On this special LIVE episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, David, and their special guest conclude their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited, focusing on the final chapters. 

This episode was recorded at the 2017 CiRCE Conference.

Topics include:

• The love story
• Whether this story is tragedy
• Whether people wanted Julia and Charles to stay together
• The sign of the cross and aesthetic theology
• The ongoing thread twitches
• Listener comments
• and much more

This episode is brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh. 

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On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 9. 

Topics include:

• Julia's prescience
• Julia's guilty conscience
• Bridey's strong words
• Ryder's skepticism
• and much more

This episode is brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh. 

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In this episode of The Mason Jar Q&A, Cindy answers listener questions.

Topics include: 

• Introducing morning time to pre-schoolers
• How to use written narration with a formal writing curriculum
• Advice on teaching boys to read
• Charlotte Mason and Classical Education

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This episode is brought to you by Morningtide to Eventide, purveyors of planners and calendars designed specifically for homeschoolers. 

In this episode of The Commons, Brian Phillips chats with Dr. Craigh Bernthal, professor of English at Cal State Fullerton, about J.R.R. Tolkien. Dr. Bernthal is the author of Tolkien's Sacramental Vision: Discerning the Holy in Middle Earth.

Topics include: 

- How Dr. Bernthal discovered a love of Tolkien
- What a sacramental vision is and how Tolkien captures it
- Tolkien as medievel in a modern world
- Tolkien's interesting story
- and much more

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 9. 

Topics include:

• The interesting structure of the chapter
• Celia's infedelity
• Much more on perspective
• The metaphor of the storm
• Characters repeating patterns
• Whether this first chapter where anything actually happens
• and much more...

This episode is brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh. 

In this episode of our flagship podcast, David chats with Adam Greene and Devin O'Donnell of Bibliotheca, a typographically elegant multivolume edition of the entire biblical library.

Topics include:

- The challenges of Bible translation 
- Seeing the Scriptures as poetry
- The non-traditional experience of reading Scripture without notes and verses
- Typography and book design
- And music more

In this episode of The Mason Jar Q&A, Cindy chats with Camille Malucci (of the Charlotte Mason Institute) about a handicraft called sloyd,  in which Charlotte Mason was a believer. 

Topics include: 

• What sloyd is
• Where it came from
• Why Mason believed in it
• And how to do it in your homes

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This episode is brought to you by Morningtide to Eventide, purveyors of planners and calendars designed specifically for homeschoolers. 

On this episode of Close Reads, Angelina, Tim, and David continue their discussion of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel, Brideshead Revisited, focusing on chapter 7. 

Topics include:

• Getting to know Julia
• Rex's ignorance
• Why Charles is attracted to Julia
• "Modern" education
• Perspective and Waugh
• and more...

This episode is brought to you by our friends at the Institute for Excellence in Writing, purveyors of Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization. Learn more here. 

This episode is brought to you by Schole Academy from Classical Academic Press, featuring new literature courses taught by Close Reads co-star, Tim McIntosh.