{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Reading Jane Austen: A Novel Approach to Virtue","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2468,"description":"Our Summer 2025 series, Beside Still Waters, focuses on the places where creativity brings life into a world fatigued by brokenness and division. From jazz to Jane Austen and in between, this season we’ll focus on the ways literature and the arts can refresh and challenge our inner lives—and connect us with the Creator of the good, the true, and the beautiful.\n\nIn this episode, our focus is Jane Austen, and our guide is Karen Swallow Prior, one of our Trinity Forum Senior Fellows.\n\nKaren explores the faith-informed perspective on virtue that Austen’s novels reflect:\n\n\"Underneath the surface [Austen] is inviting us to look at our own interactions with one another, our own misperceptions, and misreadings, and I think that’s really why her work has remained so endearing to us today; because she reveals the truths of our human condition that never change, and that we’re always wrestling with.\"\n\nJane Austen’s world and concerns seem distant from ours. Yet across the centuries, she illuminates the importance of the seemingly mundane, and the path towards repaired and rightly ordered relationships. \n\nIf this work resonates with you, consider joining the Trinity Forum community as a member, at ttf.org. This episode is drawn from an online conversation held in 2021. You can find the full video of this conversation here. And while you’re here, please subscribe to this podcast.\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nPride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,   by Jane Austen\nAmusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman\nPraying with Jane, by Rachel Dodge  \nAlasdair MacIntyre\nWilliam Shakespeare\nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nPride and Prejudice, a Trinity Forum Reading by Jane Austen\nBulletins from Immortality, a Trinity Forum Reading by Emily Dickinson\nRevelation, a Trinity Forum Reading by Flannery O’Connor \nGod's Grandeur , a Trinity Forum Reading by Gerard Manley Hopkins ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}