Imagination Redeemed

May 15 2024 51 ep. 40 mins 85
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Helping you reconnect faith and imagination, hosted by Brian Brown and Heidi White. A podcast of the Anselm Society. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/imaginationredeemed/support

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Living the Life of the World to Come

May 15 2024 48 mins  
Brian joins Michael Minkoff of Renew the Arts for a conversation about how imagination and art empower us to live like people of heaven. They also talk about Taylor Swift. Yes, you read that correctly. Learn more about Renew the Arts at https://renewthearts.org/. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/imaginationredeemed/support

How to Live Like a Narnian

Mar 13 2024 50 mins  
Listen to Brian Brown's talk from the 2024 Square Halo "Return to Narnia" conference. Maybe you've absorbed the fake C.S. Lewis quote that you ARE a soul and you HAVE a body. Or maybe you grew up in an environment that only valued time if it was spent getting people into the elevator going up. If so, you probably struggle to live in the world as you ought, because

Why Everyone is Creative

Aug 15 2023 62 mins  
A friendly podcast interviews Brian about our new book, "Why We Create." More about Upstream. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/imaginationredeemed/support

S3 E22 - The Art of Naming (with Marilyn McEntyre)

Dec 28 2022 24 mins  
Why did God tell Adam to name the animals? When you think about it, it’s an odd time to quit creating. He left it to humankind to look for the significance of the things He made, to derive meaning from it, and to join with Him to put the finishing touches on things for which He obviously had a clear vision. Understanding the dignity and responsibility inherent in the role of nami

S3 E21 - A Story Full of Time (with Glenn Paauw)

Dec 07 2022 57 mins  
The Bible is filled with time because God’s revelation is always historical—a story of moments both old and new. God reveals who He is and what He’s doing within our ongoing story, our ongoing time. In this episode, Glenn Paauw shows us how the movement of the biblical narrative is always toward God entering into our time more and more deeply. It is a story of restoration, in

S3 E20 - The Art of Christian Memory (with Heidi White)

Nov 23 2022 67 mins  
These days we tend to take a dim view of the past. We struggle to overcome things (personal or corporate) we wish we could go back and undo. But Christianity teaches a different way of viewing the past: one in which “remember” is one of the most frequent commands in Scripture, in which gratitude is a discipline rather than a feeling, and in which nothing is outside the reach of

S3 E19 - The Art of Subcreation (with Matthew Clark)

Nov 09 2022 56 mins  
Tolkien talked about “subcreation” - this thing we do when we take something God has made and create with it. When we try to make creation about ourselves—our pride, our desire for affirmation, and so on—we only make things harder. But when we understand it properly, our subcreation is a middle act between God’s first creation and His second—and the culture we build tog

S3 E18 - How Gardens Teach Us to Cultivate (with Christina Brown and Amy Lee)

Sep 14 2022 57 mins  
At last year's Imagination Redeemed conference, Christina Brown and Amy Lee shared about the art of gardening and God's story. They covered their own journeys into gardening, how their experiences cultivating God's creation changed their relationships with Him and their families, and much more. In this episode, we revisit their talk on gardening and creative cultivation as part of

S3 E17 - The Craft of Cultivation (with Gracy Olmstead)

Sep 07 2022 23 mins  
Cultivation is a lost art for most of us. It requires paying attention—understanding each person and thing in its proper way. It requires love—viewing everything as the Creator does; not just as it is but as it can grow to be. And it requires agency—viewing ourselves not as a scourge upon nature but as people designed to be a blessing to it. In this episode, Brooke McIntire r

S3 E16 - Why We Remember the Past Differently (with Heidi White)

Aug 31 2022 41 mins  
In preparation for Heidi White's keynote session on the Art of Christian Memory (which she'll give at our upcoming Imagination Redeemed conference), this episode revisits a talk she gave at our 2020 artists' retreat. In this lecture, Heidi explores the two different attitudes we can have toward the past, and how each needs the other in order to healthily live in the present. This b