The Academy Podcast

In today's conversation starter, Andrew introduces our inaugural guest-contribution from Midtown's own Mr. Elijah Weaver.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

On this Council episode the guys discuss what it might look like to lean into the life The Academy is offering. We also talk about galloping children, so, why wouldn't you listen? _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

In this week’s conversation starter, Josh wonders aloud about whether you’re good at being on the receiving end of neighboring.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr challenges us to reach out and engage with the people around us in meaningful ways. _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this starter, Andrew revisits a moment from last week's council episode, attempting to begin a conversation about the various and essential things that make us human. What are they? His answer may surprise you.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh kick off the new season with the standard five star mediocrity. Andrew reminds us of human and neighborly permanent things, the executive producers confess their calendar sins and Eric looks to keep Nathan and Josh on task.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

This week’s conversation starter has Josh wondering aloud about guest lists and belonging at the table. Pull up a seat, grab another for a stranger and bon appetite.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Once upon a time, Nathan tells listeners a story of xenia and how hospitality is a lens through which we can see the human. Join Headmaster Carr as he invites listeners to walk into sights and sounds and smells with one another. _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this year's inaugural conversation starter, Andrew attempts to normalize the impulse to bemoan the fact that, though it still seems to be summer, we're all back at school things again. It all depends, you see, on what we mean by "school" and "things" and "again." _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this, our final episode of the season, The Council remembers the season with clips, practices the virtue of gratitude with the first ever Number One Listener Prize and baptizes imaginations with accessibly pretentious shenanigans.   Many thanks to you, our tens of listeners. We look forward to seeing you next season.  _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHO...

In this conversation starter, Andrew anticipates graduation, asks 17 questions, and offers a final benediction. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of The Council, Jennifer, Catie, and Holly takeover the podcast. They discuss the Foundational Commitments of The Academy along with the usual banter. After all, Eric is still producing. _________ We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

In this special conversation starter, Andrew speaks with this year's Lyceum speaker, Michael Ward, C.S. Lewis scholar. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh talks to Beth Thompson, class of 2022, about her Capstone.  ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr considers the necessary place of Capstone in answering what are ultimately missional questions. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this Conversation Starter, Andrew anticipates festivity, thinks about Capstone, and argues that the end of education is not the power to control but is instead the freedom to love. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this episode of The Council, Andy, Eric and Josh puzzle over Nathan’s absence and attempt to hold things together. Along the way they introduce a new sponsor and discuss the foundational commitments of the Academy.  We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh considers the connection between story and the Academy’s core commitments.  ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr dives deep into Mozart's Requiem and how it drives imagination. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew invites all listeners to the 10th annual Lyceum Project and suggests a fundamental connection between our three foundational commitments—the eternal significance of shaping affections. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this Council episode, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh discuss the nature of the imagination with help from Coleridge, Lee and Berry. Along the way they weigh the merits of nature and community in the creation of imaginative humans. -------- We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Josh looks you square in the face and wonders aloud over the imaginative horizons the face of the Other can bring to us. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr reflects on how being in and observing nature shapes his imagination. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

In this conversation starter, Andrew looks ahead (or behind) to the great precipitation, reads some Dante, and argues that imagination is of central importance.  ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Nathan, Andy, Eric and Josh wish you the merriest, happiest, most blessed Advent and/or Christmas on this very special episode of the Council. There’s a heaping serving of meat and potatoes to keep the executive producers in the holiday spirit and enough shenanigans to keep the other tens of listeners in the same.  -------- We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES...