The Academy of Classical Christian Studies

The Academy Podcast

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The official podcast of The Academy of Classical Christian Studies, located in Oklahoma City, OK.

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The Council Episode 08 | That's a Wrap 19.05.2026 52:15

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...

Conversation Starter 24 | Why End with Ceremony? with Andrew Black 12.05.2026 3:59

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

The Council Episode 07 | Tumultuous Takeover: Women Edition 05.05.2026 43:33

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

Conversation Starter 23 | A Special Conversation with C.S. Lewis Scholar Michael Ward 28.04.2026 6:54

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

Conversation Starter 22 | Talking Capstone with Alumnus(?) Beth Thompson, with Josh Spears 21.04.2026 5:26

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

Conversation Starter 21 | Mission and Capstone Themes with Fr. Carr 14.04.2026 5:03

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

Conversation Starter 20 | The End of Rhetoric with Andrew Black 07.04.2026 5:22

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

The Council Episode 06 | Nathan Disappears in a Polyphonic Wormhole 31.03.2026 43:33

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

Conversation Starter 19 | Story, Memory, Virtue and Imagination, with Josh Spears 24.03.2026 5:12

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

Conversation Starter 18 | Requiem for a Polyphonic Wormhole, with Fr. Carr 10.03.2026 5:09

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

Conversation Starter 17 | Attention and Eternity with Andrew Black 03.03.2026 5:28

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

The Council Episode 05 | I Can Only Imagine; Or, 24.02.2026 51:20

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

Conversation Starter 16 | On Becoming What You Face with Josh Spears 10.02.2026 4:52

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

Conversation Starter 15 | Finding Peace Outside For The Inside with Fr. Carr 03.02.2026 5:18

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

Conversation Starter 14 | Imagining the Real 29.01.2026 5:49

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

The Council Episode 04 | A Very Special Xmas Break Episode 23.12.2025 1:06:50

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...

Conversation Starter 13 | Courageously and Hopefully Timing Christmas with Josh Spears 16.12.2025 5:14

In this conversation starter, Josh investigates the courage needed to hope for Christmas at the right time. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter Episode 12 | Self-Sacrifice: Virtue in True Action with Fr. Carr 09.12.2025 4:54

In this conversation starter, Fr. Nathan takes us upstream to our children’s life of virtue. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter Episode 11 | Till This Moment I Never Knew Myself with Andrew Black 02.12.2025 5:27

In this conversation starter, Andrew turns practical, thinks about the virtue of humility, and reads some Jane Austen. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter 10 | Can You See the Feast? 29.11.2025 5:08

In this holiday conversation starter, Andy Black is back from the aether with some well-wishes for our tens of listeners and some thoughts about the virtuous tension between feasting and fasting. -------- Dear tens of listeners, we want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

The Council Episode 03 | Meat, Potatoes and Virtues 18.11.2025 48:07

Andrew leaves Nathan and Josh unattended and Eric does his best to channel his inner Andrew to keep things focused long enough to discuss the nature of virtue, exemplars and discerning your ends from your means. -------- We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter 09 | To What End? with Josh Spears 10.11.2025 4:55

In this conversation starter, Josh reflects on the relationship between virtues and ends. ---------------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter 08 | Virtue Is When It Gets Real, with Fr. Carr 04.11.2025 5:20

In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr explains priest collar protocol and then challenges us on what it really means to be virtuous. Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

Conversation Starter 07 | Virtue's Foundations with Andrew Black 28.10.2025 5:43

In this conversation starter, Andrew finally musters the courage to defend his wardrobe and thinks aloud about what virtue is and what virtue requires. ------- Dear listener, we want to hear from you! Send us your questions and comments to podcast@theacademyok.org. Send us Fan Mail

The Council Episode 02 | On Being Memorably Practical 21.10.2025 46:29

In this united episode, our intrepid foursome discusses themes connecting our previous installments focusing on putting memory into practice. We continue to marvel at the Room of Requirement and (to our executive producers’ chagrin) hear from an old friend of the show. Plus, sponsors! -------- We want to hear from you! Email us at podcast@theacademyok.org. SHOW NOTES: Send us Fan Mail