In this conversation starter, Josh considers the connection between story and the Academy’s core commitments. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyo...

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr dives deep into Mozart's Requiem and how it drives imagination.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org.

In this conversation starter, Andrew invites all listeners to the 10th annual Lyceum Project and suggests a fundamental connection between our three foundational commitments—the eternal significance of shaping affections.----------------...

In this Council episode, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh discuss the nature of the imagination with help from Coleridge, Lee and Berry. Along the way they weigh the merits of nature and community in the creation of imaginative humans.-----...

In this conversation starter, Josh looks you square in the face and wonders aloud over the imaginative horizons the face of the Other can bring to us.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions ...

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr reflects on how being in and observing nature shapes his imagination.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org.

In this conversation starter, Andrew looks ahead (or behind) to the great precipitation, reads some Dante, and argues that imagination is of central importance. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us...

Nathan, Andy, Eric and Josh wish you the merriest, happiest, most blessed Advent and/or Christmas on this very special episode of the Council. There’s a heaping serving of meat and potatoes to keep the executive producers in the holiday spirit ...

In this conversation starter, Josh investigates the courage needed to hope for Christmas at the right time. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok....

In this conversation starter, Fr. Nathan takes us upstream to our children’s life of virtue.----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org.

In this conversation starter, Andrew turns practical, thinks about the virtue of humility, and reads some Jane Austen. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@th...

In this holiday conversation starter, Andy Black is back from the aether with some well-wishes for our tens of listeners and some thoughts about the virtuous tension between feasting and fasting.--------Dear tens of listeners, we ...

Andrew leaves Nathan and Josh unattended and Eric does his best to channel his inner Andrew to keep things focused long enough to discuss the nature of virtue, exemplars and discerning your ends from your means. --------We wa...

In this conversation starter, Josh reflects on the relationship between virtues and ends. ----------------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org.

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr explains priest collar protocol and then challenges us on what it really means to be virtuous.Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org...

In this conversation starter, Andrew finally musters the courage to defend his wardrobe and thinks aloud about what virtue is and what virtue requires.-------Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comm...

In this united episode, our intrepid foursome discusses themes connecting our previous installments focusing on putting memory into practice. We continue to marvel at the Room of Requirement and (to our executive producers’ chagrin) hear from a...

In this Conversation Starter, Josh wonders aloud: If you had no time and no outside resources, could you tell a coherent story about things that matters?----------We want to hear from you! Email us your questions and cr...

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr wonders aloud at some of the necessary nutrients for an active memory.________________We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org

In this conversation starter, Andrew explains this month's more practical turn, reflects on our general compulsion to record, and suggests the great potential of thoughtful revisiting.We'd love to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theac...

In this inaugural episode of the Academy podcast reboot, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh, reignite our listeners with that oh so familiar accessible pretension. Our intrepid quartet ties together the past several weeks’ individual podcasts into a...

In this Conversation Starter, Josh invites you to consider how you interact with your memories.

In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr continues the conversation on memory by exploring contemplation, enjoyment, and memorial.

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew welcomes listeners to a new season, explains what's happening to the Podcast this year, and invites you to have a conversation on the ways you regularly access the distant past.

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects on the sounds of an ongoing school year and asks how the ways we keep time might affect each of us more than we usually stop to consider.