Here are the 18 most recent Archive Features, Bonus Features, and Conversations. Members can download and play these programs from the Library screen on their app.

Ideas made incarnate

Ideas made incarnate

In this lecture, Karen Swallow Prior examines the power of great literature to shape lives, nourish imaginations, and develop a vision of the good life. (43 minutes)
Ethical issues in neurobiological interventions

Ethical issues in neurobiological interventions

William Hurlbut explores current neurobiological advancements and the ethics and dangers of biotechnology interventions that go beyond therapy. (62 minutes)
How social media truncates relationships

How social media truncates relationships

In this lecture, Felicia Wu Song explains how social media industrializes and monetizes our relationships, forming us in modes of relationships and identity that are detrimental to ourselves and to society. (41 minutes)
From culture war to culture care

From culture war to culture care

In this 2016 lecture, artist Makoto Fujimura asks what would it look like for Christians to be stewards of beauty and human flourishing in all areas of life and culture. (48 minutes)
Insights into O'Connor's development as a writer

Insights into O’Connor’s development as a writer

FROM VOL. 160
Jessica Hooten Wilson discusses her experience studying and organizing Flannery O’Connor’s unfinished third novel, Why Do the Heathen Rage? (27 minutes)
Gratitude and stewardship as political postures

Gratitude and stewardship as political postures

FROM VOL. 118
Mark Mitchell explores the consequences of four concepts that are sadly missing from most political debates today: creatureliness, gratitude, human scale, and place. (18 minutes)
An impoverished anthropology

An impoverished anthropology

FROM VOL. 146
Mark Mitchell asks whether there is anything that truly binds Americans together beyond their commitment to self-creation. (34 minutes)
Making contact with reality

Making contact with reality

FROM VOL. 139
Esther Lightcap Meek discusses the realism of philosopher and chemist Michael Polanyi. (23 minutes)
Knowing the world through the body

Knowing the world through the body

FROM VOL. 76
Professor Martin X. Moleski explains why Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) left his career in science to become a philosopher. (16 minutes)
Steward of knowledge vs. autonomous knower

Steward of knowledge vs. autonomous knower

FROM VOL. 66
Esther Lightcap Meek challenges the modernist view of knowledge, which prefers the figure of the autonomous knower to the figure of a steward of knowledge acquired in part from others. (15 minutes)
Wonder, being, skepticism, and reason

Wonder, being, skepticism, and reason

FROM VOL. 135
Matthew Levering talks about the long and rich tradition of reasoning about God. (23 minutes)
Economics and personhood

Economics and personhood

FROM VOL. 147
Mary Hirschfeld argues that modern economics makes some fundamental assumptions about personhood, material goods, and God that prevent the development of a truly human understanding of economic life. (20 minutes)
Metaphysics and sub-creation

Metaphysics and sub-creation

FROM VOL. 144
Jonathan McIntosh claims that scholarship has tended to ignore the depth of St. Thomas Aquinas’s influence on J. R. R. Tolkien’s work. (28 minutes)
Etiquette and ethics

Etiquette and ethics

In this essay, Judith Martin (a.k.a. Miss Manners) argues that etiquette is “civilization’s first necessity” and an indispensable societal virtue. (21 minutes)
An embedded life

An embedded life

Following a move from one state to another, Gilbert Meilaender explores the tension between being simultaneously a sojourner and a body located in place and time. (30 minutes)
How advertising detaches us from the world

How advertising detaches us from the world

FROM VOL. 13
Historian and cultural critic Jackson Lears discusses the power of advertising to reinforce and shape cultural attitudes about material goods. (9 minutes)
On the Degeneration of Attentiveness

On the Degeneration of Attentiveness

Critic Nicholas Carr talks about how technology-driven trends affect our cultural and personal lives. (56 minutes)
Defined by what we buy

Defined by what we buy

FROM VOL. 48
Gary Cross argues that Americans are uniquely susceptible to the temptation to define ourselves by what we buy. (10 minutes)