Episode 22 - Encountering Beauty With Our Hearts

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, "​“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” How do we encounter that which is fair, what is beautiful, with our hearts? 

​Show Notes ​​​​​​

Topics we discussed:

• How to encounter beauty through music, nature, and literature
• ​​Why you should sing (even if you're tone deaf)
• How to pause and contemplate beauty in our daily lives

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Resources we mentioned:

• "Evangelizing through Beauty" by Bishop Robert Barron
• 7 Reasons Why You Need to Crack Open That Mass Hymnal and Make a Joyful Noise
• This Is the Surprising State With the Highest Suicide Rate3
• "My Sisters the Saints" by Colleen Carroll Campbell
• ​"Tolkien's Theology of Beauty" by Lisa Coutras Terris
• "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
• "The Island of the World" by Michael O'Brien
• "The Divine Comedy" by Dante
• ​"The Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot
• "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
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Find Sarah Burns:

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