Luke Streher is the General Manager at Cradio, philosophy graduate from the University of Notre Dame Australia, and a member of the Immaculata Community.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, explaining the ironic commercialisation of Christmas, the text’s fantastic qualities for children (and adults), and how anyone of any character can undergo a conversion.
The team explore Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven, discussing the endurance of love, and the Catholic understanding of heaven…
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss Poe’s The Raven, touching on poetic melancholy and the ability of art to predict the direction of philosophy and history.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant, discussing innocence, beauty, the Divine and the 19th Century aesthetic movement.
Luke Streher proposes that living a life to the full is living all that God wants for our lives. To help us do this, he provides three fairly recent examples of lives lived to the full: St Maximilian Kolbe, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
Luke, Kiara and Victoria discuss The Princess and the Goblin; exploring the presentation of God’s Grace in the lives of two children, and how a great-great grandmother teaches us about the Virgin Mary and true femininity.
Luke and Kiara “fly duo” with The Wife of Bath’s Tale; discovering how the medievals were the opposite of prudish, how Chaucer may have satirised the philosophical view of women in his time, + more
Luke, Kiara and Victoria explore this detective thriller to discuss Chesterton’s ability to “paint with words”, the poetry of order in the world, and why Catholicism provides the ultimate rebellion against the law of entropy.