The Seven Deadly Sins

We often say it's important for a person to be "authentic," but what does that mean? Why is that necessarily a good thing? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Hadley Suter (Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist) about the French noveli ...  Show more

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, two of the leading novelists of the 19th century, shared a remarkable literary friendship. After Charlotte's death, Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë became one of the most famous--and controversial--literary biographies ever written. In t ...  Show more

In today's podcast, we talk about vices and virtues. You'll learn vocabulary connected to the seven deadly sins and the seven heavenly virtues. Can you name all of them in English? 

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Host Ashley Willcott is known as a TV anchor, a former judge, and a trial lawyer, and nearly all of the cases she's covered over the years intersect with one of the seven deadly sins. 

Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth. The opposite of the seven heavenl ...

The Sins They Are Capable Of 

Let's start by getting the elephant out of the room: the Bible has nothing to do with this list. The fact that the 7 deadly sins come from Bible is a misconception. The 7 deadly sins, also known as the 7 capital sins, came into existence far after the books of the Bible were writ ...  Show more