Composed: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, author and poet Christine Perrin interviews women (and some men) to discover how they have composed a life of meaningful patterns and routines that give life to themselves and their families.
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Conversations That Help You Live and Lead Wisely
Explore real stories of families and schools pursuing wisdom, virtue, and meaningful education.
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Dive deeper into the ideas driving the renewal of classical education
Forged and Composed: Timeless Ways of Living
A co-hosted podcast featuring Forged host Brian Williams and Composed host Christine Perrin.
Forged: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, Dr. Brian Williams of the Templeton Honors College interviews men (and some women) to learn how they seek to forge meaningful lives of at work, home, and in the broader culture.
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What Do We Lose When Work Becomes Only a Paycheck? with Jeffrey Dill
What happens when work becomes little more than a paycheck, food becomes something we expect to appear in a grocery store, and home becomes mostly a place of consumption?
The Life An Education Makes with Elspeth Currie
What if the books you read at sixteen, the habits you formed in a classroom, or the things you learned simply because they were beautiful were never meant to “pay off” only in a career?
The Cost of Ambition and a Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf
What happens when your sense of worth depends on being better than the people around you? And what changes when you stop asking how you rank and start asking what kind of life is actually worth living?
What the Seasons Can Teach Us About Work, Rest, and Raising Children with Kerry Hasler-Brooks
What if a flourishing family life depends less on doing more and more on recovering rhythms of work, rest, attention, and belonging?
Encountering the Real: Mathematics, Education, and AI with Jake Tawney
What if mathematics is not merely a tool for solving problems, but a way of encountering reality?
Living Like a Human with Elizabeth Lynn
What helps a child learn, a family flourish, or a community grow strong?
Junius Johnson on Learning to See the World as Wild and Wonderful
How do fairy stories prepare children for a world of suffering, courage, beauty, and surprise?
Beauty Is Not a Luxury with Nadezhda Gribkova
What we attend to quietly shapes the people we become.
Hope Is a Practice: Dr. Lydia Dugdale on The Lost Art of Dying Well
How can we prepare for death without becoming consumed by it? And what might the lost art of dying teach us about living with greater wisdom, agency, and hope?
How Small Habits Fill a Life with Nadya Williams
What if the life you long for is formed one teaspoon at a time?
Elliot Ackerman on Fatherhood, Friendship, and the Habits That Shape Men
How does a father help his son become a good man?
Jesse Hake on the Living Patterns of Reading, Naming, and Belonging
What if the books we read aloud, the walks we take, and the names we learn for the world around us are not small extras, but central ways of forming a life?