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Love your podcast and I’m a big fan of cartoons and comics and Bill Watterson. Just wanted to let you know he recently put out a new book called: The Mysteries. It is way different from his earlier work and it is a collaborative work with another artist John Kascht. They work on this book for several years. Oh and it is very cool 😄

I am desperately trying to find printed music for this to be played in my brass quintet. Can you offer me some ideas, help, guidance, thanks, Randy

Love this talk! Especially because Ann from Green Gables was also a book that deeply moved me and influenced me. Same with Lord of the rings ❤and Narnia

Words that rhyme with “avocado”? “All bravado”

Lovely words and ideas of faith and inspiration. Thank you 🙏🏽

Enjoying this stimulating talk- thank you 🙏🏽

Well, Dante's Comedy is not completely fiction. Dante was a gifted seer and a lot of this is, simply, his reporting of his visions. So, he was kind of a spiritual reporter.

Absolutely fantastic. It's a shame the early church gets so little attention by the faithful.

I think romance is a great example of how limitations make things better. I sometimes get in the mood to read Christian romance, and it often makes me want to write guidelines for those authors to make them better. I'd be super happy if I never again heard phrases like "ragged breathing" and "melted against him" as well as any noticing of muscles. The more authors evoke emotion based on character (as opposed to physical attraction), the more depth and dignity their work seems to have. I also wish romance authors would come up with some tricks to come out of any romantic scene with an impetus towards living with love (not necessarily romantic) in real life. I do wish some group of romance authors would get together and work something out to keep things within the bounds of good taste. Regarding the way the media limited itself during and after WWII, it makes me think of some current trends such as giving trigger warnings. I think that during and after COVID-19, a lot of people struggled emotionally. Limits can protect people who are facing or have faced terrible things. They can make us feel safe, and sometimes we need that refuge. I kind of wish post-WWII society had taken the road Tolkien did, seeing the goodness and hope that are present even in dark times. But it's hard to blame them if they wanted peace and quiet and prosperity for a while.

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I am speechless at the beauty of this lecture. A blessing from Anthony Esolen!

I love the poems of George Herbert!

Wonderful!

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Beautiful

Fascinating conversation. A question I would have about AI is this. If I took a known piece of art like a Norman Rockwell and messed with it in photoshop changed some things a bit then sold it as mine I think I would get into trouble. Are some people using AI in this way? Basically is it stealing?

Out of my original siblings I'm the secand oldest so I would be the High Queen but my parents recently adopted so now id be the song madain wich I'm cool with because then he has the harder responsibility lol

'Promosm' 🤷

I wish Lanier had her own podcast. She is always a joy to listen to.

What this man stated is absolutely true. I just finished writing a rhyming, narrative novel that took seven years. (Might also be a musical) Every page etched and molded my heart and soul As it brought me closer to God who lovingly inspired it. I'm praying now that it will become a work that touches lives as as deeply as it has mine. Thanks for this confirming video! It truly blessed me!

I've loved C.S. Lewis for a long time, watching the BBC version of the Narnia books as a kid and reading them for myself and also then being blown away by his more theological books as well and the space trilogy. It's great to hear other Lewis aficionados chat, he has a well deserved place in the hearts of Christians I wish he was read as much as he is gushed over!

✔️ *promosm*

Beautiful

New series: Who could save ________(fill in the blank with a fictional character)?

Wonderful lecture. May God bless our time with a reclamation of sanctified imagination.

The Catherine Project looks like an option for retirement. I was thinking of moving to a state that allows seniors to matriculate tuition free, but the Catherine Project wouldn't require relocating. Always nice to have to choose between good, attractive options.

I've been studying philosophy like this in Portland, Oregon, with Michael McGettingen for several years, reading slowly first through Kant and for the last three years through Hegel. Michael is passionate about philosophy, is a great encourager, and an effective leader of small group discussions. He does all his work pro bono. I understand he's taking one of your courses this term. I learned about this yesterday. I cannot recommend him more highly, if you get a chance to take him on as a tutor.

The place of the lion by Charles Williams is one of my favorite books. Williams is a bit quirky but there are some hidden gems in his writing.

Enjoyed this so much! Thank you 🧡

This mentally ill weirdo said that Top Gun: Maverick illustrated America's "exaltation of white super-men"........that is what you take away from the latest Top Gun? The country was 80% white when the first Top Gun was filmed, and they brought back the main star....who is still white. And the US is 65% white today still. You would assume that most heroes in movies during the 80s and even today would be white, given our population demographics---------the review is a true sign of a demented, deranged leftwing mind.

Very interesting Q&A.

16:05 "How you can be great presbiterian novelist." I would rather by very bad novelist and good catholic, that good novelist and presbiterian.

Winston Churchill began painting at age 40 and continued for the rest of his life.

For Christians, romantic love and sexuality are sins: you have to burn in hell for that! This dogma has made hell on earth for more people than all the devils in the world could wish for.

For Christians, romantic love and sexuality are sins: you have to burn in hell for that! This dogma has made hell on earth for more people than all the devils in the world could wish for.

Art should be a production out of love not out of narcisism.

The Tale of Two Cities film mentioned here is the 1935 one directed by Jack Conway. This video is great btw and has enlightened me no end on a Christmas Carol and Tale of Two Cities. Thank you so much

What an incredibly interesting conversation… Speaking of favorite times of the year: I know exactly what he’s referring to. Mine happens to be autumn and late autumn and early winter. Something that just captivates you about it and you almost start to try too hard to hold onto it… Which just seems to spoil it somehow. But, the beauty still lingers there which I think like CS Lewis said that it’s something that actually points beyond itself namely to God

This needs to be shared everywhere, this message could not be more timely.

Continued: Case in point, Waugh's use of the "triple tau" to decode the dedication to The Sonnets. He's about 110 years too early. The symbol just wasn't yet devised in 1609. 6-2-4 has nothing to do with the date of De Vere's death (June 24, 1604). Back then, the calendar year started on March 25, but it was a moot point, since nobody numbered months until the 20th Century. Printers used two Vs to make a W because most printing type was made in foundries on the Continent, where most languages didn't have a W. Nearly all English printing before about 1650 shows this same practice. I have seen books as late as 1700 still doing it. We have no idea when the last Sonnet was written.

An Elizabethan grammar school was conducted in Latin and focused on literature, rhetoric, and religion. Richard Field, a Stratford contemporary of Shakespeare, scored an apprenticeship with a London printer who specialized in Latin, French, Spanish, and Italian texts. Clearly one could learn foreign languages in Stratford. Field later went on to print all of Shakespeare's works that he wrote specifically for publication, as well as many of his primary sources. Contrary to most claims, Shakespeare's vocabulary was not especially large. He was just about average for the poets of his day. We have just two letters from Ben Jonson, who lived 20 years longer than Shakespeare. Both are to government officials. Private correspondence between non-aristocrats has almost completely vanished. Nobody thought to go looking for Shakespeare's literary relics until he had been dead for a century, his family line had died out, and houses and theaters had all been demolished. Shakespeare abbreviated his name differently, but the spelling is consistent. When he was granted a coat of arms, when he was deposed in a court case, when he went to the clerk of Queen Elizabeth to get paid for performances, when he was made a King's Man by James, when he appeared in cast lists for Ben Jonson plays, his name was always spelled "Shakespeare" (or in one case, "Shake-speare"). Spelling at the time was phonetic. Nobody cared how you spelled anything so long as it was intelligible. William Davenant wrote a poem in memory of Shakespeare within a couple of years of his death. William Basse wrote a poem "On Mr. Wm. Shakespeare he died in April 1616" which circulated widely in manuscript. It basically said Shakespeare should have been buried in Westminster next to Spenser and Beaumont. It had gotten around enough that by 1621 (the year typesetting began on the First Folio) Ben Jonson was able to respond to it by saying it doesn't matter where his body is buried because his works survive. By about 1618 Shakespeare had a monument placed over his grave which compared him to Virgil. If that isn't a great eulogy, than what it? Walt Whitman left school at age 11. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) ended schooling at age 12. Strange that two great writers couldn't imagine another dropout being a great writer. Ralph's Waldo Emerson did not doubt that Shakespeare was from Stratford, but he did help Delia Bacon, the OG of Anti-Stratfordianism, travel to England to research. There is no evidence that Shakespeare's younger daughter, Judith, could read or write. There's also no evidence that she couldn't. She notarized a legal document with her initial J. Shakespeare's older daughter could both read and write. She left a couple of elegant signatures, was reported as knowing the contents of a book she sold, though it was in Latin, was described as "Witty above her sex... there's something of Shakespeare in that" on her tombstone, and was married to a Puritan physician. Puritans thought being able to read the Bible for one's self an essential skill. In a time when maybe only one woman in ten was literate, Shakespeare did fairly well. Ben Jonson is thought to have gotten a grammar school education at the Westminster School, though again no records survive. After he left there, his bricklayer stepfather tried to force him into an apprenticeship, but instead he ran away to join the military. He did not attend a university and despite being one of the most erudite men of the age, was mostly self-taught. A search of the surviving wills of the era reveals that hardly anyone mentions books or manuscripts. In Honnigman's Playhouse Wills 1558-1642, we find that only three people mention books or manuscripts, and none of them were theater poets. Wills were not meant to itemize every item one owns. They were meant for specific bequests. Shakespeare does not have many courtroom scenes in his plays. In fact he has just one, in The Merchant of Venice, and it's RIDDLED with errors. It's a farce. It has a Duke (Venice was a republic) sitting in judgment (which Duke's don't do anywhere, when there is one) on a case where the issue is whether the plaintiff can cut out the defendant's heart. The case turns on the fact that he can't do that without taking any blood, which the contact doesn't allow. In fact, Common Law permitted the destruction or taking of anything essential to the removal of property which was forfeit. Shakespeare also mentions the law in Athens allowing a father to put a disobedient daughter to death. Sorry. No such law. Shakespeare clearly read Edmund Plowden's Commentaries, a popular law book which Jonson also read. Shakespeare's father was a justice of the peace, so he probably absorbed a thing or two about the law as a boy. Shakespeare does drop some legal jargon here and there, but Anti-Stratfordians badly overstate the case. He was no more likely than his fellow poets to use legalisms. His knowledge of other areas is likewise overstated. His knowledge of royal courts (he was literally a groom of the chamber extraordinary to King James), falconry (same nomenclature as hawking which was popular with the middle classes), seamanship (his theater was right next to one of the busiest ports on the world), and medicine (his son-in-law was a physician) are all overstated and what there is is perfectly reasonable. He probably spoke French, as he lived with a French family in London, but it only shows up three times in two plays, and always as a joke. In Henry V the French Princess wants to learn English from her maid, and discovers that English words all sound like French profanities. Later Henry butchers his French as he tries to woo her. In Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a comic character, says "Dieu vous garde, monsieur." Viola (disguised as the boy Cesario) responds "Et vous aussi; votre serviteur." That's it for French all of the other French characters just have stupid accents. There's no evidence that Bacon was involved with any secret society. During his lifetime, the Masons were a trade guild, who limited membership to those in the building trades. Their "secrets" involved math used in building. The Masons in Scotland began accepting non-tradesmen as members about a decade after Bacon died. The English Masons did so some time after that. The notion that Bacon was inspired by Athena in a dream comes from Dr. Orville Ward Owen, a 19th Century crackpot who built a machine to help him decipher codes left by Bacon in the works of Shakespeare. Predictably, he found what he was looking for. Actual cryptoanalysts William and Elizebeth Friedman examined his work and concluded Dr. Owen must have been prescribing himself too many happy pills. Literally nothing that comes from the Baconian Cipher camp can be treated as evidence, or even sane. Shakespeare probably didn't invent new words. He DID use existing words in a different way, such as using nouns as verbs and vice-versa. He didn't coin the term "pickle", but he was the first to use it in the sense of being in a tight space. For words he is said to have coined, we can only say for sure that he was the first one to put them into print. As the body of digitized books and manuscripts grows, we are finding earlier examples of many of these words. But he WAS the first to use a "yo mama" joke. Shakespeare was a member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men. The Lord Chamberlain was Henry Carey, the Queen's cousin and closest advisor. After Elizabeth died, his company became the King's Men. It didn't matter who wrote the plays. They were all censored by the Master of Revels (who also worked for the Lord Chamberlain), and would have been considered official propaganda by anyone with a brain. In any case, Bacon didn't acquire government office until James came to the throne, two-thirds of the way though Shakespeare's career. He wasn't even SIR Francis until 1603. Nobody would have considered a play by the Honorable Gentleman from Ipswitch to be government propaganda. The "suspicious" line on the engraving in the First Folio is the collar to which his ruff is attached. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Grauer had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpasse All, that vvas euer vvrit in brasse. But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke. The deversified version: This pic is Shakespeare. The artist worked hard to make it look life-like. Too bad he can't draw Shakespeare's mind as well as he did his face. If he could, it would be the best pic ever. Instead, you'll just have to read Shakespeare's works. There's nothing suspicious about it at all. Love's Labors Lost...oh, yeah! That's the play where Shakespeare has the Duc du Mayenne, who was the head of the Catholic League, as one of the Protestant King of Navarre's bosom buddies. They were mortal enemies in real life. How does a guy like Bacon make an idiot mistake like that? Shakespeare's grave stone has been cut down from its original full size, probably in the early 19th Century. A sketch from 1737 shows it to be full size. There has been no excavation, but they did use ground-penetrating radar to have a look under the stone. This revealed no sign of nails, so Shakespeare was buried in a simple shroud. This was the preferred method of Puritans, who dominated Stratford in 1616. GPR is not capable of differentiating remains from the soil they are buried in. Edward De Vere was buried in a churchyard in Hackney in 1604. His wife died eight years later and asked in her will to be buried in Hackney next to him. She also left money for a "suitable monument" which was never built. Waugh's "decoding" which "proves" that De Vere is buried under the Shakespeare monument in Westminster is about a bonkers as anything you can imagine.

I have always loved that poem by George Herbert. Thank you for reciting it.

Loved listening to this while working in the garden. The story retelling was very well done...it definitely made me laugh and weep. Looking forward to the next one.

I am so excited to learn about this. Thanks for sharing!

Nice one no one knows how he is giving time☹

Thank you for sharing this. Your telling of St. Brigid's cloke has wormed it's way into my heart and has help foster faith and hope only as a good story is able to

Does this mean we can have a role playing night at the next Imagination Redeemed conference?