New Life in Christ

How do we have the vision and the faithful fortitude of the saints? They are like trees, “planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither” (Psalm 1:3). In the wake of Easter, we consider Wendell Berry’s exhortation to “practice resurrection” — small acts of hope in the midst of the “already, but not yet” — through paying attention to the life of trees, and the picture they are to us as the life of the saints.

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On A Porch Sipping Dandelion Wine

Annie Nardone recommends
a tale from Ray Bradbury in
her Pages, Pints, and Pours.

The Singing Tree

The wood a violin is made of
determines its voice, says
Christina Brown, pointing to
this truth: matter matters.

An Old Fashioned Call to Slow Down from Wendell Berry

In this Pages, Pints, and Pours, Annie Nardone orders up an collection of elder wisdom worth sipping slowly.

Emerging from the Darkness into Light

Look to the lowly (and loud)
cicada for encouragement.
Haven't we all felt buried?
Yet a new life was coming.

Planted, Not Rooted

Claire Keiser: a meditation on the relationship between the sublime and the ordinary.

Hemmed In

No matter how small or great our bounded space may be in any given season, there is room to do what He has given us to do.

Imagination Redeemed Podcast (May Episode)

In every episode, we retell one of the great stories, then follow its illumination to delve deeper into conversation about how to enter into the life of the Christian imagination.

planting Trees

In 1910, A man named Elzèard Bouffier saw the land dying for lack of trees, so he had resolved to remedy the situation. Join Sarah, Amy, Matthew, and our guest Yongwon Lee, as we wonder at this man and consider if planting trees shows us what it means to “Practice Resurrection.”

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gRACY oLMSTEAD’S “The Craft of Cultivation”

Cultivation is a lost art for most of us. It requires paying attention, love, and agency. In this Imagination Redeemed episode, Brooke McIntire reads Gracy Olmstead's essay exploring how a posture of cultivation equips us to create as God made us to create.

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Christina Brown’s “A Place for a Tree”

Art Guild Director and Co-Founder of the Anselm Society, Christian Brown has a beautiful column on Cultivating called The Cultivating Gardener. This piece explores how planting trees requires the courage to make lasting decisions, and thus reveals deeper meanings behind our gardening choices.

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Jessica Hooten WilsoN’S “Sainthood in Literature”

Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University (’23). This lecture is from the Imagination Redeemed conference at Glen Eyrie, September 24-25 2021.

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How to See Like a Saint

A five-part class by Brian Brown. Whenever we come across stories of the saints, it seems like they see something differently than we do. Something that enables them to not just keep it together, not just behave themselves, but transform everything around them. What is it? And can we learn to see it too?

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