Archive - Anthony Esolen Speaks of Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

A Hero for Our Time

What must it have been to be one of the apostles, and to realize later how little you understood of what Jesus had said in that brief time when he…

Apr 12 •

8:14

The Grateful Living will Rise Up

With Jesus on the Cross died all the hopes the disciples had ever had. They were crushed under the unbearable weight of loss. They fled. What would we…

Apr 5 •

7:13

March 2024

And the World Knew Him Not

A Meditation on John 1:10

Mar 29 •

11:26

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet..."

Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mar 13 •

5:42

February 2024

Feb 9 •

6:35

January 2024

Pottersville Nation

In "It's a Wonderful Life" Frank Capra was not predicting that Bedford Falls would become Potterville. He saw that the process was well underway across…

Jan 5

14:37

December 2023

How to Read a Work of Art: Christmas Masterpieces

Esolen Speaks is free to everyone on this fifth day of Christmas. I hope you will take a moment simply to behold four masterpieces of sacred art. ,

Dec 29, 2023 •

Putting the Christmas Back in Christ

The danger of doubting the nativity story is twofold at the least: that we will miss the child in Christ, and that we will miss Christ in the child.

Dec 15, 2023 •

8:58

Poetry in the Prologue to John's Gospel

The Semitic poetry of John's Gospel draws on scriptural accounts of the creation of the world and shows their fulfillment in the coming of the Messiah.

Dec 8, 2023 •

Must-Watch Christmas Movies

Listen now | Anthony Esolen with Patrick Coffin

Dec 1, 2023 •

1:13:53

November 2023

Pilgrims Planted

The call of the pilgrim is older than the Middle Ages, older even than the New Testament. In a way, it is as old as creation.

Nov 24, 2023 •

7:25

October 2023

Excerpt from my new translation of Augustine's Confessions

Listen now to St. Augustine's story of the conversion of Victorinus. Rome was stunned. The Church rejoiced!

Oct 20, 2023

13:14

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