Greetings subscribers!
Some of you have just recently joined us: welcome! We’re so glad you’re here, and we hope you will reach out to share your thoughts with us via Substack.
Others of you have been here for a while, and to you we want to say thanks: you are the reason we are on the verge of starting our 5th season. Podcasting can be so impersonal, because you send material out, and you don’t see what effect (if any) it has out there. But the number of you who have found one of us at conferences and told us how you read along with us, or use our episodes to help you prep for teaching, has been really encouraging.
And we’re just getting started. You’ve seen the book list for season 5. We also have exciting guests coming to join us, including Malcolm Guite discussing Tolkien’s incomplete poem The Fall of Arthur and leading artist and thinker on aesthetics Makoto Fujimura to discuss Endo’s Silence.
As the show continues to grow and evolve, we are coming to depend more than ever before on the support of our subscribers. We’d like to invite you to consider becoming a paid subscriber at the modest rate of $5 per month. As a paid subscriber, you gain access to:
An additional episode on each book that focuses on strategies and advice for teaching it well
Behind-the-scenes discussions with our guests
Special bonus episodes ranging from discussions of works related to those featured in the main episodes to the afterlife of the stories or ideas in popular culture.
Many hands make light work, and your small contribution could make a big difference to the work we are able to do going forward. Won’t you consider joining us as a $5 per month paid subscriber?
Either way, we continue to be grateful for your support, and we look forward to many more seasons!
Keep reading,
Junius and Wesley