Speaking With Joy

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Memory shapes our sense of who we are, where we come from, and where we're going. It's fundamental, and it's flawed. What are we to make of it?

How can we incorporate rhythms of prayer into our every day lives, dedicating our work, play, and rest to God?

This episode explores Bach fugues, improvisational jazz, poetry, and a kid's cartoon to suggest the idea that true freedom necessitates restraint. 

How do we live well in a complicated world? This episode seeks the words of a poet from the past and a musician for the present to explore this timeless question. This episode features an interview with Veery Huleatt, editor of a new volume of poetry by Jane Tyson Clement.

To be a human is to have a body, and to have a body is to touch and be touched. This episode explores our desire to touch creation, each other, and God. 

Speaking with Joy welcomes a new season with this special episode featuring the talks from the Speaking with Joy live events and music from Two Benedictions. Enjoy!

Speaking with Joy is celebrating its second anniversary! Many thanks to everyone who has joined in on the journey.

There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.

Joy chats with Glenn Packiam about how our stories because sacred in the hands of Jesus.

"The chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle."

Is the world getting better and better? This week we discuss the myth of progress and the eternal revolution. Join in!

Boze Herrington joins Joy to discuss the beautiful paradoxes of Christianity as it has tumbled through history.

How is it possible that we both feel at home in the world and homesick in it?

Can fairy tales help us understand the world better than modern philosophy? 

From her new flat in St Andres, surrounded by boxes, Joy rambles about chapter three of Orthodoxy and the unraveling of the modern mind. Listen in!

What do sin, madness, and rationalism have to do with each other? Tune into this week's episode about Chapter Two of Chesterton's book Orthodoxy to find out!

Welcome to Reading with Joy, a summer book club on G.K. Chesterton's excellent book of essays Orthodoxy. Join me this week for our first episode, diving into Chapter One "In Defence of Everything Else."

After a short (and unexpected!) break, Speaking with Joy is back. Listen to this podcast to hear about my summer book club, live Speaking with Joy events near you, and more. I hope you'll spend the summer with me!

The modern world is both overstimulating and excessively boring. In this episode, featuring Boredom expert Dr. Rebekah Lamb, we explore the social, literary, and spiritual dimensions of boredom. I promise, you will not find this episode a bore.

Is the modern world disenchanted? Today we will explore this question with the night sky as our conversation partner. My hunch is that the cosmos is not any less wondrous, mysterious, or enchanted than it was in the twelfth century. The world is not disenchanted, we've only grown blind to its wonder.