Today Chris, Kate, Casey, and I are talking about creativity. What is creativity? What does it mean to be creative? How does pursuing creativity in work, life, marriage, and family make us more alive and help us live more deeply human lives? Also, why does my skin crawl when people use the word “creative” as a noun and not an adjective? (Seriously people, please don’t ever call me “a Creative.”)

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Mentioned on Today’s Episode

Articles and Books

John Paul II’s “Letter to Artists” 

A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf

“Christianity and Poetry,” by Dana Gioia

Studying With Miss Bishop by Dana Gioia  

Music

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