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著者： Mark Meynell Joel Bain Sophie Killingley
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3 friends (@quaerentia @perishandfade @joel.a.bain) + 3 unrelated artistic masterpieces = insights for modern life (hopefully!)All content © Mark Meynell. アート キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 社会科学 聖職・福音主義
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  • Triptych Ep 2:7 | Berry’s Do Not Be Ashamed, Alexander’s Stay, Mendes’ 1917

    Triptych Ep 2:7 | Berry’s Do Not Be Ashamed, Alexander’s Stay, Mendes’ 1917
    2026/09/27
    The Masterpieces 1. Wendell Berry's DO NOT BE ASHAMED (1967) We had to rerecord this episode for several reasons (without changing the masterpieces), but this gave it added poignancy. The great farmer-poet Wendell Berry died in the intervening weeks (31st Aug 2026) at the age of 92 and so it was all the more special to focus on this poem, DO NOT BE ASHAMED. It’s one of the hundreds that he published over his long, intentionally non-transient life. But the fact of his total commitment to living in one place throughout (Port Royal, Kentucky) gives this remarkable poem even greater force since in many ways it articulates the worst sides of small-town life. It gives permission, if not a mandate, to break free from the psychological bonds that high-control communities exploit to keep their subjects in step. 2. Alexander Abraham's STAY (2019) The backstory to this song is fascinating. Alexander Abraham was born to Nigerian parents in Athens, Greece, but the whole family moved to the USA when he was just 11. But he faced more significant setbacks in the States. His mother was killed in a car crash resulting in his being fostered, and then as a talented football (ie proper, NOT American football) player, a serious injury ended his career. But during his convalescence, he started teaching himself guitar. Which is, of course, not necessarily going to result in much at all. But in Alexander’s case, it led to him starting a career in music. Who knows what might happen if injury ever prevents him from playing music? We had some discussion as to exactly what he’s wrestling with in the song Stay. Why the sense of guilt (in the first stanza), where do the loyalties lie? But it does seem (though you can make up your own mind) that he’s wrestling between the roots he’s put down in Texas and the fun and excitement of London’s music scene. It’s a beautifully measured performance, and Joel particularly loves the guitar solo by Gary Clark Jr in this clip below. 3. 1917 (dir. by Sam Mendes, 2019) Sam Mendes has a pretty impressive cinematic (let alone theatrical) track record. But 1917 may well go down as his masterpiece (unless his Beatles quartet is incredible…). Inspired by the stories told by his Trinidadian grandfather Alfred Mendes (who had fought in the First World War), the entire war is distilled into a 24 hour period in which we experience the constant jeopardy, futility and horror of the frontline. Two British Lance-corporals (Schofield and Blake) are ordered to undertake a do-or-die mission to warn the 2nd Battalion Devonshires that if they proceed with the planned dawn attack on the next morning, they will walk into a trap and be massacred (because the Germans have only made a tactical retreat). It is the ultimate Quest story, and it certainly packs a punch. The cinematography is spectacular, the cast top-notch, and the cinematic immersion complete. It is an astonishing achievement. I became quite obsessed with the film when it first came out, and ended up writing it up for The Rabbit Room here. It was the cyclical nature of the narrative that really got under my skin, so much so that I tried to map it out here. Other Mentions Screen Adaptations we have loved Sophie: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (the BBC / Colin Firth one)Joel: Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes (the modern one with Cumberbatch and Freeman)Mark: Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels (Apple TV with Gary Oldman etc)
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  • Triptych Ep 2:6 | Midnight Mass, James Turrell’s Skyspace, Brooke Fraser’s Who are we fooling?

    Triptych Ep 2:6 | Midnight Mass, James Turrell’s Skyspace, Brooke Fraser’s Who are we fooling?
    2026/08/23
    The Masterpieces 1. Midnight Mass (Mike Flannagan, 2021) Midnight Mass is a 7-part Netflix series that came out in 2021, created by horror aficionado Mike Flanagan. Which, for many of us is not exactly the greatest selling point. But bear with this, since there was method in Sophie’s madness for suggesting we watch this. For the purposes of the episode, we focused just on the first two episodes: Genesis & Psalms (click image right for full list of intriguing episode titles).A remote island, cut off by weather and failed ferries to the mainland, is the setting, a small community that revolves (for better or worse) around the island’s Catholic Church. This has beeb led by the elderly priest, Monsignor Pruitt, for years, but he is away on sick leave. The compelling but somewhat mysterious Father Paul stands in his place.This is a beautifully depicted community. But the most striking thing about the whole conception, as we discussed in the pod, is that none of it feels clichéd. 2. Green Mountain Falls Skyspace (James Turrell, 2022) James Turrell (1943– , USA) is a brilliant American artist who works with light. Green Mountain Falls is a remote town in Colorado and Turrell’s SKYSPACE was installed there in 2022 as part of a local arts project.The principle is very simple. A windowless cube of a room, with seating up against each of the four walls up in the mountains. But in the roof, there is a retractable door. Beyond that, only sky. Within the cube, sophisticated lighting can transform the atmosphere at the touch of a programmable button.Find out more here. 3. Who Are We Fooling (Brooke Fraser with Aqualung, 2010) Brooke Fraser (1983- ) is a singer from New Zealand and, for years, was associated with Hillsong Worship. But she has built a successful global career in her own right. The song Who Are We Fooling? is taken from her Flags album from 2010 and was written with the British singer Aqualung (aka Matt Hales).As Joel notes in our conversation, the song is unusual in being a genuine duet, rather than just a tune sung together. This is a musical dialogue that cuts right to the heart in the most affecting way.Here is a live version with a different singer, TEEKS, and the Auckland Philharmonia from 2024. Other Mentions Opening Gambit: Fave Pop Culture Moments Sophie: John Travolta’s Adele DazeemJoel: Jamaica wins 1st, and 2nd equal (Gold and 2 Silvers) at Beijing OlympicsMark: Boaty McBoatface
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  • Triptych Ep 2:5 | I Cheerfully Refuse, The Fighting Temeraire, No Line on the Horizon

    Triptych Ep 2:5 | I Cheerfully Refuse, The Fighting Temeraire, No Line on the Horizon
    2026/08/07
    The Masterpieces 1. Leif Enger's I CHEERFULLY REFUSE (2025) We start with a very up-to-date masterpiece this time: Leif Enger’s 2025 novel I Cheerfully Refuse. Enger is perhaps not so well known on this side of the Atlantic, but he deserves to be. His writing is lyrical and evocative, and the world he creates for this novel is fascinating. It falls within the genre of dystopia but it wears that lightly. For example, we never discover the nature of the cataclysm that transforms the world, only that it has occurred at some unspecified moment prior to the story. The fact that Enger wrote it during the Covid lockdowns (a bit like Amor Towles’ A Gentleman In Moscow) is not incidental, however! Set in the Great Lakes of North America, Enger’s characters wrestle with the challenges of this new environment, struggling to create a sense of order and community against the odds, while constantly trying to preserve their humanity. Recently widowed when his beloved wife Lark dies, Rainy befriends Sol, a young tearaway who joins him on his Orpheus-like journey. Despite coming from an essentially Christian foundation, the book is far too well-written and brilliantly conceived to descend into crude tub-thumping. Instead it is a moving and ultimately hope-filled testimony to reslience and wonder (not a million miles away from Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven). For more, listen to the conversation Russell Moore had with Leif Enger soon after the book came out – it’s full of fascinating and intriguing insights into the book and its meanings. 2. J. M. W. Turner's THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE (1838) Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was one of Britain’s greatest painters and of all his myriad works, The Fighting Temeraire is perhaps his most beloved. In polls purporting to identify Britain’s greatest/favourite/best (etc) painting, this frequently comes out on top (whatever that means). It is certainly one of the main attractions in the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square. This is a painting about transition, about the end of one era overlapping with the commencement of a new one. It depicts the final journey of the Temeraire (which had seen glorious service at the Battle of Trafalgar itself), as the ship is towed from Sheerness in Kent along the river Thames to Rotherhithe in south-east London, where it was to be scrapped. For various reasons, this painting is an impossibility, a fiction to portray a greater truth. But it is one of those paintings that mesmerises the viewer, because the more you look, the more you see. Turner adored painting grand landscapes (in the manner of Claude) with the gorgeous wide colour-spectrum so characteristic of dawn and sunset. But it is no accident that this moment of high nostalgia is bathed in a pre-dusk light. It is unsurprising then that this image means so much to a nation prone to nostalgia about past, so-called glories! And therefore, it was the perfect setting to a James Bond reaching the end of his usefulness… 3. U2's 3 Songs from NO LINE ON THE HORIZON (2009) It was only a matter of time. U2 had to make it onto Triptych at some point, for reasons that regulars to my blog will know all too well. I’m only hoping that you were all impressed by my self-restraint in holding it back to this stage in the second season. Instead of taking one song, or one album, we’re doing something a little unorthodox but there is actually method in the madness. And no, this is NOT the album U2 foolishly gave away to the world for free if they had an iPod or iPhone or whatever it was at the time. That was definitely a misfire. This album is the one before that one, and came out in 2009. It’s quite hard to pin down as a whole, but after the opening title track, it does seem to be formed of three little groupings. And this is the first set. They are the most explicitly theological of the album’s tracks, and they each do intriguing things. You can go into a lot more depth if you wish by reading this longer engagement that I wrote this longer engagement that I wrote some years’ back. But for now, read the lyrics (r) and listen to the episode! Other Mentions: 3 'Slappable' Characters! Joel: Yoda from the Star Wars franchiseSophie: Uriah Heep from Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield Mark: Kenneth Widmerpool from Antony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time (esp when played by Simon Russell-Beale)
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