The Academy Podcast

The Academy Podcast

The official podcast of The Academy of Classical Christian Studies, located in Oklahoma City, OK.

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December 9, 2025 4 mins

In this conversation starter, Fr. Nathan takes us upstream to our children’s life of virtue.

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In this conversation starter, Andrew turns practical, thinks about the virtue of humility, and reads some Jane Austen. 

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In this holiday conversation starter, Andy Black is back from the aether with some well-wishes for our tens of listeners and some thoughts about the virtuous tension between feasting and fasting.

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Andrew leaves Nathan and Josh unattended and Eric does his best to channel his inner Andrew to keep things focused long enough to discuss the nature of virtue, exemplars and discerning your ends from your means. 

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In this conversation starter, Josh reflects on the relationship between virtues and ends. 

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In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr explains priest collar protocol and then challenges us on what it really means to be virtuous.

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In this conversation starter, Andrew finally musters the courage to defend his wardrobe and thinks aloud about what virtue is and what virtue requires.

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In this united episode, our intrepid foursome discusses themes connecting our previous installments focusing on putting memory into practice. We continue to marvel at the Room of Requirement and (to our executive producers’ chagrin) hear from an old friend of the show. Plus, sponsors!

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In this Conversation Starter, Josh wonders aloud: If you had no time and no outside resources, could you tell a coherent story about things that matters?


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In this conversation starter, Fr. Carr wonders aloud at some of the necessary nutrients for an active memory.

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In this conversation starter, Andrew explains this month's more practical turn, reflects on our general compulsion to record, and suggests the great potential of thoughtful revisiting.

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In this inaugural episode of the Academy podcast reboot, Andrew, Nathan, Eric and Josh, reignite our listeners with that oh so familiar accessible pretension. Our intrepid quartet ties together the past several weeks’ individual podcasts into a coherent narrative about the nature and redemption of memory. And of course, along the way, we offer you, dear tens of listeners, the requisite amount of shenanigans.

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In this Conversation Starter, Josh invites you to consider how you interact with your memories.

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In this Conversation Starter, Fr. Carr continues the conversation on memory by exploring contemplation, enjoyment, and memorial.

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In this Conversation Starter, Andrew welcomes listeners to a new season, explains what's happening to the Podcast this year, and invites you to have a conversation on the ways you regularly access the distant past.

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In this Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects on the sounds of an ongoing school year and asks how the ways we keep time might affect each of us more than we usually stop to consider. 

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In this episode, Andrew speaks with this year's Lyceum Project guest, author and policy analyst Leah Libresco Sargeant. They talk about her conversion from Atheism to Catholicism, about her love of math, about her two books, about feminism, about Congress and the possibilities for a Christian politics, and about how we should all embrace depending on others and on God. 

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The ninth annual Lyceum Project presents a lecture by Leah Libresco Sargeant: "The Demands of Human Dependence."

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February 23, 2024 11 mins

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew reflects a bit on J-Term at Midtown, looks forward to an upcoming Lyceum Conversation, and tries to start a conversation about memory. He explores the role of memory in the life of learning and the life of faith, gestures at the connection between memory and the transformation of the self, and thinks a little bit about the consequences for our own lives of the ancient notion of memory as ...

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December 27, 2023 11 mins

In this Lyceum Conversation Starter, Andrew describes the Academy's annual preparations for a Christmas Feast and some of our thinking about why to celebrate so regularly and so formally. Then, Andrew reveals the three ancient points of connection between Christmas and Happiness, points revealed in the writing of G. K. Chesterton in commendation of another and older English novelist, Charles Dickens. The episode concludes with...

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