SS #137: Fairy Tales are True (with Vigen Guroian!!)
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is Vigen Guroian. Until his retirement in 2015, Dr. Guroian was Professor of Religious Studies in Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a Permanent Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at Emory University, Distinguished Fellow of the John Jay Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. He also is on the faculty of Memoria College online. Most importantly for our purposes, he is the author of a book we love and highly recommend: Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
Today's episode was such a delight to record. Abby and Brandy had a great time discussing with Dr. Guroian truth and how it relates to fairy tales. You're going to love this conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | Your book tells us how do we do this with our children, right? |
| 0:02.8 | We read these stories. |
| 0:03.9 | We talk about them in not a methodological way, but how do we as adults cultivate and train our moral imagination? |
| 0:12.3 | Maybe we were deficient, right, in our growing up years. |
| 0:15.7 | So how do we do that now as adults? |
| 0:27.4 | Yeah. How do we do that now as adults? Welcome to Skalae Sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking moms we can. |
| 0:33.8 | This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done. |
| 0:41.3 | Scalae Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe that educating ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully, equips us for the task of educating our children. |
| 0:53.3 | I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. |
| 0:56.0 | To get my free, almost weekly, mostly Charlotte Mason newsletter, go to afterthoughtsblog.net |
| 1:03.0 | slash subscribe and sign up. |
| 1:06.0 | My co-host today is Abby Wall. |
| 1:09.0 | Abby is basically the queen of the Scholeysistership. |
| 1:13.1 | Abby is a country-living, farmer, rancher, a loving wife, and mom of five who homeschools and reads whenever she can. |
| 1:21.6 | Today's guest is Vegan Geroian. |
| 1:24.6 | Until his retirement in 2015, Vegan Geroian was professor of religious studies in |
| 1:29.4 | Orthodox Christianity at the University of Virginia. He is now a permanent senior fellow of the |
| 1:35.3 | Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Religion at |
| 1:40.4 | Emory University, distinguished fellow of the John Jay Institute and senior fellow at the |
| 1:45.5 | Trinity Forum. He also was on the faculty of Memorial College online. Most importantly, |
| 1:51.7 | for our purposes, he is the author of a book we love and highly recommend, hending the heart of |
| 1:57.7 | virtue, how classic stories awaken a child's moral imagination. |
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