Sacred and Profane Love
Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.Podcasts
Re-run: Episode 43 - The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
Published: Sept. 1, 2023, 4:32 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 20 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 50 - "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
Published: Aug. 25, 2023, 2:59 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 45 - Roosevelt Montas on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
Published: Aug. 18, 2023, 2:38 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 9 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 41 - James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
Published: Aug. 11, 2023, 2:38 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 20 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 1 - Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery OConnor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Published: Aug. 4, 2023, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 55 - Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
Published: July 28, 2023, 3:16 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 52 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 56 - Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Published: July 21, 2023, 2:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 10 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 48 - Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs
Published: July 14, 2023, 2:34 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Re-run: Episode 51 - A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey
Published: July 8, 2023, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 13 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Summer Update
Published: July 7, 2023, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
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Episode 63: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part III
Published: June 14, 2023, 2:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 53 seconds
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Episode 62: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part II
Published: April 19, 2023, 2:40 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes 44 seconds
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Episode 61: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part I
Published: March 17, 2023, 2:03 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes 2 seconds
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Episode 60: Randy Boyagoda on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana
Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 19 seconds
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Episode 59: TS Eliot with Anthony Domestico
Published: Jan. 16, 2023, 2:57 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 42 seconds
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Episode 58: Justin E.H. Smith on Edgar Allan Poe
Published: Dec. 30, 2022, 10:17 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 52 seconds
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Episode 57: JM Coetzee on Philosophy, Fiction, and the Academy
Published: Dec. 16, 2022, 2:55 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 51 seconds
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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
Published: Dec. 2, 2022, 3:04 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 10 seconds
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Episode 55: Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 1:40 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 52 seconds
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Episode 54: Karen Swallow Prior on The Scarlet Letter
Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 2 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 50 seconds
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Episode 53: Paul Mariani on Robert Lowell
Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 1:31 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 57 seconds
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Episode 52: The Hillbilly Thomists
Published: Sept. 16, 2022, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds
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Episode 51: A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey
Published: July 11, 2022, 8:05 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 12 seconds
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Episode 50: "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
Published: July 1, 2022, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Episode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky Per
Published: May 20, 2022, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 41 minutes 57 seconds
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Episode 48: Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs
Published: April 28, 2022, 10:31 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Episode 47: Justin E.H. Smith on Suttree
Published: March 18, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 52 seconds
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Episode 46: Katy Carl
Published: Feb. 4, 2022, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 49 seconds
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Episode 45: Roosevelt Montas on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
Published: Jan. 14, 2022, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 9 seconds
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Episode 44: The Tragic Abyss with Dr. Kevin Kambo
Published: Dec. 31, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 27 seconds
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Episode 43: The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 20 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 42: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 4:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 1 second
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Episode 42: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
Published: Nov. 5, 2021, 4:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 2 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 41: James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 19 seconds
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Episode 41: James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
Published: Oct. 21, 2021, 1:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 20 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill
Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 6:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 29 seconds
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Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill
Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 6:55 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 30 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 seconds
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Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 56 seconds
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Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 57 seconds
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Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature
Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 3:39 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 32 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Published: Aug. 2, 2021, 8:06 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 35 seconds
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Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
Published: Aug. 2, 2021, 8:06 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 36 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 36: The Realist Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
Published: June 25, 2021, 9:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 56 seconds
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Episode 36: The Realist Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
Published: June 25, 2021, 9:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 35: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen
Published: June 1, 2021, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 49 seconds
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Episode 35: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen
Published: June 1, 2021, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 50 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 34: Dante's Paradiso
Published: May 17, 2021, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 39 seconds
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Episode 34: Dante's Paradiso
Published: May 17, 2021, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 40 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 33: Dante's Purgatorio
Published: April 12, 2021, 2:21 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 25 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 32: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
Published: March 16, 2021, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 54 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 31: The Hellish Desires of Dante's Inferno
Published: March 1, 2021, 8:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 8 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 30: The Seducer, Self-Creation and The Aesthete
Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 2:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 38 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 28: Agnes Callard on Antigone
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 9:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 43 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 27: Karen Swallow Prior on Reading Joseph Conrad Well
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 9:35 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 45 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 26: St. Augustine and the Index of Self-Destructive Acts
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 9:31 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 17 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 25: On Solitude with Rilke and Merton
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 9:14 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 4 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a Plague
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 51 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 8:47 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 38 minutes 22 seconds
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Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 8:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 13 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrads Lord Jim
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:54 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 29 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scrutons Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 12 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 19: Love and Lust in Lolita
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:46 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 16 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 18: Carrying the Flame
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:40 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 9 seconds
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Episode 17: The Death of a Whisky Priest
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:37 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 8 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 16: King Lears Vision
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 7:03 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 53 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 15 : Faustian Ambitions
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:36 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 22 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 14: Walker Percy on Being Lost in the Cosmos
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:12 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 10 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 13: Jane Austen on the Virtues of Social Life
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 59 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 12: Meaning, Murder, and Divine Madness
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6:03 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 34 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 11: The Contemplative Realism of Marilynne Robinson
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 46 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 10: A Twitch Upon The Thread
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 5:55 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 9: Revelations of Love in John Steinbeck
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 35 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 8: Sophocles and Tragic Love
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 5:33 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 7: Boasts of Love in Troilus and Criseyde
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 5:25 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 27 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 6: Elena Ferrante on Friendship and the Intellectual Life
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 4:53 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 5: Eros and Ecstasy
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 4: Fantasy, Romance, and Self-destruction in Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 8:14 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 1 second
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 3: Walt Whitman on Hope and National Character
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 11 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 2: Transfiguring Love in the Brothers Karamazov
Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 9 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 39 seconds
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 1: Redemptive Love and Comic Mercy in the Short Stories of Flannery OConnor
Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 9:26 p.m.Duration: 52 minutes 2 seconds
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