{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Story, Culture, & the Common Good with Marilynne Robinson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2267,"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’re focusing 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\nToday’s episode concludes our summer series. Our guide today is the acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson, author of the Gilead series, and much else. \n\nIn this episode, originally an Online Conversation recorded in 2020, Marilynne reflects on the art of writing as a means of exploring truth and engaging questions around learning to live well, to love others, and to create a home and community, in our fractious world:\n\n“The unique brilliance of a human being … is something that we tend utterly to disparage, demean, utterly fail to notice … every person lives out a [life] beautiful, complicated, inaccessible to other consciousnesses. And it is sacred.”\n\nAnd if this conversation resonates with you, consider joining the Trinity Forum community as a member, at ttf.org. You can find the full video of this conversation there too.\nMarilynne Robinson's Novels | Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila, Jack, Reading Genesis\nArticle in Breaking Ground from our event.\n\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nMarcel Proust\nRalph Waldo Emmerson\nPaul Harding\nWalt Witman\nWilliam Faulkner\nJohn Calvin\nJonathan Edwards\nMoby Dick, by Herman Mellville\nPiers Plowman, by William Langland\n\nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nSacred and Profane Love | A Trinity Forum Reading by John Donne\n \nBulletins from Immortality | A Trinity Forum Reading by Emily Dickinson\n \nConfessions | A Trinity Forum Reading by Saint Augustine\n \nBrave New World | A Trinity Forum Reading by Aldous Huxley\n \nMarilynne Robinson is a novelist, essayist, and teacher, one of the most renowned and revered of living writers. Her novels Housekeeping, Gilead, Lila,...","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}