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Close Reads Podcast

The Diary of a Country Priest: Chapters 1-2

Close Reads Podcast

Goldberry Studios

Arts, Books

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’re on to Georges Bernanos’ contemplative novel, The Diary of a Country Priest, and in this episode David, Heidi, and Sean discuss the fascinating narrative approach Bernanos employs, what themes seem to matter most, the notion of contemplation in the book, and how to approach a book in which very little happens (on the surface).

Future schedule:

Episode 2 (March 27): Chapters 3-4Episode 3 (April 3): Chapters 5-6Episode 4 (April 10): To the endEpisode 5 (April 17): Q&A

Click here to check out the upcoming CiRCE conference referenced at the top of this episode.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, David here. Thanks for tuning in to this episode on the Diary of a Country Priest,

0:05.5

the first two chapters. Before we get to that, though, I want to let you know about two

0:10.0

name your price online conferences that the Circe Institute has and that are coming up fast.

0:15.8

First up is the 2023 Dwell Women's Conference, which begins on March 21st. With inspiration from speakers

0:23.7

like Close Reeds' very own Heidi White, as well as Karen Kern, Nina Harris, Renee Mathis,

0:28.7

Andrew Lipinski, and Katarina Kern, this conference will consider how to strengthen our communities,

0:33.7

from the most intimate, our families, to the broader community, like churches,

0:38.6

schools, co-ops, and friendships. It will contemplate how in community people can engage in the good

0:43.8

work of nurturing our children in body, mind, and spirit. If you head over to surcey institute.org

0:49.8

slash events, you can sign up today. And to reiterate, you can pay whatever you want, $0, $5, $10, $100,

0:55.6

whatever. And you get to hear Heidi Live, of course. And then you also get all of the recordings

1:00.7

for free. So again, that is surcey institute.org slash events. And while you're there, if you want to,

1:06.2

you can also see another conference called a Cultivation of Virtue Online Conference. That's coming up

1:11.8

at April. It's also a name your own price. And the speakers for that are, well, our very own Tim McIntosh

1:17.5

here at Close Reets, Andrew Kern, Greg Wilbur, Christopher Perrin, West Callahan, and many others. So if you want to,

1:24.3

you can press pause on this podcast and head over to surceyinstitute.org

1:28.1

slash events, or you can click the link in the description, or you know, you can just type that

1:33.3

into whatever device you use to, you know, find stuff on the internet.

1:37.5

So again, that is surcy institute.org slash events.

1:40.5

And those are two different name your own conferencesown conferences featuring Close Reeds, Stars.

1:45.4

Heidi and Tim are Stars, right? I think so. All right, with that, let's get it over to this

1:49.0

week's episode. Thanks for listening.

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