We're kicking off season TWO of the Cultivate podcast with a special guest and a question: "What are beauty, goodness, and truth in the Christian tradition?" We're answering questions like:

• How have Christians historically understood beauty, goodness, and truth?
• How are these things linked in Christian thought? Can they be separated?
• Does art need to have all three qualities to be good Christian art?
• How can we pursue beauty, goodness, and truth?

Joining us this week is Brian Brown! Brian is the founder and executive director of the Anselm Society, a Colorado-based organization dedicated to a renaissance of the Christian imagination. His writing, teaching, and podcasting focuses on equipping Christians to see, live, and work like people of heaven.

Brian is the co-editor ofWhy We Create: Reflections on the Creator, the Creation, and Creating (Square Halo Books, 2023), and a contributing author to several scholarly works includingWhy Place Matters (ed. Wilfred McClay) and Faithful Creativity (forthcoming, ed. Matthew Niermann). He also authored the arts & culture section of theAlmanac of American Philanthropy (ed. Karl Zinsmeister, 2016).

Brian lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Christina and two children, where they enjoy singing, gardening, and less impressive-sounding activities.

Thanks for listening to the Cultivate podcast. If you’re in the Richmond, Virginia, area, we’d love for you to join us at one of our monthly gatherings, where we enjoy rich discussions, lectures, and fellowship as Christians in the pursuit of beauty, goodness, and truth.

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Show Notes:

• The Anselm Society:anselmsociety.org
• Anselm's Substack
• Imagination Redeemed Podcast
• Believe to See Podcast

What's Brian Enjoying?

• The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
• The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen R. Lawhead
• King Raven Trilogy by Stephen R. Lawhead

Further Reading/Watching/Listening:

• For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemman
• Why We Create: Reflections on the Creator, the Creation, and Creating, edited by Brian Brown
• Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the Worldby James Jordan
• A Meal with Jesus: Discovering Grace, Community, and Mission around the Table by Tim Chester
• The Symbolic World YouTube channel (Jonathan Pageau)
• Thomas Aquinas
• St. Augustine of Hippo
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