Latest Episodes
Trailer: “Faith and Imagination,” a New Podcast from the BYU Humanities Center
Hello listeners, we wanted to let you all know of a new podcast series from the Center coming this Monday, January 25th 2021, called...
On Academics, Aesthetics, and Advocacy, with guest Cherene Sherrard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Intersections between areas of scholarly inquiry and areas of creative expression are both fraught with complexity and ripe with opportunity. Where and how these...
“The Art of Holy Attention,” with guest David Marno, University of California, Berkeley
Poetry represents perhaps the most elegant use of language, the most delicate expression of the wide range of moods and feelings that make us...
On Religious Universities and Church Education, with guest John Tanner, BYU and former president of BYU-Hawaii
What is the role of religious universities like BYU? How should they resemble or differ from secular universities, and has their role evolved in...
Contemplative Studies, and What it Fails to Contemplate, with guest Jacob Sherman, California Institute of Integral Studies
Contemplative studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field in universities. It explores the intersection of what we learn with how we learn, asserting that minds...
Why We Need Needless Things: On the Power of Literary Romance – Guest Scott Black, University of Utah
What is literature? For much of western history, the word simply designated “educated writing” or “discourse,” a meaning it still retains. However, since the...