Old Books with Grace

Listening to the past can help us to understand our present, but it is so difficult to read ancient works of literature and theology alone. I’m Dr. Grace Hamman, a scholar of medieval literature and mother of three. Old Books With Grace shares my love for old books and listens to the wisdom emanating from these long dead voices. My hope is that Old Books With Grace will empower you to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and as a result, ask questions of our current age. We live in a time that values the new and the now more than ever. But I truly believe that these books speak outside of the echo-chambers in which we so often find ourselves and help us to find ageless truth from lost centuries.

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  Literature and Morality with Joshua Hren

  Oct 1, 202652 minS7

  Today's episode features a conversation on the shaping moral power of literature with Joshua Hren, novelist and author of the recent More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature. Joshua Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood Books, and co-founder of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. Joshua's writing has appeared in such journals as The Los Angeles Review of Books and First Things, America and Public Discourse, The Hedgehog Review and Portico. Joshua is the author of ten books, including the novels Infinite Regress and Blue Walls Falling Down as well as Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia's Visionary Poetics and More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature. Find Grace on Instagram @oldbookswithgrace, Substack at gracehamman.substack.com , or reach out via email oldbookswithgrace@gmail.com for requests for endings for this podcast!

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  The Ancient Practice of a Rule of Life with Jen Pollock Michel

  Sep 17, 202649 minS7

  Welcome to the final (for now) season of Old Books with Grace. Today's guest, here to speak on her new book on the ancient practice of making a Rule of Life, drawing from sources like St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Benedict of Nursia, is Jen Pollock Michel. Check out her new "A Rule for the Rest of Us" wherever you get your books. Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of six books: A Rule for the Rest of Us, Teach Us to Want (Christianity Today's Book of the Year), Keeping Place, Surprised by Paradox (Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit—Beautiful Orthodoxy), A Habit Called Faith, and In Good Time (Canada's Word Guild Book of the Year Award). Jen is a sought-after contributor to publications like Christianity Today, The Christian Century, The Gospel Coalition, Mockingbird, and The Dispatch, among others. She is also a first-year mentor in Whitworth University's MFA in Creative Writing program, and she travels to speak at churches, conferences, and retreats. Over the past several years, she has been teaching rule-of-life workshops to hundreds of people across various life stages. The mother of five children, she is married to Ryan, and they live in Cincinnati, Ohio. Support Old Books with Grace . Find Grace online at gracehamman.substack.com , and check out her award-winning book, Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues & Vices for a Whole & Holy Life.

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  Thinking through Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Mischa Willett

  Apr 22, 202659 min

  Today, the poet and professor Mischa Willett joins Grace to discuss the Romantic era of literature and one of its greatest writers in particular: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. For Philip James Bailey's Festus: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-philip-james-bailey-festus.html Mischa Willett is the author of several poetry books, including the forthcoming This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed. He is Director of the Whitworth Writers’ Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His poems, essays, translations, and academic articles appear in a wide range of venues. More information can be found at www.mischawillett.com .

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  Thinking through Samuel Taylor Coleridge with Mischa Willett

  Apr 22, 202659 minS6

  <p>Today, the poet and professor Mischa Willett joins Grace to discuss the Romantic era of literature and one of its greatest writers in particular: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.</p> <p>For Philip James Bailey's Festus: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-philip-james-bailey-festus.html</p> <p>Mischa Willett is the author of several poetry books, including the forthcoming This Gift Card Has Already Been Redeemed. He is Director of the Whitworth Writers’ Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. His poems, essays, translations, and academic articles appear in a wide range of venues. More information can be fo...

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  Episode #10

  Lenten Poetry 2026: Abram Van Engen on George Herbert

  Apr 1, 202645 minS6

  <p>Today is the last installment of this year's Lent series. Grace welcomes Dr. Abram Van Engen to discuss all things George Herbert, much to her delight (a bit of fangirling over Herbert is always in order). They focus on the beautiful, dense, multilayered poem "The Altar."</p> <p>Abram Van Engen is Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, Chair of the English Department, and Professor of Religion and Politics (by courtesy) at Washington University in St. Louis.</p> <p>Van Engen has published widely on religion and literature, focusing especially on seventeenth-century Puritans and the way they have been...

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