Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book was discussed; one of the speakers mentioned having a positive experience with the author's writing, while others had previously found it lacking in humour.
I liked it actually. I really liked it.
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Episode: [Unedited] George Coyne and Guy Consolmagno with K...
This book was discussed; one of the speakers mentioned having a positive experience with the author's writing, while others had previously found it lacking in humour.
I liked it actually. I really liked it.
Oh, we had a long email correspondence, myself and Maria.
Episode: [Unedited] Mary Doria Russell With Krista Tippett
It was a science fiction novel about a Jesuit mission to another planet that went terribly wrong, leaving the main character questioning his faith and his relationship with God. The book explores themes of betrayal, tragedy, and the search for meaning in the face of suffering.
I'm Mary Doria Russell, you're listening to my unedited conversation with Mary Doria Russell.
She's a retired paleo-anthropologist and the author of four novels, including The Sparrow and Children of God.
I did bring copies of the first two books because I thought those were what you were going to talk about. Those are the ones I want to start with and talk about mostly.
But what I discovered as I was writing was that I'm bilingual religiously but I am a Jew.
And that's really the underlying theme in both the sparrow and children of God, that God paints on a vast canvas and that his brush is time.
Episode: Mary Doria Russell — The Novelist as God
It explores the ethical complexities of encountering other species and delves into the themes of social evolution and the challenges of controlling the outcomes of intentions, both good and bad. The book's Jesuit-led scientific delegation to the planet Rakhat is led by the haunting music created by Hlavin Katherie.
In a culture walled in by tradition and heavy with stability, Hlavin Katherie had created a new subtlety, a delicacy, a new appreciation of raw experience.
Opening the flask, breathing its vacuum, Katherie was met by a plume of sweetly cathoric enzyme by products, giving off notes of basil and terragon. By chocolate eramatics, sugar carbonyl and piercing compounds, carrying the suggestion of vanilla by hints of nutmeg and cell receipt and cumin in the products of dry distillation created during roasting.
A poet with no words to describe organic beauties whose origin he could not possibly suspect, Hlavin Katherie knew only that he must know more and because of this, lives were changed again
The voyage was not without reward for Alan Mark said, but we are left with Anne's question. I would God bring him all this way only to die now.
Perhaps we must all own up to being agnostic, unable to know the unknowable. Mark continued. The Jewish Sages also tell us that God dances when his children defeat him in argument when they stand on their feet and use their minds.