Great ideas after dark

Welcome to Vespers, where we take up the last hour of your day.

A late-night talk show for the great ideas — the last hour of your day, spent thinking. Mostly talk, with a little jazz to breathe between the movements.

Pour something warm, turn the lights low, and stay a while.

Vespers — a chair and a waveform in Blue Note blues
The programme

What we work through

One big idea at a time — slowly, and out loud.

I · Scripture

The Scriptures

Slow, unhurried studies through books and themes of the Bible — read closely, turned over, and let to breathe.

Book by book
II · The Great Ideas

The Syntopicon

Mortimer Adler's index to the Great Books, taken in alphabetical order — Angel, Art, Beauty, Being — one idea a night, and the long conversation it has carried.

A→Z
III · Public domain

The Shelf

Classics in the common domain, read and discussed — Dickens' Great Expectations and the long shelf beyond it.

Public domain
Latest broadcast · Great Ideas · July 21, 2026

Animal

The season turns the page from Angel to Animal — the creature just below the angels and just above the dust.

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