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"We make idols of our concepts but wisdom is born of wonder." Host Katie Marquette takes listeners on a sound-rich, audio adventure for your ears, exploring beauty, aesthetics, theology, literature, and art. www.bornofwonder.com
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Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
On this episode, we ask a big question: "what is art and why does it matter?" Can we define what makes art "good" or "bad" - and is it important that we do? Discussion covers philosopher Roger Scruton, theologians Paul Tillich and Martin Buber, and St. John Paul II's "Letter to Artists."
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Paul Tillich: "Dynamics of Faith"
Martin Buber: "I and Thou"
"Letter to Artists" JPII: http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/letters/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists.html
Roger Scruton - "Art Today" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQ4ruPsJ_c&feature=emb_logo
E.E. Cummings - "i thank you God for most this amazing"
Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Recommendation: The Oldest Welsh Lullaby - Dinogad's Smock
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
On this episode, Katie recommends three excellent Lily James movies to inspire you and keep you feeling optimistic! (It's a serious skill to pull of such charming naivety so kudos to you, Lily James). Good movies - like all good art - keep us grounded in the good, true, and beautiful.
Visit: www.bornofwonder.com
Movies:
"The Dig" - available on Netflix
"Yesterday" - available on Hulu and Amazon Prime
"The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society" - available on Netflix
Recommendation:
"Girl from the North Country" - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Happy Mardi Gras! On this episode we explore the importance of leisure and authentic celebration. We are taken through an authentic Scottish Burns Day Supper as we discover how to partake in celebration with serious JOY!
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Music: Blue Dot Sessions
Free Music Archive:
"Providence Reel" - Aislann
"The Road to Lisdoonvarna" - Pinniped
"The Burning of Piper's Hut" - Pinniped
"Si Beag Mor" - Slainte
FreeSound: Bapipe Reel
The Highwayman by Loreena McKennitt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGFo0xn4JeY
The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
On this episode we explore the rise of the anti-hero and how to recover our sense of heroic (and why it matters). We'll touch on anti-heroes like Mad Men's Don Draper and explore in depth the great literary heroine, Jo March. Finally, a note on why sainthood doesn't mean perfection and why St. Joseph is the inspiration we need in 2021.
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Music Credit: Blue Dot Sessions
"Why We All Want to be Jo March" - https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/why-we-all-want-to-be-jo-march
Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter, With a Father's Heart - http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20201208_patris-corde.html
"Audrey Hepburn's Favorite Song" by Paul Rogers - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/08/audrey-hepburns-favorite-song
"The Quiet Wisdom of Audrey Hepburn" - https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/the-quiet-wisdom-of-audrey-hepburn
"Audrey" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06u6wwwKlno
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Happy Groundhog Day! On this episode we explore the deep philosophical and theological implications of the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. Will we have an early spring or a long winter? Does Time still have meaning if it never changes? Are we currently living in a Groundhog Day loop during Covid-19 quarantines and lockdowns? Ultimately, we learn, Time is given meaning in how well we are able to love others.
Recommendation: Ryan Joseph Burns 'A Man's a Man for A' That' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeAjhXWJvI
Visit: www.bornofwonder.com
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
On this episode we explore our complicated relationship with the natural world. What does the violence of nature teach us about our human capacity for justice, empathy, of love? How do we find rest in animals, nature, and myth? Inspired by Wendell Berry's poem, "The Peace of Wild Things," Helen Macdonald's "H is for Hawk," and the poetry of Ted Hughes and Mary Oliver.
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BBC Slow Radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b09cy8yl
Sounds courtesy of FreeSound
Music courtesy of Blue Dot Sessions
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is “about a man who lives in a House in which an Ocean is imprisoned”. On this episode we use this book as the inspiration for a wide-reaching meditation on mazes, labyrinths, minotaurs, the prison etchings of Giovanni Piranesi, and the theology of Simone Weil.
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Music credit: Blue Dot Sessions
"The Sound of the Carceri": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrQvrqwwRE
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
On this first episode of Born of Wonder, we explore the concept of wonder, awe, gratitude, and story. We discover the importance of reclaiming a sense of wonder in the world, especially inspired by C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe."
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Music credit:
BlueDot Sessions
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
"we make idols of our concepts, but wisdom is born of wonder." Introducing an innovative, sound-rich, audio delight for your ears... A Podcast that explores art, literature, theology, beauty, goodness, aesthetics, and wisdom. Learn more about Born of Wonder, coming Fall 2020.