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Forming the imagination in a fragmented age | Shannon Valenzuela
Medievalist, educator, screenwriter, and media producer Shannon Valenzuela joins us from the University of Dallas to explore classical education as a living tradition—one that forms the whole person and continues to generate new stories, new art, and new cultural work. Drawing on her experience in K–12 classrooms, higher education, and film and television, Valenzuela reflects on formation, virtue, and the enduring power of imagination. In this episode, we discuss: 📖 Why the renewal of c...
10 Dec 2025
The poet's moral journey | Jane Clark Scharl
Poet, playwright, and critic Jane Scharl joins us to explore her debut poetry collection Ponds, the moral labor of finding a poetic voice, and the enduring power of language in an age increasingly dominated by abstraction. In a wide-ranging conversation, she reflects on the poet’s vocation, the dangers of reducing words to mere “tokens,” and why great poetry always returns us to reality. In this episode, we discuss: 📖 How a spontaneous dramatic monologue in college revealed Scharl’s poetic v...
3 Dec 2025
A Catholic stronghold in higher ed | Thomas Varacalli and Christine Boor (Belmont Abbey College)
Dr. Thomas Varacalli, Dean of the Honors College, and Dr. Christine Boor, Chair of Classical Liberal Education, join us from Belmont Abbey College to discuss the revival of Catholic liberal education, the distinctives of the Abbey’s Honors College, and the formative power of friendship, contemplation, and intellectual tradition. Together they explore what it means to build a genuinely Christian college in an age of fragmentation. In this episode, we discuss: 📖 The founding vision of the Belm...
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