“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.” - Wendell Berry
In this, our last episode before the summer break, Phoebe is back to discuss some of our favourite children’s literature. We explore the theme of health and healing, in Goodnight Mr. Tom and The Secret Garden, and how both stories show the importance of nature and community in human flourishing. Looking to the writing of Wendell Berry we discuss how our health, our environment and our society are all interconnected, and how our faith informs how we should cultivate all three of those strands of life.
Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod
Hosts: Rachel Sherlock, Phoebe Watson
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Works mentioned:
Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
‘Health is Membership’ by Wendell Berry
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
What we’re enjoying at the moment:
Phoebe: The appendices discs to The Lord of the Rings extended edition
Rachel: Sam Amidon (musician)
