A Bright Sadness With Christian Wiman

About this sermon

In our fast-paced world, how can we cultivate a sense of wonder and open ourselves to the possibility of joy, even amidst life's inevitable hardships? In this episode, we're joined by Christian Wiman as we continue our chapter-by-chapter exploration of Falling Upward with Chapter 10: "A Bright Sadness." In this conversation with Christian Wiman, we explore how suffering and joy can coexist and transform us through a poetic experience of Christianity. Before we dive in to the interview with Christian, CAC staff catch up with Richard at his hermitage to hear his reflections on the tenth chapter a decade after he originally wrote it. Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including two memoirs, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art; Every Riven Thing, winner of the Ambassador Book Award; Once in the West, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Survival Is a Style―all published by FSG. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School. Resources: • A PDF of the transcript for this episode is available here (https://cac.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/EB_S1_E10_ChristianWiman_Transcript.pdf) . • Grab a copy of the newly revised version of Falling Upward, with a new foreword by Brené Brown here (https://www.cac.org/FallingUpwardBook) . • Check out Christian Wiman's latest book, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/zero-at-the-bone-fifty-entries-against-despair-christian-wiman/19509958?ean=9780374603458) . We also reference his book, My Bright Abyss. You can find that here (https://bookshop.org/p/books/my-bright-abyss-meditation-of-a-modern-believer-christian-wiman/8480403?ean=9780374534370) . Connect with us: • Have a question or thought about this season that you'd like to share with us? • Email us: podcasts@cac.org (mailto:podcasts@cac.org) • Send us a voicemail here: http://www.cac.org/voicemail