The Importance of Being Earnest with Dr. Grace Hamman
Welcome to another episode of The Classical Mind, the podcast where we explore the great books of the Western tradition! In this episode, hosts Father Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson are thrilled to welcome a special guest, Dr. Grace Hamman. Dr. Hamman holds a PhD from Duke University, focuses…
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare with Heidi White
In this summer episode of The Classical Mind, hosts Dr. Junius Johnson and Father Wesley Walker welcome back three-time guest Heidi White, co-host of the Close Reads podcast and author of The Divided Soul. Together, the trio dives deep into William Shakespeare’s beloved masterpiece, A Midsummer Ni…
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings didn’t just launch a genre — it set the standard every fantasy writer since has been measured against. This month, Fr. Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson begin their journey through J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece with The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the trilogy…
Bonus Episode: The Forge of Friendship
Everyone knows The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia. Fewer people know the full story of the friendship that helped make both of them possible. In this special bonus episode, Dr. Junius Johnson sits down with Kirk Manton of Eastgate Creative to talk about The Forge of Friendship, a fi…
The Classical Mind Goes to the Movies: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
Warning: this episode discusses the film in full, spoilers included. If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch it first and come back.
Fr. Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson head to the theater for another Classical Mind Goes to the Movies episode, this time tackling Christopher Nolan’s big-screen ad…
Junius Johnson on Learning to See the World as Wild and Wonderful
How do fairy stories prepare children for a world of suffering, courage, beauty, and surprise? And what happens when adults lose the imagination to see rain, trees, music, and ordinary acts of making as anything more than useful resources? Dr. Junius Johnson joins Brian Williams to explore how fant…
Bonus Episode: The Fall of Arthur
Dr. Junius Johnson and Fr. Wesley Walker are joined by poet-priest-scholar Malcolm Guite for a deep dive into J.R.R. Tolkien’s unfinished alliterative poem, The Fall of Arthur — and make the case that it deserves to be read as seriously as anything else in Tolkien’s body of work.
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Episode 45: Putting Feet Where the Romans Walked: Teaching Through Italy
In this episode of the ClassicalU Podcast, Jesse Hake talks with Karen T. Moore and Grant Horner, PhD about their CU course: Teaching Through Italy: A Guide to In Situ Studies and the transformative power of encountering great books, art, history, and faith in the places that shaped them. Drawing o…
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
In this season finale of The Classical Mind, Father Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson bring their epic journey through J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy to a close with The Return of the King. Picking up from the alternating structural threads of the narrative, Junius and Wesley del…
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