Island Idylls
Island Idylls riffs on books and life with Barry Menikoff. Author of Stone Mother, Brooklyn born and bred, retired Hawaii university professor, international scholar. Evangelical pastor Aaron Menikoff, author of Politics and Piety, spices this dialogue between father and son. Both chasing that elusive line in an old song, What's it all about, Alfie?
Religion
Christianity
History
Books
Spirituality
Writing
Arts
Philosophy
Religion & Spirituality
Literature
Judaism
Society & Culture
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2021
15 - Anatomy of a Story
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00:44:41 |
Wed 25 Mar 2020
13 - D. H. Lawrence & Pornography
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00:48:48 |
Wed 26 Feb 2020
04 - Stone Mother, Part One
Everybody has a story, but most people don’t write them down. Barry did!
In his memoir, Stone Mother, Barry shares what he remembers about his early years. A family that escaped persecution in Pola…
00:49:38 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
03 - Breaking Down the “System”
Barry and Aaron dive into the deep end of the pool as they discuss Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, “System,” found in his famous Child’s Garden of Verses.
What do most people think about religion? I…
00:34:57 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
02 - Introducing Barry Menikoff
As a newly minted PhD at the young age of 26, less than 25 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Barry said goodbye to Madison, and found himself teaching Hawaiians just a few miles off Waikiki B…
00:53:33 |
Wed 14 Aug 2019
01 - Introducing Island Idylls
You’ve found Island Idylls! In this inaugural episode, Barry and Aaron get to the bottom of the title. What island are they talking about (hint: Aloha) and what exactly is an “idyll”?
They explain …
00:25:08 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
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