Faber Institute Podcast

Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ (1881-1955) was a Frenchman, Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist, and above all a mystic. At the center of his mysticism was a vision of how God is intensely alive and motivated with majestic purpose to bring all created things (not just human beings) into conscious unity. His stunningly beautiful vision of the unstoppable glory of God was given him durin...

Our Guests for Series 13 are two mystics, each of whom we will invite twice to The Night School: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Edith Stein. They were contemporaries in the 20th century, who in their professional lives were scholars of the highest order and who in their inner lives sacrificed much for the sake of God and for what God gave each of them to give to the world. One was a man and one wa...

The Faber Sessions #10 Part 1 on The Magician's Nephew from the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, presented by Rick Ganz. “We must now go back a bit and explain what the whole scene had looked like from Uncle Andrew’s point of view. It had not made at all the same impression on him as on the Cabby and the children. For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also...

Series 1 of The Faber Sessions in April-May 2020 was an exploration of The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, written by him in the decade after World War II, the seven novels published, one per year, from 1950 to 1956. In that Spring of 2020, we read all seven novels - a novel per week - as the pandemic (impacting us in March 2020) had week by week locked us into our homes. We offered Series 1 t...

The final Night School of Series 12 will send us to the New Testament and into the presence of the profound and serene and confident author of the First Letter of St. John. He wrote this most personal and tender of letters near the end of the first century and to a people whose challenges he knew well. “Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.” - 1 John 3:18

A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spiritual capacities as...

A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spiritual capacities as...

A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spiritual capacities as...

A Mother's Retreat is an annual retreat of the Faber Institute for mothers of all ages, from pregnant women and new moms with babies, to empty nesters and grandmothers. Tara Ludwig, Spiritual Director at Faber Institute and mother of three little ones, is the Retreat Director, guiding us through a reverent exploration of the power of “Mother”. Together, we consider how our spiritual capacities as...

The Faber Sessions #9 Part 4 on Gerard Manley Hopkins, presented by Rick Ganz. To conclude The Faber Sessions, Series 9, we will experience together the poetry of Fr. Hopkins, SJ, a member of the Jesuit Order, a Catholic priest, who at the time of his early death from Typhoid, considered his life a failure.  As was the case with George Herbert (March 2023) and then with Emily Dickinson (April 2023...

Jane Jacobs was fierce, brilliant, and eloquent in a tart and disarming way, about CITIES - about how “great cities” actually do work (she claimed no particular insight into towns) … or do not work.  Jane Jacobs quipped: “We expect too much of new buildings and too little of ourselves.”

The Faber Sessions #9 Part 3 on Emily Dickinson, presented by Rick Ganz. There is little argument among literary critics that Emily Dickinson, along with Walt Whitman, are two of the greatest of a distinctly American style or voice of poetry. The Poetry Foundation says right off that: “Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her prov...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...

Paul Pastor ( www.pauljpastor.com ) talks specifically about Eliot's struggles with the human relationship with time, as seen by the growth evident between his writing of The Wasteland and Four Quartets. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” - T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”, the last of the Fo...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...

The Faber Sessions #9 Part 2 on George Herbert, presented by Rick Ganz. George Herbert (1593-1633) was considered one of the brightest men in Anglican England of the early 17th century, and was a contemporary of William Shakespeare. He was in the largest part of his short life the principal “Orator” of Cambridge University, where he was called “the jewel” of the University. But during the last thr...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. Such a Retreat is helped when there is a Theme (a guiding set of thoughts) in relation to which the Talks are composed and shared. The Theme is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: discernm...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. Such a Retreat is helped when there is a Theme (a guiding set of thoughts) in relation to which the Talks are composed and shared. The Theme is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: discernm...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. Such a Retreat is helped when there is a Theme (a guiding set of thoughts) in relation to which the Talks are composed and shared. The Theme is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: discernm...

A Pilgrim’s Retreat is an act of sustained prayer by each of you - the Retreatant. It is spiritual exercise, because there is real effort involved, letting God really have you, your full attention, for the day. Such a Retreat is helped when there is a Theme (a guiding set of thoughts) in relation to which the Talks are composed and shared. The Theme is one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit: discernm...

From  www.history.com/topics/black-history/frederick-douglass : Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and h...

The Lenten Meditations are an annual habit of the Faber Institute, offered in support of expanding and deepening your spiritual practice during the season of Lent. This year's Lenten Meditations, offered on each of the six Sundays of Lent, have been thoughtfully composed and presented by Tara Ludwig of the Institute. The Meditations will go back in history to 1st century Palestine to encounter hop...