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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Claire Danes and Kate Bowler Book Clubbing with Kelly Part 1

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How do the values we inherited clash or complement the cultures we come of age in? How can we stay the right size in the world and in our own minds? What do you worship and nurture - art, the church, politics, food? Claire Danes and Kate Bowler join Kelly to talk about all the things that came up as they read Life Worth Living, our first Kelly Corrigan Wonders bookclub pick. Based on Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most from authors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz. Visit lifeworthliving.com/kelly to access a study guide to help you work through the book. Special thanks to the Warren Smoot Carter III and Meagan Carter Charitable Fund. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about some

0:13.6

very big questions at the absolute heart of every life.

0:19.9

Questions like how should we live, what should we hope for, and how would a good life feel?

0:26.0

The questions came to me through a book that I recently read called Life Forth Living,

0:30.1

a Guide to What Matters Most, which is based on a course at Yale.

0:34.6

Because I found the questions so valuable, I wanted to book club it, and so I asked two

0:40.4

yelies, the great actress Claire Daines and the great Divinity Professor Kate Boehler,

0:45.4

to join me in New York for a long, unguarded, non-judgmental, curiosity-forward conversation

0:52.2

about what makes life worth living.

0:55.4

Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, I'm Kelly Corrigan and today is the first of three episodes

1:14.7

with Claire Daines and Kate Boehler discussing what makes a life worth living, a conversation

1:21.6

inspired by the book Life Forth Living, a guide to what matters most.

1:25.9

From authors and Yale professors Miroslav Wolf, Matthew Crosman, and Ryan McInelly-Lins.

1:32.4

Claire Daines you know from her unforgettable performances in my so-called life, or Homeland,

1:36.7

or Fleshmen isn't trouble.

1:38.5

My kids know her because she was Leonardo DiCaprio's Juliet in the Baselurman film.

1:44.3

She spent some time at Yale and she's a fellow New Yorker who I've enjoyed getting to

1:48.2

know since I moved here.

1:50.0

Kate Boehler you likely know from her books or her podcast.

1:54.4

She has been a guest here and also on my PBS show Tell Me More, she's a Duke Divinity

1:59.7

Professor, a stage for cancer patient and a really important friend of mine.

2:05.2

So here is part one of a three-part conversation about life worth living with Claire Daines

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