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One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Maundy Thursday Holy Week: Maundy Thursday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Holy-Week-Maundy-Thursday.mp3 John 13:3-5,34 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself. “I gi...

2026-04-0219 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Holy Week: Maundy Thursday Holy Week: Maundy Thursday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Holy-Week-Maundy-Thursday.mp3 John 13:3-5,34 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself. “I gi...

2026-04-0219 min $The Hacker\'s Cache$

The Hacker's Cache #43 Grind Now, Relax Later: The Harsh Reality of Breaking Into Cybersecurity ft. Matthew Younker (Zumi Yumi)In this episode of The Hacker’s Cache, Matthew Younker (aka Zumi Yumi) shares the raw truth about what it really took to break into offensive security, working full time, going to college, and grinding for OSCP with almost zero rest. He opens up about the unhealthy sacrifices he made, why OSWA was harder than OSCP, and how his journey from Army hazmat to pentester shaped the way he works today. If you’ve ever wondered what the grind really looks like behind the certifications and titles, this one hits close to home. Connect with Matthew Younker (Zumi...

2025-04-2334 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark A Tale of Two Trees: Steven Elmore, "Sustained by Joy" A Tale of Two Trees: Steven Elmore, "Sustained by Joy" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OTW_S5-E10-SElmores-essay.mp3 Steven Elmore is the President of the C.S. Lewis Foundation. He has over 20 years of experience working at nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, including serving as a community college adjunct professor (English composition), software instructor (basic to advanced MS Office), GED instructor (science, history), test preparation tutor, and in a wide range of office management and administration roles. His specific skill sets include event management, teaching...

2023-07-2016 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way A Tale of Two Trees: Steven Elmore, "Sustained by Joy" A Tale of Two Trees: Steven Elmore, "Sustained by Joy" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/OTW_S5-E10-SElmores-essay.mp3 Steven Elmore is the President of the C.S. Lewis Foundation. He has over 20 years of experience working at nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, including serving as a community college adjunct professor (English composition), software instructor (basic to advanced MS Office), GED instructor (science, history), test preparation tutor, and in a wide range of office management and administration roles. His specific skill sets include event management, teaching...

2023-07-2016 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Only the Lover Sings: Matthew Clark, "The Way Home" The Way Home by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OTW_S4-E14-OTLS_Matthew-Clark.mp3 The Heart of Our God Matthew Clark Now I know that it’s hard to talk about I know guilt and shame and sin And punishment and wrath are awkward at best And at worst unmentionable things But we can’t just pretend like we all are ok Like what’s under the rug doesn’t haunt us ...

2022-06-2716 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Only the Lover Sings: Matthew Clark, "The Way Home" The Way Home by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/OTW_S4-E14-OTLS_Matthew-Clark.mp3 The Heart of Our God Matthew Clark Now I know that it’s hard to talk about I know guilt and shame and sin And punishment and wrath are awkward at best And at worst unmentionable things But we can’t just pretend like we all are ok Like what’s under the rug doesn’t haunt us ...

2022-06-2716 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Only the Lover Sings, Matthew Clark - I want to see what she saw I want to see what she saw by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OTW_S4-E8-OTLS_Matthew-Intro.mp3 "Only the Lover Sings" book & album are available now! Click Here to buy the book on Amazon! What exactly did she see that day on the face of our tired, thirsty Lord? Because, God knows, all of us long all our lives to see it ourselves, searching for it in every face we meet. Notably, we’re not given a description of what the woman at the we...

2022-05-1714 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Only the Lover Sings, Matthew Clark - I want to see what she saw I want to see what she saw by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/OTW_S4-E8-OTLS_Matthew-Intro.mp3 "Only the Lover Sings" book & album are available now! Click Here to buy the book on Amazon! What exactly did she see that day on the face of our tired, thirsty Lord? Because, God knows, all of us long all our lives to see it ourselves, searching for it in every face we meet. Notably, we’re not given a description of what the woman at the we...

2022-05-1714 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Your Place in the Story, Pt. 4 - Virtues: The Heartbeat of Reality Your Place in the Story, Pt. 4 - Virtues: The Heartbeat of Reality by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/OTW_S3-E26-Your-place-in-the-story-pt.-4_Virtues_the-heartbead-of-reality.mp3 For the last several weeks I’ve been reading a book by Stanley Hauerwas called “The Character of Virtue, Letters to a Godson”. I’d heard of the author here and there over the years, and I’ve even had another unread book of his on my shelf for more than a decade. I’m glad to finally be reading Hauerwas, and...

2021-06-2117 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Your Place in the Story, Pt. 4 - Virtues: The Heartbeat of Reality Your Place in the Story, Pt. 4 - Virtues: The Heartbeat of Reality by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/OTW_S3-E26-Your-place-in-the-story-pt.-4_Virtues_the-heartbead-of-reality.mp3 For the last several weeks I’ve been reading a book by Stanley Hauerwas called “The Character of Virtue, Letters to a Godson”. I’d heard of the author here and there over the years, and I’ve even had another unread book of his on my shelf for more than a decade. I’m glad to finally be reading Hauerwas, and...

2021-06-2117 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Your Place in the Story, Pt. 3 - Here's the Script; Have Fun! Your Place in the Story, Pt. 3 - Here's the Script; Have Fun! by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/OTW_S3-E25-Heres-the-Script-Have-Fun.mp3 We live in a world that has lost its story. We’ve been trained since the Enlightenment Movement beginning in the 1700s to see the world as merely material without any real participation in a transcendent reality (namely, the Life of the Trinity). God was thrown out, and the world was seen as having no embedded meaning from its Creator. In Ep...

2021-06-0816 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Your Place in the Story, Pt. 3 - Here's the Script; Have Fun! Your Place in the Story, Pt. 3 - Here's the Script; Have Fun! by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/OTW_S3-E25-Heres-the-Script-Have-Fun.mp3 We live in a world that has lost its story. We’ve been trained since the Enlightenment Movement beginning in the 1700s to see the world as merely material without any real participation in a transcendent reality (namely, the Life of the Trinity). God was thrown out, and the world was seen as having no embedded meaning from its Creator. In Ep...

2021-06-0816 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Your Place in the Story, Pt. 2 - A Beautiful New Name Your Place in the Story, Pt. 2 - A Beautiful New Name by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OTW_S3-E24-Your-Place-in-the-Story-A-Beautiful-New-Name.mp3 Last week, I talked about how everybody does liturgies – in and outside the church. If we think broadly of a liturgy as any shared practice or discipline that situates us within a particular narrative, a narrative that gives our life context and meaning. Liturgies provide language, images, events, and storyline. They work that stuff down into our bones, until whatever story we’re practicing becom...

2021-05-2418 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Your Place in the Story, Pt. 2 - A Beautiful New Name Your Place in the Story, Pt. 2 - A Beautiful New Name by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OTW_S3-E24-Your-Place-in-the-Story-A-Beautiful-New-Name.mp3 Last week, I talked about how everybody does liturgies – in and outside the church. If we think broadly of a liturgy as any shared practice or discipline that situates us within a particular narrative, a narrative that gives our life context and meaning. Liturgies provide language, images, events, and storyline. They work that stuff down into our bones, until whatever story we’re practicing becom...

2021-05-2418 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Your Place in the Story, Pt. 1 - *or Anybody Want a Peanut? Your Place in the Story, Pt. 1 - *or Anybody Want a Peanut? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OTW_S3-E23-Anybody-want-a-peanut.mp3 Can you finish this movie quote for me? If I say, “Stop rhyming, I mean it!” What do you say? “Anybody want a peanut?” Or how about this one: If I say, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.” And you say, “You killed my father. Prepare to die.” If you knew what to say...

2021-05-1716 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Your Place in the Story, Pt. 1 - *or Anybody Want a Peanut? Your Place in the Story, Pt. 1 - *or Anybody Want a Peanut? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OTW_S3-E23-Anybody-want-a-peanut.mp3 Can you finish this movie quote for me? If I say, “Stop rhyming, I mean it!” What do you say? “Anybody want a peanut?” Or how about this one: If I say, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.” And you say, “You killed my father. Prepare to die.” If you knew what to say...

2021-05-1716 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark God's Friends Getting Stuff Done God's Friends Getting Stuff Done by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/OTW_S3-E21-Gods-Friends-Getting-Stuff-Done.mp3 Did I ever tell you about the time I was stranded in the middle of Kansas with two flat tires? If I have, it’s a story worth retelling. It was in the middle of my yearly Fall House Concert tour, and I had enjoyed several days with friends in the Kansas City area, sharing songs and stories. Now, I was headed across the pancake plains of Kansas toward Denver to...

2021-04-2716 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way God's Friends Getting Stuff Done God's Friends Getting Stuff Done by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/OTW_S3-E21-Gods-Friends-Getting-Stuff-Done.mp3 Did I ever tell you about the time I was stranded in the middle of Kansas with two flat tires? If I have, it’s a story worth retelling. It was in the middle of my yearly Fall House Concert tour, and I had enjoyed several days with friends in the Kansas City area, sharing songs and stories. Now, I was headed across the pancake plains of Kansas toward Denver to...

2021-04-2716 min

Podcast Archives - Matthew Clark Dear Friend, A Letter Dear Friend, A Letter by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/OTW_S3-E20-Dear-Friend-A-Letter.mp3 Dear Friend, I’m writing this to you from the blue chair by the bookcase in my room in Mississippi. I can hear the soft hush of the A/C unit and it’s reminding me to breathe in and breath out. The last time I heard from you, you mentioned that you were having such a hard time sleeping a lot of nights lately. Everybody’s mind is raci...

2021-04-1315 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Dear Friend, A Letter Dear Friend, A Letter by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/OTW_S3-E20-Dear-Friend-A-Letter.mp3 Dear Friend, I’m writing this to you from the blue chair by the bookcase in my room in Mississippi. I can hear the soft hush of the A/C unit and it’s reminding me to breathe in and breath out. The last time I heard from you, you mentioned that you were having such a hard time sleeping a lot of nights lately. Everybody’s mind is raci...

2021-04-1315 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Easter: Secret Strength and Deeper Magic Easter: Secret Strength & Deeper Magic by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E22-Easter-Secret-Strength-Deeper-Magic.mp3 The following is a version edited for length of the full length article, “Easter in the Liturgical Year” by the late Fr. Alexander Schmemann. In the center of our liturgical life, in the very center of that time which we measure as year, we find the feast of Christ’s Resurrection. What is Resurrection? Resurrection is the appearance in this world, completely dominated by time a...

2021-04-0519 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Easter Sunday Holy Week: Easter Sunday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E21-Holy-Week-Easter-Sunday.mp3 John 20:11-18 But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting where Jesus’ body had been lying, one at the head and one at the feet. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied, “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have...

2021-04-0419 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Saturday, The Gift of the Quiet In-Between Holy Week: Saturday, The gift of the quiet in-between by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E20-Holy-Week-Saturday-The-gift-of-the-quiet-in-between.mp3 Today is a strange day, isn’t it? What do we do with today? It’s this empty, weird time just sort of suspended between Jesus’s death and his resurrection. Do we ignore it? Does it matter? Jesus could have risen the very next morning. I don’t think he waited just to prove he was really dead, the Roman authorities confirmed that by jabbing a...

2021-04-0314 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Good Friday Holy Week: Good Friday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E19-Good-Friday.mp3 Today is Crucifixion Day, Good Friday. Today we can’t pretend anymore that everything will be okay, we can’t be idealists and act like people will simply improve. While being led to Golgotha, Jesus remarks, “If this is what they do to the tree when it’s green, how much worse will it be when it’s dry?” Luke 23:31. And Muggeridge says, “Jesus was not in our contemporary sense, an idealist, and...

2021-04-0221 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Maundy Thursday Holy Week: Maundy Thursday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E18-Holy-Week-Maundy-Thursday.mp3 John 13:3-5,34 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wra...

2021-04-0119 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Wednesday, Mary Does a Beautiful Thing Holy Week: Wednesday, Mary does a beautiful thing by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E17-Holy-Week-Wednesday-Mary-does-a-beautiful-thing.mp3 Mark 14:3-11 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head. But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment? It could have been so...

2021-03-3117 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Tuesday, Remembering Abraham Holy Week: Tuesday, Remembering Abraham by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E16-Holy-Week-Tuesday-Remembering-Abraham.mp3 Genesis 22: 1-18 [God] said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied. God said, “Take your son—your only son, whom you love, Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.” Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servan...

2021-03-3022 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Monday, Cleansing the Temple Holy Week: Monday, Cleansing the Temple by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E15-Holy-Week_Monday-Cleansing-the-Temple.mp3 Luke 19:45-48 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling things there, saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be a house of prayer,’ but you have turned it into a den of robbers!” Jesus was teaching daily in the temple courts. The chief priests and the experts in the law and the promi...

2021-03-2916 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Palm Sunday Holy Week: Palm Sunday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E14_Holy-Week-Palm-Sunday.mp3 Luke 9:51 Now when the days drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus set out resolutely to go to Jerusalem. Luke 19:35-44 … And throwing their garments on the colt they set Jesus upon it. And as he rode along, they spread their garments on the road. As he was now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the wh...

2021-03-2916 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Old Family Recipes Old Family Recipes by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OTW_S3-E10-Old-Family-Recipes.mp3 Doctrine is a word that’s likely to scare folks off, isn’t it? But it just means right teaching. For instance, if we’re sitting around the Thanksgiving table and mom brings out Great Grandmother’s sweet potato casserole, we’re all very glad that the recipe has been kept safe over the years. We want the right recipe, because we want that casserole to taste the way it’s supposed to taste. That...

2021-03-2217 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Man or Machine? (Or How to Relax a Little) Man or Machine? (Or How to Relax a Little) by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OTW_S3-E9-Man-or-Machine-or-How-to-Relax-a-Little.mp3 Occasionally you’ll hear a quote that sticks in your mind and you don’t even know why at the time. One such quote for me that I’m thinking of now was something I heard Eugene Peterson say in an interview on Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 75. He said, “I’m on a campaign right now to eliminate the word dysfunctional from the church’s life. Because peop...

2021-03-1515 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Redecorating the Imagination with Hope Redecorating the Imagination with Hope by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OTW_S3-E8-Redecorating-the-Imagination-with-Hope.mp3 There is a picture hanging on a certain wall in my house. It’s framed nicely and hung in a prominent place. It’s actually a fairly large photograph and it’s of a certain family I know, Steve and Terri Moon and their dog Chester. In the picture, I’m sitting with them on the bright red bench in the backyard by the woodpile under a tree. The sun is bright o...

2021-03-0120 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way None of my business New Single "Take me with you" releases Friday, Feb 26th! Click here to Pre-save the song. “Take me with you” is a cover song that my friend Abbye West Pates wrote. Find Abbye at her website www.abbyewestpates.com and on follow her on Spotify here. None of my business by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OTW_S3-E7-None-of-my-business.mp3 Maybe there’s some irony in the fact that I read the book of Job during the last couple months of 2020? For many much...

2021-02-2219 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Poetry and Impossible Possibilities Poetry and Impossible Possibilities by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OTW_S3-E5-Poetry-and-Impossible-Possibilities.mp3 I grew up in church. I grew up hearing the stories and the language of the Christian tradition, of Scripture, and I sang all the songs. And for that I am deeply grateful. I wouldn’t trade it for a more dramatic testimony. Still, there is an effect that happens to people like me as well as folks who may have met Jesus later on in life through dramatic means. That is, we be...

2021-02-0820 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Song and Story: Gone Too Long Song and Story: Gone Too Long by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/OTW_S3-E4-Song-and-Story-Gone-Too-Long.mp3 Follow Matthew Clark on Spotify Last Friday, I released a new song called “Gone too long”. And I want to talk a little bit about it this week. This can be a sort of story-behind-the-song episode. But as much as this song talks about specific instances of missing places, people, and closeness with the Lord, it has also come to be about a vague sense of distance and yearning that I don’...

2021-02-0117 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Open the Windows, Let In Some Air Pre-save my new single "Gone Too Long" on Spotify, releasing this Friday, 1-29-21I’ll be releasing a new song every month, so be sure to click the “Follow” button on Spotify, so you don’t miss anything! Click Here to Pre-Save "Gone Too Long" Open the Windows, Let In Some Air by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OTW_S3-E3-Open-the-Windows-Let-In-Some-Air2.mp3 It’s been quite gray and overcast the last few days; the clouds have brought the limits of the sky closer to t...

2021-01-2516 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way MLK Day: How to make an apple pie MLK Day: How to make an apple pie by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OTW_S3-E2-MLK-Day-How-to-make-an-apple-pie.mp3 I remember being a little kid and my Mom would occasionally make apple pies. Nobody makes a better pie crust that my mom, in my opinion, and when she made apple pie she’d weave strips of pastry in a lattice laid over the sugared apple filling to make a pie that was both delicious and beautiful. As much as I love her pastry, what makes an appl...

2021-01-1819 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way A Brawl in the Jazz Club A Brawl in the Jazz Club by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OTW_S3-E1-A-Brawl-in-the-Jazz-Club.mp3 Everyone has their little pet peeves, which tend to speed to the forefront of the mind when we’re in a living situation with someone who does things very differently than we do. Or to put it positively, we all have fascinating particularities that we may not even be aware of until they’re thrown into contrast by a spouse, roommate or sibling who doesn’t share our idiosyncrasy. I had a ment...

2021-01-1216 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Season 2 Finale, "The Radiant" Season 2 Finale, "The Radiant" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OTW_S2-E31-Season-2-Finale-22The-Radiant22.mp3 Dear Friend, This is the Season 2 Finale, but I plan to be back with Season 3 January 2020. In the meantime, I’m writing on a new collection of original songs for an album I plan to record soon, and I want to keep you in the loop! So, to help keep in touch, please… 1. Sign up for my Mailing List 2. Follow me on Instagram (@matthewclarknet) 3...

2020-06-3020 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The bluebird, the landslide, and a Fool's hope The Bluebird, the Landslide, and a Fool's Hope by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OTW_S2-E29-The-Bluebird-The-landslide-and-a-Fools-Hope.mp3 When I first moved to this house nearly six years ago, I was grieving a great loss. Sometimes death seeps in through the cracks of our house like a vapor, other times death batters the door down and rushes in. At best, death comes as a humbled servant to those who wait in the hope Christ won for us; they are able to see it as a vital sign...

2020-06-1516 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Storytime: Of Wolves and Piggies Storytime: Of Wolves and Piggies by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OTW_S2-E28-Storytime-Of-Wolves-and-Piggies.mp3 Once upon a time there were three little pigs. They decided they wanted to build a warm, dry home where they could live safely. They were rightly concerned about safety because there was a big, bad wolf who prowled around in the woods where they lived. He would blow down people’s houses. That was what he thought of as a good time. But what he liked best of all was to ea...

2020-06-0815 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Good enough is more than enough Good enough is more than enough by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/OTW_S2-E27-Good-enough-is-more-than-enough.mp3 Here is my heart take what you want Cause I have no use for it anyway Well of all the stupid things I’ve ever said This could be the worst may be the best But those are the breaks These are the bruises And if I can’t give myself away I’m the only on...

2020-05-2516 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way He has become my salvation He has become my salvation by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/OTW_S2-E26-He-has-become-my-salvation.mp3 My friend Max and I were talking last week about calling and ministry and what practical steps to take if, in his case, he were to pursue music. I kept finding myself veering away from the mechanics of the question and steering toward heart matters. Maybe that’s because I’m not the most pragmatically-minded person on the planet, I’m more of an intuitive, play-it-by-ear person? I do believe very mu...

2020-05-1815 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The yoke of glorious engagement The yoke of glorious engagement by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/OTW_S2-E25-The-yoke-of-glorious-engagement.mp3 Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the arena” speech, in part, goes like this, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who...

2020-05-0418 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way You become like what you worship You become like what you worship by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E24-You-are-what-you-worship.mp3 This morning I was reading Psalm 135, and in the last third of the psalm this motif shows up that I’ve noticed shows up all over the Scripture – it’s this “you become like what you worship” thing. In the psalm it goes like this: The idols of the nations are silver and gold, Made by human hands. They have mouths but cann...

2020-04-2817 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Live Song & Story - "Meet Me Here" Song & Story - "Meet Me Here" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E23-Song-Story-Meet-Me-Here.mp3 Join me at youtube.com/matthewclarknet tonight, 7pm Central for the video premier of “Meet Me here” Live Song & Story. Meet Me Here by Matthew Clark Have you heard the bombs explode and found no hole to hide in Wars and rum

2020-04-2015 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Easter: Secret Strength & Deeper Magic Easter: Secret Strength & Deeper Magic by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E22-Easter-Secret-Strength-Deeper-Magic.mp3 ,The following is a version edited for length of the full length article, “Easter in the Liturgical Year” by the late Fr. Alexander Schmemann. In the center of our liturgical life, in the very center of that time which we measure as year, we find the feast of Christ’s Resurrection. What is Resurrection? Resurrection is the appearance in this world, completely dominated by time a...

2020-04-1419 min

2020-04-1319 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Saturday, The gift of the quiet in-between Holy Week: Saturday, The gift of the quiet in-between by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E20-Holy-Week-Saturday-The-gift-of-the-quiet-in-between.mp3 Today is a strange day, isn’t it? What do we do with today? It’s this empty, weird time just sort of suspended between Jesus’s death and his resurrection. Do we ignore it? Does it matter? Jesus could have risen the very next morning. I don’t think he waited just to prove he was really dead, the Roman authorities confirmed that by jabbing a...

2020-04-1214 min

2020-04-1121 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Maundy Thursday Holy Week: Maundy Thursday by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E18-Holy-Week-Maundy-Thursday.mp3 John 13:3-5,34 Because Jesus knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 he got up from the meal, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and tied it around himself. 5 He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel he had wra...

2020-04-1019 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Holy Week: Wednesday, Mary does a beautiful thing Holy Week: Wednesday, Mary does a beautiful thing by Matthew Clark & Friends | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/OTW_S2-E17-Holy-Week-Wednesday-Mary-does-a-beautiful-thing.mp3 Mark 14:3-11 Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head. But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment? It could have been so...

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Whatever is Lovely Whatever is Lovely by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OTW_S2-E13-Whatever-is-Lovely.mp3 Brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Phil. 4:8 I don’t know exactly why, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my Grandmother Mal. She died nearly five years ago on Thanksgiving Day less than a month shy of her 104th birthday. She was a charact...

2020-03-3117 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Need is a Gift Need is a gift by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OTW_S2-E11-Need-is-a-gift.mp3 The first three months of 2018 were dark for me. For the last several years, I’ve lived with my brother Sam. Before that, I’d always had some kind of living situation with other people. Now, I was returning after making my home on the road touring for the last four months; I was saying hello to the familiar little things around the house. But this time something was different; I was the only...

2020-03-1616 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Being a Beginner Again Being a beginner again by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/OTW_S2-E10-Being-a-beginner-again.mp3 The old man furrows his brow and says nothing. He’s trying to get to some thought that’s out of reach. No amount of education or professional experience has prepared him for this, and Nicodemus, normally a fluent and wise teacher anytime he’s ever been asked a question, is struck dumb. Childlike utterances are the best he can do. “But how?” he asks Jesus. “ Born again? What are you talking about?” Recently...

2020-03-0914 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Story and Song - "Kumalo" Live Story & Song - "Kumalo" Live by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OTW_S2-E8-Song-Story-Kumalo-Live2.mp3 The post S2:E8 – Story and Song – “Kumalo” Live appeared first on Matthew Clark.

2020-02-2415 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Get back on the road Get back on the road by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OTW_S2-E7-Get-back-on-the-road.mp3 British journalist Malcolm Muggeridge once said that, “The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” Put that quote in your back pocket for the next time you need to break the ice in a sluggish conversation, or if you’re stuck with a chatterbox and you want to pump the brakes, or maybe you could add it to your r...

2020-02-1715 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The Daffodils The Daffodils by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/OTW_S2-E5-The-Daffodils.mp3 My father taught me to look for daffodils. He said that if you see them in bunches somewhere out in the country it’s a sign that there used to be a homeplace there. Out at the farm last week, I was reminded of it when I saw clusters of slender green leaves standing straight up out of the winter ground topped with bright yellow trumpet-like blossoms around the old Kennedy house. That house is...

2020-02-0416 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Actual or Simulated Atonement? Actual or Simulated Atonement? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OTW_S2-E4-Actual-or-Simulated-Atonement.mp3 Well, Jacob he loved Rachel, and Rachel she loved him And Leah was just there for dramatic effect. Well it’s right there in the bible so it must not be a sin But it sure does seem like an awful dirty trick. (Jacob and 2 women, by Rich Mullins) I remember listening to that Rich Mullins’ song and being conf...

2020-01-2717 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way You belong in this Story You belong in this Story by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OTW_S2-E3-You-belong-in-this-Story.mp3 G.K. Chesterton said, “I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.” Have you noticed how “Story” has become such a buzzword in the last several years? Why do we hunger and thirst for movies, streaming shows, podcasts and social media? One reason may be because we’re trying to recover that feeling that our lives are...

2020-01-2015 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Anxiety and Sharing in Christ's Sufferings Anxiety and Sharing in Christ's Sufferings by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OTW_S2-E2-Anxiety-and-sharing-in-Christs-Afflictions.mp3 I was encouraged to read a C.S. Lewis quote last week that, Dan, a friend from church posted. Lewis says, that, “Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don’t agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ.” I’ll start...

2020-01-1514 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Good Words Good Words by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/OTW_S2-E1-Good-Words.mp3 I recently enjoyed reading Michael Ward’s essay, ‘Imagine There’s No Heaven? C.S. Lewis on Making Space for Faith’ in a book of collected essays called The Story of the Cosmos: How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God while at my friend’s the Clarkson‘s house. Ward said when we lose good language we say more and more about less and less. In the last paragraph of the essay he points ou...

2020-01-0615 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 15. Alix Walker, Thomas Dakin GinHello and welcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Alix Walker, the Global Ambassador for Thomas Dakin gin and all-round expert on everything gin! Thomas Dakin Gin is a modern gin with an old-fashioned twist, created to reflect the long and storied history of Manchester gin grandee Thomas Dakin. Deeply rooted in Manchester, we talk to Alix about the connection with the city and the history of this small batch gin of unmistakable character.

2020-01-0329 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Being Beautifully Unuseful to God Being 'Beautifully Unuseful to God' by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OTW_S1-E23-Being-Beautfully-Unuseful-to-God.mp3 Josef Pieper says in one of my favorite little books that “…music, the fine arts, poetry – anything that festively raises up human existence and thereby constitutes its true riches – all derive their life from a hidden root, and this root is contemplation which is turned toward God and the world so as to affirm them.” The last few days my brother and I have been having a conversation about the re...

2019-07-2219 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Making Envy Scarce Making Envy Scarce by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OTW_S1-E22-Making-Envy-Scarce.mp3 I’d like to make a confession. Over the last several years I’ve come to realize what a strong impulse envy is within my heart. Time and time again I have discovered in myself an inability to celebrate some good or benefit I see another person enjoying. Often that leads to a feeling of bitterness. I think though that the bitterness is really a manifestation of fear – fear of not having what I need...

2019-07-1518 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way What is a house concert for? What is a house concert for? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/OTW_S1-E21-What-is-a-house-concert-for.mp3 Habitat is important, isn’t it? There are certain conditions that make for flourishing; not just any old circumstance will do. For me, there’s a big difference between how I feel on a sunny day and how I feel at the end of a string of cold, rainy days. People exist in a fabric of interrelatedness, and usually we don’t even notice it – until something starts to wear...

2019-07-1017 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way At The Table With Friends At The Table With Friends by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OTW_S1-E20-At-the-table-with-friends.mp3 “In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out,” Lewis says in The Four Loves. He’s talking about how, now that their friend Charles Williams has died, there is some aspect of Tolkien that doesn’t show up anymore. It’s been my experience that certain friendships waken different parts of me, parts that I may not even know are there, but in that person...

2019-05-2017 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Connecting Flights Connecting Flights by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/OTW_S1-E19_Connecting_Flights.mp3 From a few thousand feet in the air I saw an arc of lightning skitter across the dark sky and curl back around on itself like a white hot heavenly tendril. Looking out the airplane window I couldn’t help but exclaim aloud. “Wow!” I said, and felt a little embarrassed at my involuntary shout. A kind older couple sat scrunched next to me in the economy seats on the way from Denver to Housto...

2019-05-1414 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The Costly Craft of Paying Attention, Pt. 2 The Costly Craft of Paying Attention, Pt. 2 by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OTW_S1-E18-CS16_Matthew_Clark_Part_2.mp3 Unfortunately, there’s no text for this week’s podcast! This was a talk I gave back in 2016, and I have no idea where the notes are anymore. :) The post S1:E18 – The Costly Craft of Paying Attention, Pt. 2 appeared first on Matthew Clark.

2019-05-0626 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The Costly Craft of Paying Attention, Pt. 1 The Costly Craft Of Paying Attention, Pt. 1 by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OTW_S1-E17-CS16_Matthew_Clark_Part_1.mp3 This talk was originally given at Cofferstowe 2016. Unfortunately, I don’t have the text to this one! The post

2019-04-2926 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The Conquering Power of Mercy The Conquering Power of Mercy by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OTW_S1-E16-The-conquering-power-of-mercy.mp3 “Shall I kill them?” says Israel’s king to the prophet Elisha in 2nd Kings chapter 6. Elisha the prophet had been Elijah’s servant, and when Elijah was taken up in a chariot of fire, Elisha had inherited his mantle. The Hebrew culture was set up with three primary offices: prophet, priest, and king. And the king answers to the prophet. David was a king and a prophet, but even he answer...

2019-04-2218 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Quieting The Magic Words - Listening For The Tune Quieting Magic Words, Listening for the Tune by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OTW_S1-E15-Quieting-Magic-Words-Listening-for-the-Tune.mp3 “It’s not magic words,” he said. “It’s not a phrase that you say at the end of your prayer that somehow gives the prayer power or makes God do something.” “Right,” I said, “that’s why you’ve got the first commandment: no other gods, and then a whole separate second commandment against idolatry.” “Yes, idolatry is about procedures, special word...

2019-04-0816 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Listen to the Birdsong Listen to the Birdsong by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/OTW_S1-E14-Listen-to-the-Birdsong.mp3 Listen to the birdsong, There’s still something clear and clean Breathe in the bright air, All is not lost it seems I still wake up every morning, Cause an innocent man died And I pray to know that innocence again To come clean, come clean, come clean That’s the f...

2019-04-0214 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Joyful obedience? What am I missing? Joyful Obedience? What am I missing? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/OTW_S1-E11-Joyful-Obedience-What-am-I-missing.mp3 “I’m taking a coffee break. You want me to make you some?” my brother Sam asked. “Definitely,” I replied. Today is a three-cup day. We sat at the round mahogany table that my granddad made. This is where Sam and I sit for our two o’clock coffee break most days. We both work from home, and we stop here for meals and conversation. We check in: “W...

2019-03-1314 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way A Smoldering Wick A Smoldering Wick by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/OTW_S1-E10-A-Smouldering-Wick.mp3 Today I don’t want to write anything. I’ve started several documents, gotten a few paragraphs in and deleted them. The more I try to write the more tired I feel, like every word is burden. Someone said, “one of the hardest things to do is say just to what you mean.” Maybe all art is just trying to close the gap between what we want to say and what...

2019-03-0512 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Etymology Episode: "diabolical" Etymology Episode: "diabolical" by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/OTW_S1-E9-Etymology-Episode-Diabolical.mp3 Recently, a friend asked me when I first fell in love with words. I remember exactly when. It was sixth grade in Mrs. Sinclair’s class. She had a tradition that changed my life. Each week she’d put a really big vocabulary word on the chalkboard. I remember one week the word was “ostentatious”. The assignment was to write a short story featuring that week’s word – and here’s the br...

2019-02-2616 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way What IS a Cofferstowe anyway? What IS a Cofferstowe anyway? by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/OTW_S1-E8-What-IS-a-Cofferstowe-anyway.mp3 One of my favorite stories about two of my favorite authors, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, tells how they both found themselves frustrated at the difficulty of finding the kinds of books they liked to read best. After commiserating a bit, they decided that if no one would write these books for them, they’d just write those books themselves! I loved heari...

2019-02-1916 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way An Abandoned Piano An Abandoned Piano by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/OTW_S1-E6-An-Abandoned-Piano.mp3 A day of flying and finally I landed in San Antonio, where the hotel shuttle picked me up and drove me to the hotel. Tomorrow I’ll meet up with Lancia and Diana and we’ll drive out to Laity Lodge to see Bruce Herman, Malcolm Guite and JAC Redford’s Ordinary Saints exhibit. It’s a collaborative effort between painter, poet and composer calling us to face the ordin...

2019-02-0415 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way The Shy Deer and The Fence The Shy Deer and The Fence by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OTW_S1-E5-The-Shy-Deer-and-The-Fence.mp3 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young deer. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice. Song of Songs, 2:9 Straight out in front of me this very moment is a gray cedar plank fence visible through the window. This is...

2019-01-2814 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Come Thou Fount Come Thou Fount by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OTW_S1-E2-Come-Thou-Fount.mp3 One night a few years back I was lying in bed unable to sleep. Since I’m so incredibly pious and I only ever think about holy things when I can’t sleep, I found myself rehearsing the words to the old hymn “Come Thou Fount”. Suddenly, even though I’ve been singing this song since I was a little kid in church, I paid attention to the meaning of the words, maybe for the fi...

2019-01-1518 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Fifty-Four Frogs Fifty-Four Frogs by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OTW_S1-E2-Fifty-Four-Frogs.mp3 Fifty-four frogs. I counted fifty-four pinky-nail-sized frogs on a single walk one day in a patch of woods near where I live. It began with catching some hardly noticeable movement in my peripheral vision – some strange small shift on the ground among the scattered pine needles, oak leaves, and gravel. I walked on slowly, winding my way among the trees, until I identified the little creatures. After seeing six or seven of them, I decided, “I’d b...

2019-01-0716 min

One Thousand Words - Stories On The Way Stories On The Way Stories On The Way by Matthew Clark | One Thousand Words https://www.matthewclark.net/mcwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OTW_S1-E1-Stories-On-The-Way.mp3 One of the very best things I’ve read in the past few years is a little seventy-five page book called “Only the Lover Sings” by Josef Pieper. My friend Joy Clarkson recommended it to me, and I have read and re-read it many times since. The conversation from this little favorite is all about finding ways to “keep the feast in faith” in the midst of a whole world of ways we...

2018-12-3115 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 14. Alejandro Van Lieshout, Casa RojoHello and welcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Alejandro Van Lieshout, ‎Export Manager at ‎Casa Rojo. Casa Rojo is a team of people with varied backgrounds and specialties that have come together to create nine wines in nine denominations of origin of Spain, each produced in their own style.

2018-05-1818 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 13. Davide Champion, Sella & MoscaHello and welcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Davide Champion, Sales Manager at Sella & Mosca winery, based in Sardinia the team at Sella and Mosca produce wines with an unmistakable personality and have done for over a century. Sella & Mosca is known as Sardinia's leading wine producer. It is renowned for premium wines made exclusively from estate-grown grapes of native varieties such as Vermentino, Torbato and Cannonau. Alongside protecting these indigenous varieties the winery has successfully pioneered the introduction of international grape varieties such as Ca...

2018-04-3024 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 12. James Downes, Shannon VineyardsWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to James Downes, owner and vineyard manager at Shannon Vineyards, situated in the beautiful Elgin Valley. Shannon Vineyards is situated in the Elgin Valley within the Kogelberg Biosphere with mountains on our western boundary and the Peninsula Dam forming the eastern boundary. The Elgin Valley which has long been regarded as the apple and pear centre of South Africa, now has some of the country's most highly regarded winemakers establishing vineyards in the area, testament to its obvious winemaking potential.

2018-04-2319 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 11. Gerhard Swart, FlagstoneWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Gerhard Swart at South Africa's Flagstone winery. The Flagstone philosophy is that ‘Wine should do a small, simple thing: it should add joy to life'. Formerly headed by influential winemaker Bruce Jack, today Gerhard brings his own deep love of wine and quest for simplicity to craft quality and a distinctive character in Flagstone Wines.

2018-04-0427 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 10. Alan Mahon, BrewgooderWe've swapped wine for beer on this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, to put some focus on the upcoming World Water Day. We’re chatting to Alan Mahon, founder of Scottish craft beer label Brewgooder which is on a mission to give 1,000,000 people access to clean drinking water. Launched in early 2016, Brewgooder donates 100% of its profits to clean water projects around the world. Founded by Alan and Josh Littlejohn MBE both of which were and are involved in Social Bite a movement to end homelessness in Scotland, the business runs on a simple message of drink beer, give water.

2018-03-0732 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 9. Martin Moore, Durbanville HillsHello and welcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Martin Moore, Cellarmaster at the Durbanville Hills winery situated 20 minutes from Cape Town’s city centre, with spectacular views of Table Mountain and Table Bay. Founded in the late 1990’s, Durbanville Hills Wines has wasted no time in establishing one of South Africa's leading wineries. The Durbanville Hills region is the second oldest wine region in South Africa. We talk to Martin about his career, his approach to winemaking and the wonderful wines he crafts.

2018-02-2627 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 8. Andrea Freeborough, NederburgHello and welcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. Today we’re talking to Andrea Freeborough, Cellarmaster here at Nederburg, a historic South African winery. Founded in 1791, Nederburg is South Africa’s most decorated name in wine. In 2016, Nederburg won the International Wine & Spirit Competition South African Wine Producer of the Year trophy, the second time in four years. We talk to Andrea about life on the Western Cape and how she got involved in winemaking. We discuss the ranges of Nederburg wines that includes the Heritage Heroes range of wines, indi...

2018-01-1222 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 7. Joe Fattorini, The Wine ShowWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, we’re talking to Joe Fattorini, IWC Personality of the Year and IWSC Wine Communicator of the Year. Wine expert, writer and one of the stars of TV’s The Wine Show, Joe actually has a previous life working for Matthew Clark. Joe gives us the latest on series 2 of The Wine Show, lets us in on his favourite moments from filming and tells us how he got involved with the show. We also investigate the keys to good wine communication as J...

2017-12-1436 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 6. Alastair Rimmer, Kleine ZalzeWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, it's Alastair Rimmer, the winemaker at South Africa's Kleine Zalze. Kleine Zalze’s are known for their award-winning wines filled with a distinctly South African character, boasting lively, full-bodied flavours that reflect the local climate and terroir. Based in the iconic Stellenbosch region, the wines of Kleine Zalze are produced by a dedicated team including today's guest, Alastair. Alastair has had a long career in wine and has worked in many of the worlds key regions. We chat to Alastair about St...

2017-11-2920 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 5. David Bicknell, Oakridge WinesWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, it's David Bicknell of Australia's Oakridge Wines. Founded in 1978, Oakridge are an award-winning and internationally renowned winery that pioneered wine growing in the upper Yarra Valley region. Chief Winemaker David Bicknell, has received one of the Australian wine industry’s most prestigious awards; the Gourmet Traveller Wine (GTW) Winemaker of the Year 2017, so when we had the opportunity to chat with him in London we jumped at it. We chat to David about the Yarra Valley, the philosophy at Oakridge, the se...

2017-11-1524 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 4. Lucy Clements, Accolade WinesWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, it's Lucy Clements of industry titans Accolade Wines. Lucy Clements has had a long and varied history in the wine industry covering making Champagne with Taittinger, English Sparkling at Chapel Down and buying for Britains biggest supermarkets. Now she's returned home, heading up the commercial winemaking at Accolade Wines covering some of the industries most well-known wines such as Hardy's. We chat to Lucy about her past, how that has shaped the wines she now produces for the UK market as...

2017-10-3026 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 3. Nuno Cabral, Quinta dos MurçasWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, it's Nuno Cabral of Esporao wines, Quinta dos Murças. Nuno Cabral has been with Esporao wines for a little while and is now embarking on their latest project, developing the historic vineyards of Quinta dos Murças in the Duoro. The vineyards are planted on schistous soils in the sub-region of Cima Corgo, in the cooler part of the Douro. They are planted, so as to harvest the maximum amount of sunlight; essential to fully ripen the grapes. Some are fa...

2017-10-1716 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 2. Hugh Crichton, Vidal Estate WinesWelcome to this Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode, it's Hugh Crichton, Winemaker of Vidal Estate Wines from the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand. Hugh Crichton became the Vidal Estate winemaker in 2006, having worked with the Vidal Estate winemaking team in various capacities since 2004. Prior to joining Vidal Estate, Hugh had established a solid winemaking career both in New Zealand and overseas, working vintages at Chateau Soutard Grande Cru Classe in Saint Emilion France, Chard Farm in Central Otago, Donnafugata in Italy and several at Millton Vineyards in Gisborne...

2017-10-0217 min

Matthew Clark Interviews Episode 1. Meaghan Frank, Dr Konstantin WinesWelcome to the first Matthew Clark Interviews podcast, where we sit down with the industries key figures. In this episode it's Meaghan Frank, General Manager of Dr. Konstantin Frank Wines from the famed Finger Lakes region of New York State. It’s the American home of Riesling production, by 2012 the US had the world’s second biggest area of Riesling vineyards after Germany. Dr Konstantin Frank revolutionised wine growing in Finger Lakes after arriving in the US in 1951. He was a professor of plant sciences and had brought with him a vision that would elevate wine growing in the region. A de...

2017-09-1527 min