5 Questions for Interesting People

5 Questions For Interesting People is an occasional interview project of the UnTaking substack. Both are free and I’d love for you to join us.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these interviews. I feel badly about this. And I realize that talking to these interesting people makes me feel better about the world, so I’d like to do more of it.

This time, I’ve proud to present to you the conversation I had with Adrian Conway, who kindly sat down for the 5 questions. His responses were thrilling to me. Take 25 minutes to listen and you’ll get insight about Faith and Art, finding meaning in mystical experiences, and some great advice about fiction (writing and reading). Adrian is a gem and I very much urge you to follow his work at the links below.

Links:

Adrian’s Fiction

The Pelican Crossing

The UnTaking review of The Pelican Crossing

Scriptourer

Joining the show today is Jeremy Hunt. Jeremy is a social media professional and musician. As Jeremy answers the Five Questions, we cover a range of topics, including:

* Growing up as a Christian with secular interests

* Having compassion for those at the margins

* The pain of absence

* Living with ambiguity

* Loving art with flaws

I hope you find Jeremy’s ideas as moving and inspirational as I did.

Find Jeremy’s band Qoheleth here — It’s really cool!

This interview project is a continuation of a concern I outline in my article “Being Bored Doesn’t Make You Interesting,” which you can read here. There you can read the 5 questions and my reasons for asking them.

Please let me know (just reply to this email) if you or someone you know would like to talk about the 5 questions.

Why is it so important that people start taking art seriously? What does it mean to take art seriously?

In this episode, William Collenjoins us to talk about art and living in “The Ruins.” William’s Substack, Ruins, provides a lot of insight about the art all around us and how it shapes who we are and become.

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Listen to the interview above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch the video right here:

This interview project is a continuation of a concern I outline in my article “Being Bored Doesn’t Make You Interesting,” which you can read here. There you can read the 5 questions and my reasons for asking them.

Please let me know (just reply to this email) if you or someone you know would like to talk about the 5 questions.

On this episode, Aspiring Good Neighbor, Tim Rhodes discusses how his work as a writer and filmmaker springs from a compassion for the people that society tends to leave out.

In answering the 5 questions, Tim talks about the kinds of people he’s drawn to and why he chooses to do his work. Some of the stories he tells will utterly inspire you.

You can find a sample of Tim’s work at Whistling Blue, where some of Tim’s stories are told.

If you’d like to watch the interview, you can do that here:

This interview project is a continuation of a concern I outline in my article “Being Bored Doesn’t Make You Interesting,” which you can read here. There you can read the 5 questions and my reasons for asking them.

Please let me know (just reply to this email) if you or someone you know would like to talk about the 5 questions.

In the very first episode of 5 Questions for Interesting People, I’m joined by Adrian Neibauer, a public school teacher from Colorado. In answering the five questions I have for him, Adrian talks about place, family, and teaching as a way of making his “drop in the bucket” a meaningful one.

You can check out (and I highly recommend you do) Adrian’s absolutely gorgeous website at:

https://adrian-neibauer.com/

There you can learn more about him and contact him. He also has a Substack of his own in the works atAdrian’s Newsletter and can also be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MrNeibauer

This interview project is a continuation of a concern I outline in my article “Being Bored Doesn’t Make You Interesting,” which you can read here. There you can read the 5 questions and my reasons for asking them.

Please let me know (just reply to this email) if you or someone you know would like to talk about the 5 questions.

You can listen to the interview above or watch the video below.