A prophetic “wake-up call”
In this 2024 lecture honoring the bicentennial of George MacDonald’s birth, Malcolm Guite explores MacDonald’s power to awaken readers’ spirits and effect in them a change of consciousness. (59 minutes)
The rediscovery of meaning
Poet and theologian Malcolm Guite explains Owen Barfield’s idea of the development of consciousness over time, an evolution made evident through language that reveals an earlier, pre-modern way of seeing the world. (63 minutes)
Insights into reality itself
Malcolm Guite on the philosophical concerns underlying Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The story of the demotion of stories
Malcolm Guite on the Enlightenment’s rash dismissal of poetic knowledge
Beckoning to wisdom
Poet Malcolm Guite and composer J.A.C. Redford talk about their collaboration on a song cycle inspired by the O Antiphons of Advent. (22 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 144
FEATURED GUESTS:
Jonathan Mcintosh, Kevin Vost, Malcolm Guite, R. David Cox, Grant Brodrecht, and Peter Bouteneff
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: Malcolm Guite and J. A. C. Redford on the Advent O Antiphons
Poet and priest Malcolm Guite and compose J. A. C. Redford talk about how poetry and liturgy invite repetition, and also about how music interprets a text and alters how one inhabits poetry over time. (64 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 132
FEATURED GUESTS:
David I. Smith, Susan Felch, D. C. Schindler, Malcolm Guite, and J. A. C. Redford