What if Lent isn’t about giving something up, but about learning how to sit with what’s already gone? In this episode, Kate talks with poet, priest, and theologian Malcolm Guite about the kind of faith that can hold contradiction—the yes and the no, belief and doubt, beauty and sorrow. Malcolm, a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and author of Sounding the Seasons and Lifting the Veil, reflects on prayer as attention, poetry as a language spacious enough for ambivalence, and why faith might need less forced resolution and more honesty.

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Sounding the Seasons by Malcolm Guite
Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite
Seamus Heaney, Station Island
George Herbert, “Prayer”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, the “terrible sonnets” (including “No worst, there is none”) and The Wreck of the Deutschland
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
C.S. Lewis, “Blue Spells and Flowered Spheres”
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