Welcome to Quiddity, the original podcast from the CiRCE Institute, featuring interviews and ideas that are important to Christian classical education. 

In episode #51, author/blogger/speaker/mom, Sarah Mackenzie, joins David Kern to provide some speciifc tips on how best to teach from a state of rest, what teaching from rest could look like in a traditional school setting, what's new in the updated second edition of her book, Teaching From Rest: A Homeschooler's Guide to Unshakeable Peace (out August 3rd), and much more. 

You can find Sarah at amongstlovelythings.com and you find a copy of her book at classicalacademicpress.com. 

Close Reads is a new book club podcast from the CiRCE Institute Podcast Network featuring Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh, who join host David Kern to discuss Great Books and the authors who create them. 

Here in episode 4 they discuss Jean Paul Sartre's French existentialist short story, The Wall, the tale of a Spanish Civil War-era soldier who is facing death by a firing squad. 

The Commons is a brand new podcast from the CiRCE Institute Podcast Network. Hosted by Dr. Brian Phillips this show contemplates the lives and times of people worth imitating. 

In episode two Brian chats with musician and scholar, Greg Wilbur, about one of history's most important artists: composer Johann Sebastian Bach.  

Gregory Wilbur is Chief Musician at Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, TN, as well as Dean and Senior Fellow of New College Franklin—a Christian liberal arts college that he helped to start. He enjoys discipling students and walking them through classics of literature, film, and music. He earned his Masters in Music Composition at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Glory and Honor: The Music and Artistic Legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach and has released two CDs of his compositions of congregational psalms, hymns and service music. In addition, he writes for choir, orchestra, film and chamber ensembles. His wife, Sophia, homeschools their daughter, Eleanor, and they all enjoy reading, cooking, taking walks and enjoying life in middle Tennessee.    

Close Reads is a new book club podcast from the CiRCE Institute Podcast Network featuring Angelina Stanford and Tim McIntosh, who join host, David Kern, to discuss Great Books and the authors who create them. 

Here in episode 3 they discuss P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful short story, The Aunt and the Sluggard. 

In this, the 50th episode of Quiddity, our flagship podcast, David Kern interviews Carol Zaleski, co-author of The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings. 

Discussion touches on the role of WWI in their collective lives, how the Inkling would respond to the issues of our day, and why Charles Williams and Owen Barfield belong in the same conversation with Lewis and Tolkien. Enjoy!