For Your Consideration

Feb 05 2025 77 ep. 45 mins 3
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Listen to audio version of study center essays as well as lectures and talks.

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Beauty: The Hospitable Welcome of the Real

Feb 05 2025 68 mins  
In this episode of For Your Consideration, we are sharing a public lecture delivered by Dr. Esther Meek on Thursday, November 2, 2023. In her lecture, Dr. Meek addresses vital questions about beauty, thinking, knowledge, and our relationship to the world. Our modern age has us presuming that reality is material or reducible to it; inert and indifferent, ours to manipulate to the en

To See the World Whole

Feb 20 2024 27 mins  
In this episode of For Your Consideration, we are sharing a talk delivered by our director, Mike Sacasas, during our spring semester open house on January 23rd. The talk was titled “To See the World Whole.” We live in what the poet Richard Wilbur called a "scattering time." The most powerful forces at work within us and without appear to be disintegrating forces. These trends a

Faith, Reason, and the Good Life

Nov 27 2023 58 mins  
In this episode of For Your Consideration, we are delighted to bring you a lecture on the role of faith in our reasoning about the good life, which was delivered at the Center by Dr. Meghan Sullivan of the University of Notre Dame on October 5th. Dr. Sullivan is the Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy. She serves as Director of the NDIAS, a university-wide research ins

Beyond Boring Robots: Finding the Path to Flourishing in a Technological World

May 01 2023 57 mins  
On April 13th, the Christian Study Center was pleased to host a public lecture by Andy Crouch titled “Beyond Boring Robots: Find the Path to Flourishing in a Technological World.” The talk drew on and developed themes from Crouch’s most recent book, The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World. Every new advance in technology — this spring

The Promise and Peril of Generative A.I.

Mar 27 2023 45 mins  
With ChatGPT, and AI more generally, very much in the news, our director Michael Sacasas talked with Dr. Scott Hawley about recent trends in generative AI and its possible consequences across a variety of domains. Dr. Scott Hawley is Professor of Physics at Belmont University and Technical Fellow at Harmonai. He has worked extensively on machine learning in the field of audio engin

Attention, Love, and Freedom In the Work of Iris Murdoch

Mar 08 2023 53 mins  
In this episode, our director, Michael Sacasas, talks with Dr. Benjamin Lipscomb about the work of the 20th-century philosopher and novelist, Iris Murdoch. During the Fall 2022 semester, the Study Center hosted a reading group on The Sovereignty of Good, a collection of three lectures by Murdoch. In this conversation, Sacasas and Lipscomb walk through the major themes of that work

Rethinking Sex: A provocation

Nov 23 2022 39 mins  
Welcome to “For Your Consideration,” a podcast of the Christian Study Center. The podcast features audio from our events as well as occasional interviews with scholars and writers.This episode features a lecture delivered by Christine Emba at the Study Center on October 13th. Ms. Emba is a columnist for The Washington Post writing about ideas and society. Prior, she was the Hil

Reading Augustine’s City of God in a Time of Crises

Nov 05 2022 37 mins  
Welcome to “For Your Consideration,” a podcast of the Christian Study Center. The podcast features audio from our events as well as occasional interviews with scholars and writers.In this episode, you can listen to a talk by Dr. Michael Allen presented at the Study Center on September 19th. Dr. Allen is Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is pr

Spiritual Disciplines for the Digital Age

Oct 20 2022 61 mins  
Welcome to “For Your Consideration,” a podcast of the Christian Study Center. The podcast features audio from our events as well as occasional interviews with scholars and writers. For this episode, our director, Michael Sacasas, had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Stephanie Bennett. Dr. Bennett is Professor of Communication and Media Ecology at Palm Beach Atlantic University

“The Wisdom of Qoheleth: Ecclesiastes as a Meditation on Life in a Troubled World”

May 13 2022 77 mins  
In this episode of our podcast, we are pleased to bring you audio of a lecture delivered on Tuesday, April 12th by our director, Dr. Richard Horner. Here is how Dr. Horner described the talk:Perhaps no book in the Hebrew Bible has been more difficult to interpret and translate than the book of Ecclesiastes. To what reality does the famous opening phrase point? Exactly what question