or edited over twenty books, including Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Marilyn joins Elise to discuss the meaning of four words: dwelling, compassion, truth, and awe. Marilyn discusses why she loves participles and how “Christianese” can constrict the meaning of a word. She also reads three of her own poems and explains the background and inspiration of each.
Words as building materials
How space shapes us
Particularity and universality
A productive relationship between loneliness and dwelling
Touch deprivation
The strength and resilience of compassion
Christianese
Our relationship to Industrial food system
A broader examination of conscience
Truth as embodied and relational
The act of translation
Convicted civility
Why do we lie?
Relationship between death and awe
Accompanying the dying
Links:
Dwelling in the Text by Marilyn McEntyre
Word Tastings: An Essay Anthology by Marilyn McEntyre
Teaching Literature and Medicine by Marilyn McEntyre
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies by Marilyn McEntyre
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Should Trees Have Standing?: Law, Morality, and the Environment by Christopher D. Stone
I MARRY YOU: A Sheaf of Love Poems by John Ciardi
Free Solo, Strong Loves, and the Limits of Critique with Rusty Reno
Beatrice Institute Podcast
10/19/20 • 58 min
Rusty Reno is author of several books and editor of First Things, an ecumenical journal of religion and public life. His conversation with Ryan covers his conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism, the scholars and books that have most influenced him, and why he thinks fear is an enemy to solidarity. They also discuss Rusty’s legendary climbing fall, his climbing escapades in Yosemite in the early 80s, and how he went from being a “climbing bum” to a Yale PhD student.
Biblical studies and modern theology
Why rock climbing is good for scholars
Vulnerability as a threat to freedom
Captivity to the resume
The danger of fear
Anti-globalization based on love of homeland
Fear as an enemy to solidarity and love
Links:
In the Ruins of the Church by Rusty Reno
“Theology in the Ruins of the Church” by Rusty Reno
Sanctified Vision: An introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible by John O’Keefe
Readings in St. John’s Gospel by William Temple
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
The Ordinary Transformed by Rusty Reno
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West by Rusty Reno
A Revelation of Grief and Wonder
Beatrice Institute Podcast
09/21/20 • 79 min
Amy Alznauer is a polymath: she is a writer, arts collaborator, and an instructor of calculus and number theory at Northwestern University. Amy and Elise’s conversation touches on all of these things. Amy tells us about why she started writing picture-book biographies and what the genius of childhood can teach grown-up readers. She and Elise dive into Flannery O’Connor’s unpublished early novel, the grief that motivated O’Connor’s writing, and the recent controversy surrounding a New Yorker piece on O’Connor and racism. They wrap up the conversation by investigating what makes infinity simultaneously compelling and terrifying and the relationship between math and love.
Publishing in a pandemic
The work of imagination in biography writing
Reinvestigating childhood books
Grief, staring, and the grotesque in the work of Flannery O’Connor
Flannery O’Connor and racism
The difference between moral vision and piety
Thinking about the infinite
Mathematics and love
Links:
Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell
The Strange Birds of Flannery O’Connor by Amy Alznauer
The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity by Amy Alznauer
The Zhou Brothers: A Story of Revolution and Art by Amy Alznauer
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor (includes the essay “The King of the Birds”)
“On Flannery O’Connor and Race: A Response to Paul Elie” by Amy Alznauer
“How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?” by Paul Elie
“This Lonesome Place” by Hilton Als
“A South Without Myths” by Alice Walker
Benny Andrews illustrations and afterword for “Everything That Rises Must Converge”
Intentional Catholic Neighborhood Community with Katie and Brandon McGinley
Beatrice Institute Podcast
05/25/20 • 41 min
Katie and Brandon McGinley live with their four children in an intentional Catholic neighborhood community. Brandon is a Catholic writer, and Katie is a retired librarian and full-time homeschooler. They discuss how their community began and how they’ve grown since then. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced them to think creatively about community building, and they share the ways they’ve safely stayed in touch with and supported the people they’re close to. They also look to the future, covering what it will be like coming out of lockdown and how they hope to see Catholic communities grow as a result of the pandemic.
Community Begins with Friendship
Organization and Growth of Communities
The Spontaneity That Comes from Having a Stable Community
How Big Can a Neighborhood Community Grow?
Modeling Communities on the Present
A Quarantine Holy Week
Being Social while Respecting Social Distancing
How Quarantine Could Change Religious Communities
Links:
Brandon’s Plough Article The Noonday Devil by Jean-Charles Nault Real Learning: Education in the Heart of the Home by Elizabeth Foss
Where Do Bioethics Begin? with Michael Deem
Beatrice Institute Podcast
01/24/24 • 61 min
As a bioethicist and Catholic deacon-in-training, Dr. Michael Deem has spent years in the medical trenches as well as in theological and philosophical research. Michael Deem joins Grant in this episode to answer questions such as, “Do bioethicists actually change minds?” “Does healthcare flourish under a provider-of-services model?” and “Are bioethical principles self-evident?” Their discussion covers territory from contraception to logic to the style of recent Catholic popes.
The Fate of the Post-Industrial Man with Richard Reeves
Beatrice Institute Podcast
01/16/23 • 55 min
Do men need equal opportunity? Dr. Richard Reeves answers with an emphatic “yes.” His work as senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative has encouraged him to author the book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It.
In this conversation, Grant and Dr. Reeves respond to the fact that men are underrepresented in higher education and struggling in the professional world, asking: What does affirmative action for men look like? How does child education harm or empower boys, and is the academic world donning a feminine identity? Should we celebrate “toxic” masculinity?
Modernity calls for a new contract between men and women. What is the fate of the post-industrial man?
2022 Most Loved: Beyond the End of Liberalism with Andrew Willard Jones
Beatrice Institute Podcast
01/03/23 • 63 min
The liberal tradition frames the story of modernity as the gradual victory of freedom against state hegemony. Liberty, the consent of the people to be governed, and individual rights are the mainstay of western society. But are we really more free than before? What if freedom isn’t what we think?
The End of Innovation with Lee Vinsel
Beatrice Institute Podcast
10/12/22 • 49 min
Innovation is often seen as key to modern society. Whether in pursuit of economic growth, more convenience in daily life, or simply greater well-being, the pursuit of the new and better ideas and technology is always underway. But what if the key to human flourishing doesn’t lie in the search for the new, but rather in maintenance of what we already have? Could the endless pursuit of innovation as a goal in itself is actually causing us harm?
Lee Vinsel, co-author of The Innovation Delusion and founder of the Maintainers, explains the costs of this pursuit and the hold that innovation-speak has exacted on our society.From climate change to crumbling infrastructure, he and Grant discuss how maintenance rather than novelty might be the key to a more sustainable life, and how understanding and prioritizing the needs and well-being of human persons can lead to a more functional, beautiful world.
Oracles, Conspiracies, and the Case for Inefficiency—Co-host Roundtable
Beatrice Institute Podcast
07/12/22 • 73 min
Ryan, Grant, and Gretchen ask each other all their burning questions, probing more deeply into past interviews and breaking new territory. Together they ponder how Jesus might run a tech company, the desire to live forever and its impact on procreation, and what it means to be stewards of reality.
Can Tech Ethics Shape Our Future? with Brian Green
Beatrice Institute Podcast
06/14/23 • 48 min
As technology develops at an ever more rapid pace, it can seem that ethics struggles to keep up with it. While science and technology advance by building on discoveries of the past, virtue and moral knowledge must be cultivated afresh in every individual and each generation.
This is where Brian Green comes in. As director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, his areas of research are many, ranging from transhumanism and artificial intelligence, to catastrophic risk and the ethics of outer space. This diverse array of interests all pivot on the intersection between technology and humanity.
In this rerun episode, Brian and Gretchen dive into many areas of tech ethics that both impact our present lives and promise to shape our future. From immediate ethical dilemmas like self-driving car crashes and responsible tech development, to long-view issues like the establishment of extra-terrestrial colonies and the achievement of artificial general intelligence, they reflect on a large range of themes that can affect human lives for both good and ill. Listen in as they discuss old and forgotten tools for answering ethical questions, the Christian commission to work miracles, which human qualities can’t be programmed into machines, and more. Together they ask, should our predictions about technology and ethics be dire, or hopeful? What choices are we making now that will shape coming generations?
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The podcast is about Culture, Christianity, Literature, Theology, Society & Culture, History, Community, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Education, Arts and Academic.
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The first episode of Beatrice Institute Podcast was released on Apr 3, 2020.
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