Hello, everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind, and make you brave.

I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true, and beautiful.

So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode.

Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.

But of the good which there I found, speak will I?

Hi, everybody. I'm so excited to have you back with me today for this next episode in our series

of podcasts. Today's episode is fun. I got to talk with one of my former

lecturers from St. Andrews University, and we talked about Dante's Comedia, which is a story

about someone who is, as you just heard from the opening lines, Lost in the Darkwood of Life,

seeking orientation. It was so fun to discuss this work with George, who is something of an

expert in it, and to think about the ways in which beauty might be something that guides us in

the dark wood of our life. So I hope you'll enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it. In the mezzo of the camine of our life, me

I re-trovai for a selvo-scura that the right via was smarita.

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pensier, rinova, la power, Tante amara, that

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Speaking with Joy.

Today, I have great pleasure of inviting someone who used to be my lecturer at the Institute for Theology Imagination in the Arts.

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