Outlander Soul

This is going to be a busy year in Outlander! We've got the new TV series starting 16 Feb 2020, Herself is *hopefully* finishing the newest book, and we've got a new podcast season in the works for you! We wanted to update you on a few developments and do a bit of fan-girling over the new TV season, which looks SO GOOD!! We look forward to being with you again very soon!

We love our listeners! We’re back for the second part of our season finale where Jayme and Terry respond to further listener feedback! This time, we delve into further conversation about sexual violence, mercy, vengeance, justice, and touch a bit on the theme of colonization in Outlander. Plus, we field a few suggestions given by listeners for future episodes, which we’ll be considering for Season 4!

One of our dear listeners, Marilyn Pukkila, shared this quote with us via email with which we end this episode. It comes from Sheldon Kopp’s "If You See the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!':

“We must learn to love in the absence of illusion.

We must try to live a just life in an unjust world.

We must be willing to go on caring even when

    we are helpless to change things.

Our best may not be good enough.

Still it will have to do.

I’m not o.k.  You’re not o.k.  And that’s o.k.”

Hang in there, dear listeners! We’ll be back with new episodes in February 2020!

We love our listeners! For the final 2 episodes of this season, Terry and Jayme responding to listener feedback, exploring the questions asked, and looking ahead to season 4! So for this episode, we delve into further conversation about romance, friendship, and folk/fairy tales.

We're back with a new episode where we talk about things that go bump in the night! A Scottish prayer reads:

'From ghoulies and ghosties

and long-leggedy beasties

And things that go bump in the night,

Good Lord, deliver us!'

In this episode, we talk about ghosts, spirits, the paranormal, and otherworldly in Outlander - just in time for Samhaim and All Hallow's Eve (Halloween). Enjoy!

We’re pulling together new episodes for you to finish off Season 3, but in the meantime, we’d like to invite you to revisit this earlier episode from Season 2 where we think and talk about Jamie's spiritual life and Celtic Spirituality.

In this episode we introduce Celtic spirituality and its origins and theological foundations. Then we apply that to Outlander, looking at Jamie's interior life and prayers as an embodiment of Celtic spirituality.

We’re pulling together new episodes for you to finish off Season 3, but in the meantime, we’d like to invite you to revisit an earlier episode from Season 1 where we think and talk about Claire’s spiritual growth.

As a central character, Claire's experience shapes the tone of the Outlander series. In this episode, Jayme and Terry discuss how Claire's inner life and spirituality change and mature over the course of the series and we set the stage for looking at other characters and their own spiritualities in future episodes.

We were guests at the Wild Goose Festival 2019, and hosted a live podcast episode centered on the topic of what it means to read fiction as sacred text, and specifically what it means to read Outlander as a sacred text. Join us for a conversation with a live audience and delve into the idea that we are the stories we tell ourselves!

We're back with part 2 with our wonderful guest (and listener) Dr Amy Davis, a film/media scholar based at the University of Hull in the UK. We continue our talk and share with you all you wanted to know but didn't about the ways in which Outlander resonates with and differs from classic fairy tales and works as a feminist fairy tale itself.

Outlander! Fairy Tales! Feminism! We're delighted to have our wonderful guest (and listener) Dr Amy Davis, a film/media scholar based at the University of Hull in the UK, on the podcast over the next 2 episodes! In this episode, we talk about the ways in which Outlander resonates with and differs from classic fairy tales and works as a feminist fairy tale itself.

The last episode was Part 1 where we started the conversation on vengeance and justice, and then quickly realised we also needed to talk about forgiveness and mercy too. So, we keep it going with Part 2, where we continue our discussion related to Jamie and Black Jack, Murtagh and the Duke of Sandringham, Wee Ian as a man of violence and Arch Bug's vengeance, Claire and Laoghaire, Claire and Jamie and Faith..... the list goes on and on. Enjoy!