Old Books with Grace
Listening to the past can help us to understand our present. Dr. Grace Hamman, medievalist and writer, guides listeners to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and learn to ask questions of our current age. Let‘s read old books together and discover truths about God and ourselves.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Enjoying Elizabeth Goudge with Julie Witmer
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Have you heard of the midcentury fiction writer, Elizabeth Goudge, author of classics like The Little White Horse or The Scent of Water? Julie Witmer, founder of the Elizabeth Goudge Book Club, comes on Old Books with Grace to talk about Goudge's life and writings, from her talent for writing children, to her love for her characters, to her mischaracterization as a romance writer!
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Modernism & T.S. Eliot with Tony Domestico
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Wednesday Jan 25, 2023
Grace welcomes Dr. Anthony Domestico, author of Poetry and Theology in the Modernist Period and chair of the literature department at Purchase SUNY, to Old Books with Grace today to chat about modernist poetry including my favorite twentieth-century poet, T.S. Eliot.
Warning: this episode is slightly longer than usual episodes because Grace lost track of time in her excitement about Eliot!
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Dayspring: Advent 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Today, Grace concludes the Advent series with some very, very old poetry. Poetry, in fact, that you’re already familiar with. You likely sing a form of it, or listen to it each year. Grace dives into Old English and Middle English translations of the Great O Antiphons, better known to us today as the foundation of the wonderful Advent hymn, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. Let’s look for the Dayspring, the Dawn, the Sun of Justice on this darkest day of the year.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Heaven Cannot Hold Him: Advent 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Welcome back to this year's Advent series on Old Books with Grace. This episode meditates on Christina Rossetti's A Christmas Carol, and William Langland's Piers Plowman. An interesting duo, separated by 500 years--and you'll find out why Grace pairs them in a contemplation on nature imagery and incarnational love.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Harke! Despair Away: Advent 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
In this second installment of the Advent series on poetry, Grace meditates on George Herbert's marvelous poem, "The Bag." Listen to Herbert command despair away as Christ becomes incarnate and carries our prayers in his very body.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Were we led all this way for birth or death?: Advent 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
In the first episode of the Advent 2022 series exploring Advent & Christmas poetry from the past, Dr. Grace Hamman meditates on T.S. Eliot's The Journey of the Magi and our status as pilgrims in the world.
Read The Journey of the Magi.
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Praying with Puritans with Robert Elmer
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Wednesday Nov 09, 2022
Grace welcomes Robert Elmer, the editor of Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans and Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church, the first two books in the Prayers of the Church series from Lexham Press. Grace, a medievalist slightly suspicious of Puritanism, learns about the beauty of these prayers from the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries and about Robert's own processes of finding and selecting these historical and powerful prayers.
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
On Beauty and Literature with Sarah Clarkson
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Beauty is just as significant to our spiritual and moral lives as truth and goodness. Sarah Clarkson has often found this beauty in literature. Grace welcomes Sarah, author of This Beautiful Truth: How God's Goodness Breaks Into Our Darkness, to discuss the intersections between story, beauty, and suffering. Along the way, some very recognizable names come up as sources of profound beauty in literature: J.R.R. Tolkien, L.M. Montgomery, George Eliot, and more...
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