Great ideas after dark
Welcome to Vespers, where we take up the last hour of your day.
A late-night webcast for the great ideas — the last hour of your day, spent thinking. Mostly talk, with a little jazz to breathe between the movements.
Pour something warm, turn the lights low, and stay a while.
The programme
I · Scripture
The Scriptures
Slow, unhurried studies through the books and themes of the Bible.
Book by bookII · Great Ideas
The Syntopicon
Mortimer Adler's index to the Great Ideas, taken in alphabetical order.
A→ZIII · Public domain
The Shelf
Classics in the common domain, read and discussed — Dickens and the shelf beyond.
Public domainIV · Wildcard
The Surprise
Other things that are of interest to the Architect of Vespers.
WhereverLatest broadcast · Great Ideas · July 21, 2026
Animal
The season turns the page from Angel to Animal — the creature just below the angels and just above the dust.
The archive