Opening Question

It's the beginning of the academic year! And that means our incoming students are busy reading The Iliad and The Odyssey. In the first episode this season, Ellie, Fred, and Paul talk epics - what are they, why are they the way they are, and can we still write one today? 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Jack Truly

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

As we wrap up our semester, it's a great time to discuss our end-of-semester oral exam, affectionately named "Don Rags." Join Ellie, Fred, and Paul as we talk through what an oral exam is, how it works, and why we do it. Thanks for listening to Season 4!  

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Paul, Ellie, and Fred are joined by another Torrey faculty member, Dr. Greg Peters. Dr. Peters is a professor of monastic studies, and in this episode we discuss what it's like to be a specialist in a generalist program. How do our faculty integrate their academic specialties into a program that spans English, Philosophy, History, Aesthetics, and Theology? 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Join Fred, Paul, and Ellie in our discussion on the timelessness of truth. We've talked in the past about "chronological snobbery" - the impression that whatever comes out today must inherently be better than what has come before - but what about those things that endure always? Is truth timeless, or does it develop over time? 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Join Ellie, Fred, and Paul as we finish our discussion on the Great Books tradition. We wrap up the convo we started last week on the roots of Torrey, so be sure to tune it to that episode if you haven't yet! 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Fred, Ellie, and Paul talk history in this two-part episode. We often describe the Torrey Honors College as a "Great Books Program", but what is the Great Books movement and how did it emerge? There was lots to talk about, so join us again for Part II! 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Torrey faculty member Dr. Adam Johnson joins Paul, Fred, and Ellie to talk about Torrey Parks, Traherne, and being outside. Learn more about one of our summer Off-Campus trips, Torrey Parks (led by Dr. Johnson), and listen in on what sounds almost like a real opening question as we discuss all things nature and being outdoors. 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Welcome back for Season 4! In our opening episode, Ellie, Fred, and Paul discuss what the Socratic method is in general. We talk a lot about how we do what we do, but we wanted to take a step back to discuss what it is that we do, and a little bit more of why we do it. 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

The life of reading and the mind seems like something you might get to do in college, but then never again. After all, who isn’t tired after working all day?! In our final episode of season 3, Ellie, Fred, and Paul get into a lil argument about what it means to continue with a life of the mind, even after you graduate college. 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey

Ah, a question we get all the time from our incoming students: but surely I don’t need to read Antigone again, or The Odyssey, or Dante’s Inferno again - I read those already in high school! Paul, Ellie, and Fred discuss the nature of reading as re-reading in this penultimate episode of season 3. Turns out, there are some books that reading once just barely scratches the surface of what there is to learn there. 

Hosted by: Ellie Martin, Dr. Paul Spears, and Dr. Fred Sanders
Executive Producer: Ellie Martin
Editor and Producer: Timothy House

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Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. We bring together students with different backgrounds from all over the world in pursuit of a common goal.

At Torrey Honors, students read deeply from some of the best books ever written. They gather with close friends to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.

Learn more at https://www.biola.edu/torrey