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The Way of Beauty Podcast

David Clayton discusses the intersection of faith, art, and culture through the lens of Catholic teaching and the Way of Beauty.

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Episode 51 - Jennifer Frey: Philosopher, on Morality, Virtue and Happiness

Episode 51 - Jennifer Frey: Philosopher, on Morality, Virtue and Happiness

In this episode, I talk with Jennifer Frey from South Carolina. She is a convert who was persuaded by the writings of Au... Read more

10 Oct 2019

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Episode 22 - Transforming Your Future: Finding a New Direction After the Seminary

Episode 22 - Transforming Your Future: Finding a New Direction After the Seminary

A little over a year ago, my Pastor, Fr. Sebastian Carnazzo referred a friend of his to me for some help. Ryan had just ... Read more

17 Jan 2019

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Episode 36 - Matt Horwitz: The Relevance of Fr Vincent McNabb's Writings on Inspiration, Scripture and Mysticism Today

Episode 36 - Matt Horwitz: The Relevance of Fr Vincent McNabb's Writings on Inspiration, Scripture and Mysticism Today

Here I talk to Matthew Horwitz who was the editor of the Pontifex University Press republication of a series of essays b... Read more

2 May 2019

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Episode 11 - Beauty and the Beast - About The Transcendentals

Episode 11 - Beauty and the Beast - About The Transcendentals

Is ‘I like it’ the same as ‘It is good’? Tradition says no, but many people today say yes. Is beauty in the eye of the b... Read more

25 Oct 2018

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Episode 4 - Contemplative Prayer with Visual Images and Transformation

Episode 4 - Contemplative Prayer with Visual Images and Transformation

Here is an in-depth explanation of how to do meditation and contemplation with sacred art, and how it helps to transform... Read more

6 Sep 2018

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Episode 7 - The Mathematics of Beauty

Episode 7 - The Mathematics of Beauty

This is just like a musical chord, in which you have three different notes that combine to create a single harmonious wh... Read more

27 Sep 2018

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Episode 43 - Fr Jeffrey Kirby on His Book For Everyday Mystics

Episode 43 - Fr Jeffrey Kirby on His Book For Everyday Mystics

Be Not Troubled, A Six Day Personal Retreat with Fr Jean-Pierre DeCaussade, pub Ave Maria Press, 2019 I talk to our old ... Read more

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Episode 31: Christopher West and David Clayton on Popular Culture and the New Evangelization – Our Lady of Guadalupe and Bruce Springsteen

Episode 31: Christopher West and David Clayton on Popular Culture and the New Evangelization – Our Lady of Guadalupe and Bruce Springsteen

This week we are delighted to have Christopher West on the Way of Beauty podcast. You very likely know of his as the pas... Read more

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Episode 10 – Rachel Fulton Brown on How A True, Medieval-Style Devotion to Mary Will Save the Faith and the Culture

Episode 10 – Rachel Fulton Brown on How A True, Medieval-Style Devotion to Mary Will Save the Faith and the Culture

Today I am in conversation with Rachel Fulton Brown from the Department of History at the University of Chicago and who... Read more

18 Oct 2018

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Episode 3 - The Domestic Church and the New Evangelization

Episode 3 - The Domestic Church and the New Evangelization

These are two old ideas that are new to many people today, and surprisingly they are connected. Pope Benedict XVI told u... Read more

30 Aug 2018

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Episode 30 - Nourishing the Temple of the Holy Spirity - A Christian Program of Diet and Exercise?

Episode 30 - Nourishing the Temple of the Holy Spirity - A Christian Program of Diet and Exercise?

This is the latest in our series on lay spirituality - the Cloister in the Cul-de-Sac: Human beings are amphibians, part... Read more

7 Mar 2019

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Episode 19 - Jonathan Pageau on his art and evangelizing the culture through symbols

Episode 19 - Jonathan Pageau on his art and evangelizing the culture through symbols

Jonathan Pageau is an artist who sculpts icons, and an expert in the symbolism of art who is working to re-awaken our se... Read more

20 Dec 2018

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Episode 16 - Dr Carrie Gress: Femininity and Feminism, Mary and Anti-Mary

Episode 16 - Dr Carrie Gress: Femininity and Feminism, Mary and Anti-Mary

Dr. Carrie Gress is a philosopher, writer and cultural commentator. She teaches philosophy at www.Pontifex.University an... Read more

29 Nov 2018

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Episode 57 - Charlie Deist: How To Develop Personal Discipline for Diet and Exercise With Spiritual Tools

Episode 57 - Charlie Deist: How To Develop Personal Discipline for Diet and Exercise With Spiritual Tools

Charlie does the interviewing today! I am honored to be interviewed here for the first of Charlie’s newly launched podca... Read more

5 Dec 2019

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Episode 32 - Sacred Music Composer Paul Jernberg: Nourishing the Sacred Gift of the Traditions of Holy Music

Episode 32 - Sacred Music Composer Paul Jernberg: Nourishing the Sacred Gift of the Traditions of Holy Music

Composer of Paul Jernberg talks his mission to save the music of the ordinary parish. He describes the development of th... Read more

21 Mar 2019

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Episode 15 - Growing Old Gracefully

Episode 15 - Growing Old Gracefully

The modern cult of youth promotes a life where we do our utmost to delay the effect of ageing. It is considered a compli... Read more

22 Nov 2018

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Episode 52 - Harmonizing Nutritional Science and Intermittent Fasting with Traditional Fasting and Feasting

Episode 52 - Harmonizing Nutritional Science and Intermittent Fasting with Traditional Fasting and Feasting

"However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” – Matthew 17:21 Fasting induces something known as "a... Read more

17 Oct 2019

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Episode 18 - 'The Cloister in the Cul-de-Sac' Creating Community in City and Suburb

Episode 18 - 'The Cloister in the Cul-de-Sac' Creating Community in City and Suburb

This is second in a series we are calling 'The Cloister in the cul-de-sac.' They are all about the principles of buildin... Read more

13 Dec 2018

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Episode 39 - Paul Jernberg #6 Hesychasm, Nepsis and Theosis: the Special Spiritual Impact of Sacred Music

Episode 39 - Paul Jernberg #6 Hesychasm, Nepsis and Theosis: the Special Spiritual Impact of Sacred Music

David Clayton and Paul Jernberg discuss the power of sacred music to form us spirituality which is part of the richness ... Read more

13 Jun 2019

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Episode 5 - Faith & Freedom: Foundations of a Culture of Beauty

Episode 5 - Faith & Freedom: Foundations of a Culture of Beauty

In this and the next few podcasts we will be exploring ideas about culture. Four fundamental questions will, I hope, be ... Read more

13 Sep 2018

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