The Effort of a Lifetime: Craft, Restoration, and Mentoring with Alfred Lohmann
What does it take to make something that will still be standing in a hundred years?
Podcast
Forged: Timeless Ways of Living
In this podcast, Dr. Brian Williams of the Templeton Honors College interviews men (and some women) to learn how they seek to forge meaningful lives of at work, home, and in the broader culture.
Episodes
Making Room for Beauty in Everyday Life with David and Phaedra Taylor
What would change if we treated every part of our lives as worthy of prayer?
What Do We Lose When Work Becomes Only a Paycheck? with Jeffrey Dill
What happens when work becomes little more than a paycheck, food becomes something we expect to appear in a grocery store, and home becomes mostly a place of consumption?
The Cost of Ambition and a Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf
What happens when your sense of worth depends on being better than the people around you? And what changes when you stop asking how you rank and start asking what kind of life is actually worth living?
Encountering the Real: Mathematics, Education, and AI with Jake Tawney
What if mathematics is not merely a tool for solving problems, but a way of encountering reality?
Junius Johnson on Learning to See the World as Wild and Wonderful
How do fairy stories prepare children for a world of suffering, courage, beauty, and surprise?
Hope Is a Practice: Dr. Lydia Dugdale on The Lost Art of Dying Well
How can we prepare for death without becoming consumed by it? And what might the lost art of dying teach us about living with greater wisdom, agency, and hope?
Elliot Ackerman on Fatherhood, Friendship, and the Habits That Shape Men
How does a father help his son become a good man?
Why Making Things Matters: Andrew Peterson on Beauty, Discipline, and Hope
What kind of person is formed by songs, stories, gardens, books, and the patient work of making? This episode is a living picture of classical education beyond the classroom.
How Young Adults Can Recover Hope, Friendship, and Vocation with Anna Moreland
What happens when young adults have been taught how to achieve, but not how to work, love, and rest like whole persons? In this episode of Forged, Dr.
Rusty Reno on The Ordinary Practices that Shape the Soul
What does it take to form a life with roots, discipline, and courage in an age of distraction and drift? In this episode of Forged, Brian Williams talks with R.
Festival as a Way of Life: Father Nathan Carr on Joy, Time, and Christian Formation
What would it mean to practice festival at home, in school, and in church?