Video: Joy Marie Clarkson on Popular Culture and Faith | Walk & Talk

Sep 25, 2025
Arts Society & Culture Spirituality
Joy Marie Clarkson
An interview on how art, literature, and metaphor shape spiritual formation. Clarkson explores how engagement with popular and classical works deepens moral imagination, reorients our view of death, and cultivates attention, empathy, and hope.
Joy Marie Clarkson

Joy Marie Clarkson

Research Associate in Theology & Literature, King's College London

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