Speaking with Joy

By Joy Marie ClarksonArts Books

Speaking with Joy episodes

June 11, 2018 Reading with Joy - The Banality of Evil
William Blake, desire, the DMV... how do they all relate? Listen in to find out!
27 min
June 03, 2018 A Summer Book Club! - Reading with Joy
Hello, friends! After a short hiatus, I have an exciting announcement: I'll be hosting a summer book club on The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis! Listen in on this introductory episode to find out all about it! Find the show notes at joyclarkson.com
If you want to join in on the discussion, make sure to join either the Twitter Page ("Reading with Joy" @_readingwithjoy) or the Facebook page (Joy Clarkson).
10 min
May 07, 2018 Episode Twenty: The Impossible Task and the Peaceable Kingdom
How do you live in a world gone mad? How do you build a life of good things when it feels like an impossible task? Like the world might end? This is the question that many of the songwriters of the Sixties were dealing with, and it is the topic of this episode. Tune in for a magical old folk tune, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, and the same image painted 62 times.
Get the shownotes at joyclarkson.com.
30 min
April 23, 2018 Episode Nineteen: Do Something that Won't Compute
Wendell Berry thinks the world is more like a mystery than a machine. In his poem "The Mad Farmer's Liberation Front" he gives us a radical manifesto for lives that don't compute.
26 min
April 23, 2018 Episode Nineteen: Do Something that Won’t Compute
Wendell Berry thinks the world is more like a mystery than a machine. In his poem "The Mad Farmer's Liberation Front" he gives us a radical manifesto for lives that don't compute.
26 min
April 09, 2018 Episode Eighteen: Women's Friendships in Film and Television (feat. Elena Trueba!)
Women have friends...
In the third episode of a series on art by, about, and concerning women, this episode focuses on the theme of women's friendships as they are portrayed in film and television. I have the great delight of discussing this topic with my dearest friend Elena Trueba. Elena is a masters student in Religion and Politics at Harvard, and works in screenwriting.
Listen to this episode for erudite diagnoses of women's friendship in film, stories about Elena's and my college days, and tips on friendship.
1 hr 4 min
April 09, 2018 Episode Eighteen: Women’s Friendships in Film and Television (feat. Elena Trueba!)
Women have friends...

In the third episode of a series on art by, about, and concerning women, this episode focuses on the theme of women's friendships as they are portrayed in film and television. I have the great delight of discussing this topic with my dearest friend Elena Trueba. Elena is a masters student in Religion and Politics at Harvard, and works in screenwriting.

Listen to this episode for erudite diagnoses of women's friendship in film, stories about Elena's and my college days, and tips on friendship.
1 hr 4 min
April 04, 2018 Episode Seventeen: The Philosophy of Tea
“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
- Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

This week's episode explores how the ritual of tea creates moments of contemplation, calm, and community in our lives. Check out the show notes at joyclarkson.com
18 min
March 29, 2018 Easter Episode: Entering the Story of Holy Week
Bach is one of the greatest composers of all time, and the St. Matthew Passion is his greatest accomplishment. But it is not simply a masterpiece of music; it is a work of deep personal faith.
So, whether you are a believer, someone who knows this story as your own, someone who does not believe, but perhaps sees some value in this story, or someone who wishes they could believe but struggles, I, with Bach, invite you into this story.
25 min
March 22, 2018 Episode Fifteen: Turning Darkness into Light
What do you do if vikings burn down your monastery 17 times in 15 years? Find out in today's poscast.
24 min