Speaking with Joy

By Joy Marie ClarksonArts Books

Speaking with Joy episodes

July 29, 2018 Reading with Joy - Checkmate …Finale!
In this final episode, I share my biggest take aways from the book: desire is good, choices matter, and everyone can be redeemed.
21 min
July 23, 2018 Reading with Joy - Out of Love I Will Not Go (Chapter 12)
Hell and Heaven and Universalism... Oh my!
27 min
July 23, 2018 Reading with Joy - Giving and Needing Love
“Need-love says of a woman, “I cannot live without her”; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him.”
23 min
July 19, 2018 Reading with Joy - High and Holy Feelings
Could a mother's love keep her out of heaven? Could a man's erotic desire draw him in?
Tune in to this week's episode to find out!
26 min
July 17, 2018 Reading with Joy - To Set Another Before You
This week we meet a ghost who's self-centredness blinds her, making her incapable of self knowledge and of love.
21 min
July 12, 2018 Reading with Joy - All Who are In Hell Choose It (Chapter 9)
This week we meet Lewis' Virgil: George MacDonald. And we discover the core idea of the book, well summarized in this quote:
"Never fear. There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened."
23 min
July 10, 2018 Reading with Joy - On Being Seen (chapter 8)
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
- Timothy Keller
This week we encounter a ghost who doesn't want to be seen, who reminds us that healing, learning, and growth must begin with vulnerability.
13 min
July 03, 2018 Reading with Joy - Hardbitten and Bowled Over
In chapter 6 and 7, we meet the man in a bowler hat and the hard bitten ghost and travel even further into heaven. Tune in for readings and discussions with Joy and Joel!
29 min
June 28, 2018 Reading with Joy - Sins of the Intellect (Week Three)
The Episcopalian ghost likes thinking about heaven so much that he'd rather not explore the actual place itself! Tune in for our third week of the summer book club on The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. (Chapters 6 & 7 next week).
24 min
June 21, 2018 Reading with Joy - Daisies as Hard as Diamonds
Why is the heavenly world as hard as diamonds? Will the sun ever rise? Why are the ghosts so lonely... and what does Augustine have to do with it all? Listen in to find out!
41 min