Arlington VA Public Library is reading “Moby-Dick” this summer, and we’re going to have a seriously good time while we do it. Each week on the podcast, librarians Jennie, Megan, Pete and special guests will discuss the reading, drop pop culture references, and ask or answer questions that come up during the Sunday discussion.
Tags: bookclub, georgeeliot, Literature, melville, mobydick, tolstoy
An exploration in classic literature and western philosophy from a Christian perspective. Our target audience is anybody interested in living an examined life. We hope to bring beauty, reason and faith to conversations that have endured for all time. New episodes monthly.
Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
Tags: apologetics, beauty, Books, christianity, classic, classic literature, Education, God, Great Books, Jesus, Literature, mark stanley, nietzsche, Philosophy, tolstoy, well read christian
When Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace was published in 1869, his genius was immediately recognized by people all over the world. In the later part of Leo Tolstoy’s life, however, he began to share his deepest thoughts about Christianity in his writing. His definition of Christianity was not the same as the priests and bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church where there was so much pomp and pageantry. Tolstoy could care less for all that ceremony. He was a radical follower of Jesus Christ’s teachings, particularly as found in the Sermon on the Mount (including Christ’s controversial admonitions to “resist not evil,” to “love your enemies” and to “turn the other cheek.”) This book you are about to hear shares Tolstoy’s thoughtful commentary on where TRUE Christianity lies and why and how the Church has gotten Christ’s teaching so wrong. Special thanks to JewelBeat.com (http://www.jewelbeat.com) for the theme song, “Russia, Russia, My Love.” The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy is in the public domain. The coverart is by Russian portrait artist Ivan Kramskoy. Produced and narrated by Vic Zarley.
Categories: Religion & Spirituality
Tags: antiwar, Christ, Evil, Jesus, leo, mount, nonresistance, not, on, resist, sermon, The, tolstoy
Spoken word literature featuring counter-culture literary stalwarts – from the Russians to the Beats – read by host Dave Thorvald Olson – along with original freeverse poetry, fiction and expository writing, with occasional rambling discourse and conversation, often with eclectic field music, always recorded spontaneously at some splendid locale.
Categories: Arts, Society & Culture
Tags: Brautigan, dave, daveo, Daveolson, discourse, freeverse, guitar, jazz, kerouac, literary, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Rousseau, Salinger, snyder, spoken, spokenword, spontiety, Thoreau, thorvald, tolstoy, uncle, uncleweed, weed, word