This week, CiRCE podcasts contemplated Schole’, Graham Green’s The End of the Affair, the nature of things and what usually happens, Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, and life and death during Queen Victoria’s reign. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review, wherever you like to listen to podcasts!
Café Scholé
Episode 6 – Christ, the Teacher
Episode 5 – Finding Scholé without Seeking It
Episode 4 – Scholé in the Scriptural Tradition
Episode 3 – Scholé in the Ecclesial/Church Tradition
Episode 2 – Schole in the Classical Tradition
Episode 1 – Searching for Scholé, Sabbath, and Shalom
Close Reads
The End of the Affair: Book 4-Book 5.3
Time flies when you’re having fun (is not the lesson of this book). We are plowing our way through The End of the Affair and the end of the book is near. This week Tim is away (at sea, we think), so Heidi and David chatted about Sarah’s death, Henry’s invitation to Maurice, Maurice’s hatred of God, and the way the book’s writing shifts a bit during this section.
The End of the Affair: Book Three
The End of the Affair: Part One
Proverbial
This week’s proverb comes to us via Solomon who wrote: “The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth the brilliant or favor to the learned, but time and chance happen to them all.” Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.
The Daily Poem
Thursday, May 28: E. Nesbit’s “The Despot”
Wednesday, May 27: W.H. Auden’s “Their Lonely Betters”
Tuesday, May 26: Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden”
The Play’s the Thing
Victoria’s World
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 2)
A History of the Royal Navy (Part 1)
Inventors & Inventions of Victorian England
The Weapons that Forged an Empire
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Queen Victoria
The Charge of the Light Brigade
British Raids in East Africa: The Story of Wituland
The Boer War: Costly Lessons for the British Empire
The Siege of Khartoum – Radical Islam Encounters the British Empire
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Victorian Sensation
The Battle of Rorke’s Drift – A Last Stand Against the Zulus
The Victorian Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Tour of Victorian London Through the Eyes of Charles Dickens