Extra: my recent interview on the Fellow Traveler Podcast
I had an enjoyable 90-minute conversation with Peter L'Esperance a few days ago on his podcast. You can listen by clicking here. Peter effusively describes our discussion this way on his site:
"Addison is a beautiful author and lover of God and His Church. He shares how his experiences in and out of the Anglican tradition formed him. We also discuss the nuance of our response and involvement in politics as Christians, the meaning of the Gospel, the importance of contemplation and the inner spiritual life and his brother David...Enjoy!
https://angelicopress.org/addison-hodges-hart-bio”
Time flies, listening in on this warm conversation. From church and politics and faith and spirituality and Norway to affection and respect for his brother and lucid characterization of DBH's thought ... all this is just like one of those great evenings you don't want to end. Thank you, including Peter L'Esperance, for this podcast!
Thanks for this! I enjoyed your approach to and definition (so to speak) of the Gospel. I feel this contemplative/mystical orientation has been abandoned or at least forgotten in the modern church. I speak as someone raised within the Scottish Roman Catholic tradition, and whilst grateful for its moral foundation in Christ, this was lost and is greatly needed. It is still difficult to find. It seems in the West that Catholics who are “serious” about their faith are in actual fact more concerned about fidelity to dogma notwithstanding the right/left divide. Scotland’s culture does offer resistance to that, insofar as we are a left-leaning country. However, the true contemplative and apocalyptic core of the Gospel needs to be announced again. I think you and your brother’s writings part of this. This was a rather roundabout way of saying I am grateful for what you’re doing here.