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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Immediately after Bryan Johnson’s “Don’t Die” keynote, Benedictine monk and physician Fr. Luke Dysinger offers a counterpoint from a 1,500-year-old rule: “Keep death daily before your eyes.”  Fr. Luke Dysinger, O.S.B., is a monk of St. Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California, a retired family-practice physician, and professor of moral theology and church history at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo.  ***  Recorded at ZOË: Life Abundant in an Artificial Age, Cluny Institute’s 2026 conference. ]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, joins Cluny Institute founder and director Luke Burgis at ZOË 2026 for a conversation about beauty, modernism, patronage, and what might come after a century of aesthetic stagnation.  Recorded at ZOË 2026, a gathering of the Cluny Institute in Napa, California.  *** Learn more about the Cluny Institute: https://cluny.org   ]]></itunes:summary>
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