Thinking.FM’s First Show

Sam Harrelson on February 13, 2009

Thomas Whitley and I recorded the first episode of our soon-to-be titled show on religion/theology/Baptist life (click for mp3 or right click to download to your desktop… streaming coming soon!):

Thomas and Sam Show 1 mp3

– The Pope and Interfaith Dialogue Blunders
– Eisenbraun’s on Twitter
– Obama and Religion
– BIG IDEA Segment: Darwin vs God
– Wrestling With God

This is the first show ready for Thinking.fm which will be all set to go sometime this evening.

It’s been a ton of work, but I’m really pleased and excited about pulling that all together (more soon).

Julian of Norwich mp3’s

Sam Harrelson on February 12, 2009

Here is a great resource of mp3 recordings of notable texts from the early Medieval period, including a recording of the Westminister Manuscript version of Julian of Norwich’s Showings:

Voice Recording of Westminster Manuscript Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love: Julian1.mp3, Julian2.mp3, Julian3.mp3, Julian4.mp3

Beyond Julian, there’s a whole slew of other recordings linked (I haven’t listened to all of these, so no idea on the quality, etc):

Voice Recording of The Soul a City: Julian and Margery

Voice Recording of Julian of Norwich, The Lord and the Servant Newest

Voice Recording of Martin Buber’s Julian of Norwich

Song Recording of Lydia McCauley, Sabbath Day’s Journey: ‘And All Shall Be Well’

Voice Recording of Thomas Gascoigne’s Life of St Birgitta at birgitvita.mp3 Newest

Voice Recording of Quaker John Woolman, Plea for the Poor: Woolman1.mp3, Woolman2.mp3, Woolman3.mp3, Woolman4.mp3

Voice Recording of Augustine, Confessions XI

Recording of Ambrosian Chant, ‘Deus Creator Omnium’, heard by Augustine in Milan

Voice Recording of Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Dante: Julian’s Mystical Philosophy at augmyst.mp3

Voice Recordings in italiano of Dante Alighieri, Commedia, recited, Carlo Poli,
Lettura di Carlo Poli, Inferno I, Inferno II, Inferno III, Inferno IV, Inferno V, Inferno VIII, Inferno X, Inferno XIII, Inferno XV, Inferno XVI, Inferno XXXIII, Inferno XXXIV
Purgatorio I, Purgatorio II, Purgatorio III, Purgatorio IV, Purgatorio V, Purgatorio VI, Purgatorio VII, Purgatorio VIII, Purgatorio X, Purgatorio XI, Purgatorio XX, Purgatorio XXI, Purgatorio XXIX, Purgatorio XXX, Purgatorio XXXI, Purgatorio XXXII, Purgatorio XXXIII, Paradiso I, Paradiso II, Paradiso III, Paradiso IV, Paradiso V, Paradiso XXXIII, Padre Nostro, Vergine Madre

Voice Recording of Poems Pennyeach at poems.mp3

Song and Voice Recording of Hedera, who is Rom from Romania, singing ‘Alleluia’

Voice Recording of Romany Vocabulary by Daniel Dumitrescu, Vandana Culea and JBH at Romany.mp3

via INDEX: GODFRIENDS’ WEBSITES ON JULIAN OF NORWICH, HER ‘SHOWING OF LOVE’ AND ITS CONTEXTS

Additionally, you can read Julian of Norwich’s text via Google’s increasingly excellent Book Search feature: Julian of Norwich on Google Books

Always great to find these sorts of free resources out there on materials that are in the public domain. I normally much prefer the quality and presentation of a “paid” version (such as the Classics of Western Spirituality edition
which has twice as much material from the editors and relevant scholars as primary text itself), but the Google search is handy if you don’t want/need that much secondary depth or quality.

Julian of Norwich

Sam Harrelson on February 11, 2009



I presented an overview of Julian of Norwich’s Showings
along with a brief overview of 14th Century England to a class at Gardner-Webb yesterday.

My Masters degree from Yale included a heavy focus on the writings of Piers Plowman and associated “Lollard” literature, so it was a natural fit for me to present on Julian given her historical and geographical context.

Needless to say, I had a blast putting this together (with the help of BeeDocs):

Here is the presentation itself:

http://viewer.docstoc.com/
Julian of Norwich

And here is the basic text of the presentation as well:

http://viewer.docstoc.com/
Julian of Norwich and 14th Century England

Julian’s work really is fascinating (as is the history of 14th Century Europe). I can’t recommend the study of either/both enough!

BTW, I normally use Scribd for these sorts of embeds and uploads of documents, but they’ve been having problems all morning. Frustrating. So, I’m using DocStoc. Let me know if you have a preference between those two.