Episode 133 - Beauty as Oxygen, Part 2

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Today we are continuing the conversation with special guest Wesley Vander Lugt and Steve, as they continue to discuss beauty as oxygen and Kinshop Plot, a mission that is all about the deep belonging, resonant relationships, and entangled identities that bring us fully alive.

Thanks for joining us in today’s conversation!

Today’s Guest - Wesley Vander Lugt

Wes is a pastor, theologian, writer, educator, nonprofit leader, and arts advocate with a passion for beauty, slowness, cultivation, kinship, and theodramatics.

​Wes currently works as the Acting Director of the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte. He is also the Co-Founder of Kinship Plot, a community of learning and practice who imagine and embody resonant relationships of every kind.

Wes holds a PhD in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts from the University of St Andrews. His publications include Living Theodrama: Reimagining Theological Ethics, and he is currently working on a book called Beauty is Oxygen: How Buffered, Battered, and Bored Souls Can Breathe Again.

• Learn more about Wes on his website - www.WesleyVanderLugt.com

Resources Mentioned in Podcast

• Kinship Plot - founded by Wes and his wife Stephanie
  

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• Music Break at 16:05: Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Larghetto - from the Album Klassiska Favoriter

• Music Break at 33:43: Create In Me- written by Terry Talbot.

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Episode 132 - Beauty as Oxygen, Part 1

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Oxygen is essential to our survival. Did you ever think that Beauty might also be essential to our survival? Special guest Wesley Vander Lugt and Steve dig deep into how Beauty is not just about decoration in our lives or as an illustration of truth, but something deep in us that longs to not only enjoy beauty, but to be drawn into it and participate in it.

Thanks for joining us in today’s conversation.

Today’s Guest - Wesley Vander Lugt

Wes is a pastor, theologian, writer, educator, nonprofit leader, and arts advocate with a passion for beauty, slowness, cultivation, kinship, and theodramatics.

​Wes currently works as the Acting Director of the Leighton Ford Center for Theology, the Arts, and Gospel Witness and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte. He is also the Co-Founder of Kinship Plot, a community of learning and practice who imagine and embody resonant relationships of every kind.

Wes holds a PhD in Theology, Imagination, and the Arts from the University of St Andrews. His publications include Living Theodrama: Reimagining Theological Ethics, and he is currently working on a book called Beauty is Oxygen: How Buffered, Battered, and Bored Souls Can Breathe Again.

• Learn more about Wes on his website - www.WesleyVanderLugt.com

Resources Mentioned in Podcast

• Kinship Plot - founded by Wes and his wife Stephanie
  

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• Music Break at 20:35: Peace - Unknown

• Music Break at 47:32: Miserere mei - composed by Gregorio Allegri. Performed by New College Choir, Oxford.

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Episode 125- Beauty and the Soul with Tom Morris, Part 2

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“Beauty. Some forms of beauty calm us, others excite us, but all tend to grab our attention and intrigue us enough to have an affect. Beauty of course comes in many forms beyond the human face and form. From the landscape, seascape, and skyscape to the wonders of music, art, math, and science, we’re surrounded by reminders of the deeper things, the higher things, the truest things in life and beyond. Let’s make sure we steep ourselves in a recognition and enjoyment of the many and varied beauties around us, small and large. Then, we'll be likelier to act in more beautiful ways, in all things.” —Tom Morris

The first part of our podcast is the rest of the discussion on Beauty with Steve and Tom Morris in this inspiring and rich conversation on Beauty.

The second half of the podcast is a reading and discussion of John O’Donahue’s poem A New Beginning. Joe and Steve have a heartfelt talk about it’s meaning for all of us.

Thanks for joining the Conversation today!

About Our Guest

Tom Morris has become one of the most active public philosophers in the world due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges of the present.

A native of Durham, North Carolina and a Distinguished Alumnus of Durham Academy, Tom was a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, which has honored him, along with Michael Jordan, as a recipient of their "Distinguished Young Alumnus Award." He holds two masters degrees as well as a joint Ph.D. in both Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale University, as well as other, honorary doctorates in recognition of his public work of bringing practical philosophy back into the cultural mix. Tom served for fifteen years as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he quickly became a campus legend, in many years having an eighth of the entire student body in his classes. Recent projects involve novels, nonfiction books, and a script for an immersive theatrical experience featuring AI and the robotics of five hundred years in the future. He is a firm believer that ideas rock the world. Tom is now Chairman of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, NC.

• Tom’s Website

• If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris

• The Everyday Patriot by Tom Morris

Resources Mentioned in Podcast

• Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue

• Reading & Discussion of “For a New Beginning” By John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us

• Previous episodes with Tom Morris:

  • The Closing of the American Mind, Part 1

  • The Closing of the American Mind, Part 2

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• Music Break at 17:30: A New Beginning by Peder B. Hellend

• Music Break at 31:00: The King's Singers - When All Falls Silent (Geert D'hollander)
  
  

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Episode 124- Beauty and the Soul with Tom Morris, Part 1

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________________________________________________________

SHOW NOTES

“Beauty. Some forms of beauty calm us, others excite us, but all tend to grab our attention and intrigue us enough to have an affect. Beauty of course comes in many forms beyond the human face and form. From the landscape, seascape, and skyscape to the wonders of music, art, math, and science, we’re surrounded by reminders of the deeper things, the higher things, the truest things in life and beyond. Let’s make sure we steep ourselves in a recognition and enjoyment of the many and varied beauties around us, small and large. Then, we'll be likelier to act in more beautiful ways, in all things.” —Tom Morris

Join Steve and Tom Morris in this inspiring and rich conversation on Beauty.

About Our Guest

Tom Morris has become one of the most active public philosophers in the world due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges of the present.

A native of Durham, North Carolina and a Distinguished Alumnus of Durham Academy, Tom was a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, which has honored him, along with Michael Jordan, as a recipient of their "Distinguished Young Alumnus Award." He holds two masters degrees as well as a joint Ph.D. in both Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale University, as well as other, honorary doctorates in recognition of his public work of bringing practical philosophy back into the cultural mix. Tom served for fifteen years as a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he quickly became a campus legend, in many years having an eighth of the entire student body in his classes. Recent projects involve novels, nonfiction books, and a script for an immersive theatrical experience featuring AI and the robotics of five hundred years in the future. He is a firm believer that ideas rock the world. Tom is now Chairman of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, NC.

• Tom’s Website

• If Aristotle Ran General Motors by Tom Morris

• The Everyday Patriot by Tom Morris

Resources Mentioned in Podcast

• Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light by Joan Chittister

• Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O’Donohue

• Previous episodes with Tom Morris:

  • The Closing of the American Mind, Part 1

  • The Closing of the American Mind, Part 2

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

• Music Break at 14:49: Children’s Choir - Composed by PinkZebra.

• Music Break at 39:53: Beauty – Snow Music Studio
  
  

FIND US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM

Facebook

• Soul Care Conversations Group Page

• Potter’s Inn Main FB Page

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CONTACT US

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INTERESTED IN MORE SOUL CARE RESOURCES?

Check out our recommended reading, books on spiritual growth, and our soul care blog. Want to experience soul care in person? Learn more about our soul care intensives and retreats. 

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