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In this installment, you can listen to the seventh session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this w...

This is the fifth session of Mike Sacasas’s director’s class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The topic of this class is  Tools for Conviviality . If you’d like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianst...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. A number of unpleasant realities have been exposed by the troubles we have endured throughout the past year. Few of these have been as difficul...

In this installment, you can listen to the sixth session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

This is the fourth session of Mike Sacasas’s director’s class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The topic of this class is Tools for Conviviality . If you’d like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianst...

In this installment, you can listen to the fifth session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

In this installment, you can listen to the fourth session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wi...

This is the third session of Mike Sacasas’s director’s class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The topic of this class is Illich’s best known book, Deschooling Society . If you’d like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo...

This semester, our associate director, Michael Sacasas, is delivering three lectures on the thought of the 20th-century Christian scholar and social critic, Ivan Illich. The first lecture, “Ivan Illich, Our Present Crisis, and the Possibilities of a More Convivial Society,” was delivered as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday, February 10th. The audio of that lecture is included here. IntroductionBrief sk...

In this installment, you can listen to the third session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wit...

This is the second session of Mike Sacasas’s director’s class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The essays discussed in the session include “To Hell With Good Intentions.” If you’d like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. Also, it is not too late to register for Mike’s evening talk via Zoom tonight at 8PM (EST) on Illich. It is t...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Of late, I’ve had occasion to turn again to the work of Jacques Ellul, the 20th century French scholar and lay theologian, regarded by some as...

In this installment, you can listen to the second session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this wi...

In this first session of Mike Sacasas director’s class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. In this session Mike provides a brief sketch of Illich’s life as a frame of reference for subsequent classes tracing the development of his thought. If you’d like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. You can expect audio of the class to arrive...

In this installment, you can listen to the first session of Dr. Horner’s director’s class for this semester, “Reading the Gospels: The Road to the Cross.” You can look for the audio versions of this class to land in your inbox on Thursdays. If you’d like to join Dr. Horner’s class live via Zoom either Wednesday mornings at 10:40 or Wednesday afternoon at 3:00, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@chr...

In this installment, you can listen to week ten of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” which concludes the semester. This class covers Peter’s confession of faith, the nature of Jesus’s identity, what it means to follow Christ, and the Transfiguration. Dr. Horner will be teaching the second half of the class during the spring semester. This i...

In this installment, you can listen to the tenth and final session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class opened with a discussion of what we require of place and what place requires of us. It concluded with reflections on the difference between inhabiting place in the mode of a tourist, on the one hand, or in the mode...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Jane Jacobs opened her mid-twentieth century classic,  The Death and Life of Great American Cities , with a discussion of the peculiar nature o...

In this installment, you can listen to week nine of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” which continues to explore the ministry and teaching of Jesus as presented by the gospels with a special focus on the theme of bread. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

In this installment, you can listen to the ninth session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class discussed virtual spaces, religious varieties of mediated presence, and more. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.sub...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. In the weeks leading up to our national election I found myself thinking more than ever about the question, “What frames what?”—not at some abs...

In this installment, you can listen to week eight of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” which explores the ministry and teaching of Jesus as presented by the gospel according to John. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

In this installment, you can listen to the eight session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class talked about place and memory as well as the relationship between place and community. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudyc...

In this installment, you can listen to week seven of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” which continues to explore the ministry and teaching of Jesus as presented by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack....

In this installment, you can listen to the seventh session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class talked about how we the experience of being grounded in a place, how devices mediate that experience. We also began our discussion of place and memory, which will carry over into next week This is a public episode. If you...