What if Lent isn’t about giving something up, but about learning how to sit with what’s already gone? In this episode, Kate talks with poet, priest, and theologian Malcolm Guite about the kind of faith that can hold contradiction—the yes and the no, belief and doubt, beauty and sorrow. Malcolm, a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and author of Sounding the Seasons and Lifting the Veil, reflects on prayer as attention, poetry as a language spacious enough for ambivalence, and why faith might need less forced resolution and more honesty.

SHOW NOTES


Sounding the Seasons by Malcolm Guite


Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite


Seamus Heaney, Station Island


George Herbert, “Prayer”


Gerard Manley Hopkins, the “terrible sonnets” (including “No worst, there is none”) and The Wreck of the Deutschland


T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets


C.S. Lewis, “Blue Spells and Flowered Spheres”


Tour dates & tickets: katebowler.com/joyfulanyway


Watch the live conversation on YouTube


Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: katebowler.substack.com

What if Lent isn&rsquo;t about giving something up, but about learning how to sit with what&rsquo;s already gone? In this episode, Kate talks with poet, priest, and theologian Malcolm Guite about the kind of faith that can hold contradiction&mdash;the yes and the no, belief and doubt, beauty and sorrow. Malcolm, a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and author of Sounding the Seasons and Lifting the Veil, reflects on prayer as attention, poetry as a language spacious enough for ambivalence, and why faith might need less forced resolution and more honesty.
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Sounding the Seasons by Malcolm Guite
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Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite
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Seamus Heaney, Station Island
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George Herbert, &ldquo;Prayer&rdquo;
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, the &ldquo;terrible sonnets&rdquo; (including &ldquo;No worst, there is none&rdquo;) and The Wreck of the Deutschland
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T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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C.S. Lewis, &ldquo;Blue Spells and Flowered Spheres&rdquo;
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Tour dates &amp; tickets:<a href="https://katebowler.com/books/joyfulanyway/">&nbsp;katebowler.com/joyfulanyway</a>
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Watch the live conversation on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@katecbowler">YouTube</a>
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Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent:&nbsp;<a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/">katebowler.substack.com</a>
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Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.

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Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.
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