Speaking with Joy

This episode explores Bach fugues, improvisational jazz, poetry, and a kid's cartoon to suggest the idea that true freedom necessitates restraint.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

How do we live well in a complicated world? This episode seeks the words of a poet from the past and a musician for the present to explore this timeless question. This episode features an interview with Veery Huleatt, editor of a new volume of poetry by Jane Tyson Clement. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

To be a human is to have a body, and to have a body is to touch and be touched. This episode explores our desire to touch creation, each other, and God.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

Speaking with Joy welcomes a new season with this special episode featuring the talks from the Speaking with Joy live events and music from Two Benedictions. Enjoy! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

Speaking with Joy is celebrating its second anniversary! Many thanks to everyone who has joined in on the journey. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

Joy chats with Glenn Packiam about how our stories because sacred in the hands of Jesus. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

"The chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle." This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

Is the world getting better and better? This week we discuss the myth of progress and the eternal revolution. Join in! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe

Boze Herrington joins Joy to discuss the beautiful paradoxes of Christianity as it has tumbled through history. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joyclarkson.substack.com/subscribe