The joy and mystery of poetry

The joy and mystery of poetry

FROM VOL. 98
Jeanne Murray Walker discusses how she helps students approach and appreciate poetry as the mysteriously meaningful literature it is, rather than as a linguistic cage containing static meaning to be abstracted from the words of the poem. (23 minutes)
The peril of positivism

The peril of positivism

Owen Barfield on a popular denial of the possibility of meaning
Albert Borgmann, R.I.P.

Albert Borgmann, R.I.P.

Albert Borgmann argues that, despite its promise to the contrary, technology fails to provide meaning, significance, and coherence to our lives. (47 minutes)
Roger Scruton, R.I.P.

Roger Scruton, R.I.P.

Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12, 2020. In this interview from 2015, Scruton discusses the ways in which the sacred or religious sensibility is prefigured in aesthetic experiences and in our relationships to the world. (20 minutes)
The essential meaning at the heart of reality

The essential meaning at the heart of reality

Paul Tyson discusses how the modern preoccupation with doing has distracted us from the meaning of being. To meet the cultural challenges of our moment believers must recovery the ontological richness of the premodern Christian heritage. (21 minutes)