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Episode 75: Jonathan Pageau/Bernardo Kastrup: Orthodoxy, Resurrecting the Western Mind, Body & Soul
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Please check out Linda's books, talks, and papers. It's well worth the effort:
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For more and to buy the book, see her website here:
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Séamus Ó Fianghusa, known as ‘Séamus na Gaeilge’ in the Donegal Gaeltacht, is an author and US Army soldier. He is the author of a book on St Jude, patron saint of lost causes, Gaelic culture, and his Catholic faith.
Special thanks to my friend, Fr. Ryan Duns, who has allowed me to use his music for this series.
He is offering a great service by keeping traditional Irish music alive and bringing it to a new audience. You can listen to his music and follow him here:
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As always with More Christ, I hope this is for the glory of God and good of Man.
I offer a brief 'theology of storytelling' here:
youtube.com/watch?v=fWkPBXjzaIw
He has also been involved in an exciting YouTube series called Treasure Ireland, focusing on the hidden gems of the history of the Christian faith in Ireland. We spoke about this and much more.
For more, please see:
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Special thanks to my friend, Fr. Ryan Duns, who has allowed me to use his music for this series. He is offering a great service by keeping traditional Irish music alive and bringing it to a new audience. You can listen to his music and follow him here:
youtube.com/@RyanDunsSJ
As always with More Christ, I hope this is for the glory of God and good of Man.
I offer a brief 'theology of storytelling' here:
youtube.com/watch?v=fWkPBXjzaIw
Toward the end of his graduate work in 1985, Mike began to question the veracity of his faith and wondered if there was any evidence to support it. He decided not to go into Christian ministry at that time. Finding answers to his questions consumed him and he almost jettisoned his faith. He investigated the evidence for Christianity and a number of other major world religions. He also considered the arguments for atheism. His investigation solidified his belief that God exists and that he has actually revealed himself to mankind in Jesus Christ and that the Christian view provides the most plausible and unified theory of reality.
In July of 1997, Mike formed TruthQuest Ministries in order to give an official name to his growing ministry and to allow future donors to make tax-deductible gifts. In October 2001, the ministry was renamed “RisenJesus” in order to avoid confusion with other ministries named “TruthQuest” and more closely reflect its vision of equipping 100,000 Christians to share their faith using the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection.
Mike has a Ph.D. in New Testament (University of Pretoria). He completed all requirements “with distinction” and the highest marks. He is a frequent speaker on university campuses, churches, Christian groups, retreats, frequently debates, and has appeared as a guest on dozens of radio and television programs. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological and Philosophical Societies, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the prestigious Studitorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Mike is Professor of New Testament Studies at Houston Christian University and the president of Risen Jesus, Inc.
Mike is married to Debbie and they have two grown children, Alexandra and Zachary.
Mike is the author, co-author or editor of seven (7) books
Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn From Ancient Biography (Oxford University Press, 2017)
The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (IVP Academic, 2010)
Evidence for God: 50 Arguments for Faith from the Bible, History, Philosophy and Science, with co-editor William Dembski (Baker 2010)
Paul Meets Muhammad which is a debate on the resurrection of Jesus between the apostle Paul and the prophet Muhammad
The award winning The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus with co-author Gary Habermas which is a comprehensive self-study course
Cross Examined, a legal novel defending the historicity of Jesus’ resurrection
Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock which lays out in a concise manner what to say to Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses when they knock on your door.
Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels tell the same story differently (Zondervan Academic, 2024)
Raised on the Third Day: Defending the Historicity of the Resurrection of Jesus, with co-editor W. David Beck (Lexham Press, 2020)
For more, please see:
risenjesus.com/mike-licona
youtube.com/channel/UCpye4_AHQsz71V2F1K_PP0g
His dissertation, “Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age? William Desmond’s Theological Achievement” argued that, when read as a form of spiritual exercise (Pierre Hadot), Desmond’s philosophy can re-awaken a sense of the Transcendent.
Now available in updated form as a book, Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God.
youtube.com/@RyanDunsSJ
theopolisinstitute.com/conversations/on-the-monstrosity-of-christ
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He was active in Irish politics in the 1990s and led the Christian Solidarity Party between 1993 and 1999. He now holds libertarian and what he terms (philosophically) anarchistic views. His philosophical interests include political philosophy, philosophy of law and philosophy of religion.
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Dr. Wanjiru Njoya is a Scholar-in-Residence for the Mises Institute. She is the author of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Redressing Historical Injustice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, with David Gordon) and “A Critique of Equality Legislation in Liberal Market Economies” (Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2021).
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More from Jordan Hall -
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Note: I mentioned family Spiritual practices. Both Justin Whitmel Earley and Wendy M. Wright have been helpful to me.
Chartier is a professor and serves as associate dean of La Sierra University's business school.
Please see his website, here:
http://www.garychartier.net
Bestselling Author. But Brian is also an author and international speaker on art, movies, worldviews, and faith. His popular book,Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom and Discernment, is used as a textbook in schools around the country. He is a contributing scholarly writer to various journals and professional orgs, and his articles on movies and philosophy have been published around the world. His Chronicles series of novels are his most important contribution by incarnating his worldview and theology in narrative unlike anything you’ve read before.
Hollywood Filmmaker. As an award-winning screenwriter, his first feature film was To End All Wars, starring Kiefer Sutherland. But his skills and experience quickly expanded to include writing and directing feature films, documentaries and video promotionals.
When he isn’t reading, watching movies, or loving on his wife, he is reading, watching movies, or loving on his wife. He knows, he knows: He should get out more.
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He taught at the universities of Oxford, Durham, and St. Andrews before retiring in 2015. He is well-known for his "non-punitive theory of purgatory, his defence of specific versions of social Trinitarianism and kenotic Christology, his distinctive theory of divine revelation as mediated fallibly through both tradition and imagination, and his proposals regarding a pervasive sacramentality discerned in nature and human culture alike."
Videos and Websites for more of David:
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Research Areas
An earlier interest in interactions between theology and philosophy has now broadened out into one between theology and the wider culture, especially the arts. In my earlier career at Oxford (1976-90), I focused on the relationship with philosophy and this is reflected in my two major books from that period: The Divine Trinity (1985) and Continental Philosophy and Modern Theology (1987). However, thereafter with my appointment first to Durham in 1990 and subsequently to St Andrews in 2007 my interests widened to consideration of theology's relationship with the arts and culture more generally.
That interest is reflected in five books all published by Oxford University Press between 1999 and 2008. In the first two Tradition and Imagination (1999) and Discipleship and Imagination (2000) I explored the way in which the Christian understanding of biblical revelation has been affected by changes in the wider culture and in turn affected that wider culture. The history of art can provide some good examples, for instance in differing treatments across the centuries of the nativity or crucifixion of Christ. The later three then looked at religious experience and the way in which this might be mediated through the arts and culture. God and Enchantment of Place (2004) explored this primarily through landscape painting, geography and architecture, as well as, more briefly, in other neglected areas such as changing attitudes to garden design. God and Grace of Body (2007) examined attitudes to the body as well as music in all its forms (including pop music). Finally, God and Mystery in Words (2008) explored religious experience as mediated through drama and poetry and their expression in worship as liturgy and hymns.
However. a book published initially in French in 2010 La tradition kénotique dans la théologie britannique represented a return to more doctrinal and philosophical issues. An English version becomes available from Baylor University Press in 2011 under the title, Divine Humanity: Kenosis and the Construction of a Christian Theology.
Among his many books are Platonic Mysticism (SUNY Press 2017), American Gurus (Oxford UP, 2014), Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esotericism (Rowman Littlefield, 2007), The New Inquisitions: Heretic-hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism (Oxford UP, 2006), Restoring Paradise: Esoteric Transmission through Literature and Art (SUNY: 2004); The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance (Oxford UP: 2001); Wisdom’s Book: The Sophia Anthology, (Paragon House, 2000); Island Farm (MSU Press, 2000); Wisdom’s Children: A Christian Esoteric Tradition (SUNY: 1999); and American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions (Oxford UP, 1993).
His family has owned a commercial farm in West Michigan for several generations, and so he also published a book called Island Farm about the family farm, and about family farming in the modern era.
Versluis was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Germany and is the editor of JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism. He is the founding president of Hieros, a 501c3 nonprofit focused on spirituality and cultural renewal.
For more, please see:
arthurversluis.com
Eventually chemical warfare was used, and unimaginable side effects plagued the country. At an early age the horrors of war caused Naghmeh to seek God for answers about why he would allow such suffering. Naghmeh and her twin brother became steadfast in their pursuit of God. As Muslims they read the Quran, performed Islamic prayers, and fasted.
Eventually, recruiters from the Iranian military began entering elementary schools and encouraging boys to enlist in the military, saying that if they died they would go to heaven because this was a holy war. The young boys were sent to the front lines to run through land mines so that the trained soldiers could safely follow after them. If parents objected to their children enlisting, they would be taken by the police and imprisoned for speaking against the government. With a young son in jeopardy, Naghmeh’s family knew they must leave Iran.
At the age of 9, Naghmeh and her family moved to San Jose, California. Within weeks of their arrival, Naghmeh and her twin brother discovered the God they had been looking for, Jesus Christ. They learned that through the death of Jesus Christ their sins were forgiven. They learned that they did not have to die in a holy war or do religious work in order to reach God, but instead God came in human flesh through the person of Jesus Christ. Most importantly they learned that Jesus loved them. Naghmeh and her twin brother became dedicated followers of Christ at the age of 9.
Naghmeh’s parents were furious when they found out that she had become a Christian and considered moving the family back to Iran. Instead of moving, Naghmeh’s family was persuaded to move closer to family in Boise, ID where they hoped the seclusion of the area would provoke their children to return to Islam. Eventually their hearts softened after secretly reading a Bible they had taken from Naghmeh seven years earlier. They too became followers of Christ.
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Naghmeh’s hope was to be a missionary medical doctor in a third world country, so she became a pre-med student at the University of Puget Sound. Soon after September 11th, 2001 Naghmeh returned to Iran, this time as a Christian.
This is when Naghmeh experienced the plight of Christians and religious minorities in Iran and also gained first-hand experience of the oppression and violence women are subjected to everyday in the Middle East. Her own life was in constant danger as a Christian convert from Islam. She was arrested by the Iranian revolutionary guards multiple times, and with guns pointed at her head was told to renounce her Christian faith or she would be raped and killed. She lived in constant fear of associating with other Christians because many times the house churches were raided, and her friends and fellow Christians were arrested and imprisoned.
In 2002 Naghmeh met Saeed Abedini and helped start one of the largest house church movements in Iran. In 2004 she married Saeed, and by 2005 the house churches had grown to over 2,000 members in over 30 cities. As the house churches grew so did the persecution. Due to increased persecution and arrests Naghmeh and Saeed left Iran and returned to America where Naghmeh raised her two children Rebekka and Jacob in Idaho. In 2012, her husband, Saeed Abedini, was arrested while visiting Iran. Through God’s grace Naghmeh was able to bring world-wide attention not only to Saeed’s imprisonment in Iran, but also to the plight of persecuted Christians worldwide. She orchestrated multiple large prayer rallies around the nation and spoke at churches, human rights groups, major news networks, the United Nations in Geneva, the European Parliament, multiple times before Congress, and to President Obama and Donald Trump. Each time God used Naghmeh to proclaim the Gospel, and a widespread prayer movement was started in the Christian community.
Her book Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages (Word on Fire Academic, 2021) received the 2022 Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
Her newest book is Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, which wad released in time for the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death on September 2nd, 2023. For more details and video interviews, see the publisher’s page for the book; you can also buy it on Amazon US & Blackwell’s Books in the UK as well as on Amazon UK.
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Tammy and I spoke about this journey, beginning with her upbringing in Canada, before looking at the Peterson's love story, some struggles the family have faced, the blessings they have received in marriage and as parents, a modern miracle, femininity vs feminism, the role of the body in the Christian way, a new life of prayer, and more.
Please, check out Tammy's podcast, here:
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You can read more about Adam and engage with his work here:
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He is an Associate Editor of Brill Research Perspectives in Theological Traditions and the co-editor of the Contributions to Philosophical Theology series. Recently, he has been the recipient of four visiting research fellowships: the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Italy), the Hong Kierkegaard Library (USA), Gladstone’s Library (UK), and the National Institute for Newman Studies (USA).
Before coming to Maynooth, he held a tenure-track teaching and research position at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Prior to Nijmegen, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Leslie Center for Humanities and a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. Also, he has been a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Durham University (UK) in the Department of Theology and Religion.
His recent book, ‘Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard‘ was published by Oxford University Press. For a 30% discount on OUP’s website, use this code: AAFLYG6
His main research interests are in the areas of 19th & 20th century Continental Philosophy and Systematic Theology. In particular, he is interested in modern philosophical engagements in Catholic Theology and the intersection between Catholic thought and contemporary culture. At Radboud University, he contributed directly to the research output of Radboud’s Center for Catholic Studies.
He has been recognized for internationally outstanding, research-led teaching across various disciplines. At Tübingen, he taught ‘Theology and Film‘. At Dartmouth, he taught ‘Kierkegaard & Religious Existentialism’. At Durham University (UK), he taught in the areas of Philosophy of Religion, the history of Christian doctrine, and Religion & Film. At Radboud, he taught in the areas of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology. At Maynooth, he teaches in the area of Systematic Theology.
For more, please see here:
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0040563917714618
https://sppu.ie/staff/joshua-furnal
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In this one hundred and ninth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Paul Gottfried.
Paul Edward Gottfried is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, historian, and writer. He is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
He is editor-in-chief of the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles and is an associated scholar at the Mises Institute, a libertarian think tank.
Here's a list of books referenced in this episode:
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In this one hundred and eighth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Autumn Kern from The Commonplace podcast.
Please see the recommended reading lists for this episode and for the channel, below:
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"...The Commonplace podcast exists to bridge the gap between the starting line of the home-schooling journey and the resources in the classical world. It’s your home-schooling Virgil, leading you from the ideas floating high in the sky down to the dirt where you can wrap your hands around them and start planting them like seeds in your children’s lives."
Check it out, here:
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Matthew is the Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and its Professor of Catholic Ethics. He has authored and edited several books, including:
- Evangelization and Ideology: How to Understand and Respond to the Political Culture
- Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity, The Search for a Meaningful Life
- Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries
- Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity.
He lectures broadly in both English and Spanish on moral philosophy/theology, politics, social issues, and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
You can follow his work and see more from him, here:
wordonfire.org/author/dr-matthew-petrusek
twitter.com/MattPetrusek
wordonfire.org/videos/idolatry-of-identity/lecture-1-wokeism-the-frankenstein-of-political-ideologies
Timothy R. Jennings, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist, master psychopharmacologist, international speaker, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association.
He earned his M.D. in 1990 from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis and completed his psychiatric residency at D.D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. He also served as the division psychiatrist for the 3rd Infantry Division and as president of the Southern and Tennessee Psychiatric Associations.
Dr. Jennings works in private practice and lives in Chattanooga with his wife, Christie. He is also the president and founder of Come and Reason Ministries and is the author of the following books:
The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind
The God-Shaped Brain: How Changing Your View of God Transforms Your Life
The God-Shaped Heart: How Correctly Understanding God’s Love Transforms Us
Could It Be This Simple? A Biblical Model for Healing the Mind
The Journal of the Watcher
The Remedy New Testament Expanded Paraphrase
Dr. Jennings goal is to help people experience the healthiest happiest lives possible. To this end he seeks to educate people about the working of the mind, the principles upon which life and health are designed to operate, and teach people how to weigh evidences and make healthy choices in their own lives, all of which work together to improve health and wellbeing.
For more, please see here:
timjenningsmd.com/about
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Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, George Weigel is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
For more, please see:
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Jason Smyth is one of the greatest para athletes of all time. The Derry born sprinter has the distinction of never having tasted defeat in a major Para- Athletics event since his debut at the 2005 European Championships in Espoo, Finland.
Jason has represented Ireland at 3 Paralympic Games including Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Jason won gold medals in all three of his Paralympic Games do date winning the 100m in the T13 classification at each event and in the 200m in both 2008 and 2012 before the event was excluded from subsequent games.
Jason has been the most consistent performer in the world for the past 15 years and he is the World Record holder on both the 100m and 200m events. Jason competes in the T13 category for athletes that have a Visual Impairment.
Honours:
2005 European Champion Espoo 100m
2005 European Champion Espoo 200m
2006 World Champion Assen 200m
2006 World Champion Assen 100m
2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 100m
2008 Paralympic Champion Beijing 200m
2012 Paralympic Champion London 100m
2012 Paralympic Champion London 200m
2013 World Champion Lyon 100m
2013 World Champion Lyon 200m
2014 European Champion Swansea 100m
2014 European Champion Swansea 200m
2015 World Champion Doha 100m
2016 Paralympic Champion 100m
2017 World Champion 100m
2017 World Champion 200m
2018 European Champion 100m
2018 European Champion 200m
2019 World Champion 100m
Follow him here:
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You're welcome to join us on Saturday and Sunday 29th and 30th July for a wonderful weekend of conversations, creativity, and fellowship.
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In my first in-person event for More Christ, Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw come together in Dublin for a day of transformative wonder tales and deep discussions.
Together with an audience, we wrestled with some major questions:
How can we understand the deep symbolism of the Christian story? What do the lives of the saints and the tales woven around them have to say to us today? Can the ancient roots of the faith, in Ireland and beyond, be rediscovered in a world desperate for spiritual truth? How should we live that truth?
On Saturday 3rd June, Dublin hosted a memorable conference on myth, symbolism, and the Christian story in the 21st century. Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw introduced a different Christian vocabulary, regaling an audience with Christian wonder tales, and laid out a vision that goes beyond the confines of modernity or cosy nostalgia.
Jonathan Pageau is an icon carver, symbologist, and public speaker. He is the host of the popular YouTube channel and podcast, The Symbolic World. Along with his brother, Matthieu, he is also the author of God's Dog, a graphic novel based on the epic legend of the dog-headed Saint Christopher.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. He has written nine books, including the Booker-nominated novel The Wake and several collections of essays and poetry. He has taught and spoken across the world.
Martin Shaw is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and mythologist. He has toured internationally numerous times and created the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University. He lived in a tent for four years, exploring remaining areas of British wilderness. The Sunday Times describes his latest book Bardskull as "a full tilt gallop...clear water from a rushing spring"
Hosted by Marcas Connolly of YouTube's More Christ, this day was dedicated to exploring the myths and symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, and how they can speak to us as we navigate modern culture.
Ultimately, we hope attendees went away transformed by the renewal of their minds, able to see the Christian story and the world around them in a newly invigorated light.
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In my first in-person event for More Christ, Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw come together in Dublin for a day of transformative wonder tales and deep discussions.
Together with an audience, we wrestled with some major questions:
How can we understand the deep symbolism of the Christian story? What do the lives of the saints and the tales woven around them have to say to us today? Can the ancient roots of the faith, in Ireland and beyond, be rediscovered in a world desperate for spiritual truth? How should we live that truth?
On Saturday 3rd June, Dublin hosted a memorable conference on myth, symbolism, and the Christian story in the 21st century. Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, and Martin Shaw introduced a different Christian vocabulary, regaling an audience with Christian wonder tales, and laid out a vision that goes beyond the confines of modernity or cosy nostalgia.
Jonathan Pageau is an icon carver, symbologist, and public speaker. He is the host of the popular YouTube channel and podcast, The Symbolic World. Along with his brother, Matthieu, he is also the author of God's Dog, a graphic novel based on the epic legend of the dog-headed Saint Christopher.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. He has written nine books, including the Booker-nominated novel The Wake and several collections of essays and poetry. He has taught and spoken across the world.
Martin Shaw is an award-winning storyteller, writer, and mythologist. He has toured internationally numerous times and created the Oral Tradition and Mythic Life courses at Stanford University. He lived in a tent for four years, exploring remaining areas of British wilderness. The Sunday Times describes his latest book Bardskull as "a full tilt gallop...clear water from a rushing spring"
Hosted by Marcas Connolly of YouTube's More Christ, this day was dedicated to exploring the myths and symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world, and how they can speak to us as we navigate modern culture.
Ultimately, we hope attendees went away transformed by the renewal of their minds, able to see the Christian story and the world around them in a newly invigorated light.
Follow More Christ on Eventbrite for further events.
Nancy Pearcey is a bestselling author and speaker. A former agnostic, she was hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.”
Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Times, First Things, Human Events, American Thinker, Daily Caller, The Federalist, CNSNews, and Fox News. She has appeared on NPR, C-SPAN, and Fox & Friends. She is currently a professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. Pearcey’s books have been translated into 19 languages and include Total Truth, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, Love Thy Body, and The Toxic War on Masculinity.
For more, please see:
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twitter.com/NancyRPearcey
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Glen Scrivener is an ordained Church of England minister and evangelist who preaches Christ through writing, speaking, and online media. He directs the evangelistic ministry Speak Life.
Originally from Australia, Glen now lives with his wife, Emma, and two children in England, and they belong to All Souls Eastbourne.
He is the author of several books, including The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality (The Good Book Company, 2022) and 3-2-1: The Story of God, the World, and You (10Publishing, 2014).
For more about Glen, please see here:
speaklife.org.uk/about
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This poem was inspired in part by Glencar Waterfall and the location is mentioned explicitly in the poem.
The Stolen Child also makes reference to faeries and the lore around these otherworldly creatures, popular throughout Ireland. The romantic poet even collected many of these tales and released them in a book, which I have added to the thumbnail.
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
#Yeats #discoverireland #Irelandshiddenheartlands #tourism #tourismireland #ireland #poetry #poem #poems #leitrim #wbyeats #fairy #fairies #irish #folkore
Os Guinness is an author and social critic. Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War Two where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England.
He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books, including The Call, Time for Truth, Unspeakable, A Free People’s Suicide, The Global Public Square, Last Call for Liberty, and Carpe Diem Redeemed. His latest book is Signals of Transcendence: Listening to the Promptings of Life. We will focus predominantly on this work in this episode.
Since moving to the United States in 1984, Os has been a Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Studies, a Guest Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum and the EastWest Institute in New York. He was the lead drafter of the Williamsburg Charter in 1988, a celebration of the bicentennial of the US Constitution, and later of “The Global Charter of Conscience,” which was published at the European Union Parliament in 2012.
Os has spoken at many of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences across the world. He lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington DC area.
If you would like to learn more, please see the links here:
osguinness.com
amazon.co.uk/Os-Guinness/e/B001ILOC6I?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1630771551&sr=8-1
In this landmark one hundredth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by former guests and friends Thomas and Lou to celebrate the life and work of our friend, Matt Miller from Logos Made Flesh.
If you would like to learn more about these gentlemen, please see the links below:
Dr Louis Markos -
amazon.co.uk/Louis-Markos/e/B001JSBEBG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1618233620&sr=8-2
Thomas, formerly of Storytellers and now of the Armchair Historian -
youtube.com/channel/UCbphDfwSJmxk1Ny_3Oicrng
youtube.com/@TheArmchairHistorian
Matt's Logos Made Flesh -
youtube.com/user/youthnation1
In this ninety-ninth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Ashley Lande. Ashley is an artist and writer from the U.S.A. She has a website and blog, which you can check out at www.ashleylande.com.
Alongside her wonderful writings, some of which we discussed, you can see her stunning art- filled with vibrant colours, subtle golf leaves, and captivating drawings.
Ashley is post-psychedelic and has a forthcoming memoir on leaving psychedelics for Jesus, to be published with Lexham Press.
For more, check out her articles here:
fathommag.com/stories/acidhead-god-took-me-higher
ekstasismagazine.com/blog/2022/8/27/the-self-destroyed
In this ninety-eighth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by my friend, Paul Kingsnorth and Tom Holland.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.
Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered.
Follow him here:
paulkingsnorth.net
paulkingsnorth.substack.com
Tom Holland is a British writer, who has published several popular works on classical and medieval history as well as creating two documentaries. His recent book on the history of Christianity became a Sunday Times bestseller. He is currently the host of The Rest is History, alongside Dominic Sandbrooke.
For more, please see here:
amazon.co.uk/Tom-Holland/e/B000APEALK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
tom-holland.org
open.spotify.com/show/7Cvsbcjhtur7nplC148TWy
In this ninety seventh episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by the magnificent Catholic psychologist and prolific author, Dr Kevin Vost.
Dr Vost has written astutely about everything from Stoic philosophy to memory, to Catholic guides to loneliness, physical fitness, and St Thomas Aquinas. We discuss his recent book, You Are That Temple: A Catholic Guide to Health and Holiness.
If you'd like to learn more about Kevin and his work, please see the links below:
http://drvost.com
amazon.co.uk/Kevin-Vost/e/B001JP19P0?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1677877573&sr=1-1
In this ninety sixth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Fr. Benedict Kiely.
Father Benedict Kiely is a Catholic priest, incardinated in the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Born in London, and ordained in Canterbury, England in 1994, Father Ben has spent most of his priestly ministry in the United States.
In the summer of 2014, Father Ben perceived a call to devote his entire priestly ministry to aid and advocacy for persecuted Christians, especially in the Middle East. Founding Nasarean.org, a 501 (c) 3 charity based in Stowe, Vermont and with the permission and support of his Ordinary, Father Ben divides his time between the US, UK and the Middle East, speaking, preaching and writing, trying to focus attention on the plight of persecuted Christians around the world.
He has visited war-torn Iraq on multiple occasions since 2015, and has visited Syria and Lebanon where Nasarean is now supporting a number of family businesses.
Father Ben has appeared numerous times on national radio and television, including Fox News, the BBC and international podcasts. A noted writer, formerly the US columnist for The Catholic Times, Fr. Ben’s work has appeared in, among other publications, The Saint Austin Review, The American Conservative, The European Conservative, The Daily Caller, Real Clear Politics, National Review, First Things, The Catholic Herald and Crisis.
For more, please see:
nasarean.org/index.php
In this ninety fifth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Jonathan Pageau and Dr Spencer Klavan.
Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox and other traditional images. He also designs products, teaches, and makes fantastic videos for The Symbolic World that explore how ancient patterns can re-enchant our contemporary life.
Please check out Jonathan's channel:
youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau
With a PhD in Classics, Spencer Klavan has recently been snapped up by The Daily Wire. He is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute.
Spencer's literary expertise is aided by his knowledge of many languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. As a scholar who enjoys exploring how great works of literature provide valuable insights into today's world, Klavan hosts Young Heretics every Tuesday.
Please see his website and some of his excellent articles, here:
youngheretics.com
claremontreviewofbooks.com/author/spencer-klavan
dailywire.com/author/spencer-klavan
In this ninety fourth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Christopher Watkin.
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. At its broadest, his research seeks to make sense of how people make sense of the world, and how they interact with ideas and positions different from their own.
In his first book Phenomenology or Deconstruction? (2009) he explored the complex relationship between two major philosophical tendencies in the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur and Jean-Luc Nancy. Difficult Atheism (2011) then examined how three contemporary thinkers—Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux—make sense of the world without the gods of metaphysics, poetry and religion, and how their three positions critique and refine each other.
In French Philosophy Today: New Figures of the Human in Badiou, Meillassoux, Malabou, Serres and Latour he shifted the focus from God to a humanity, arguing that very different contemporary thinkers each rely on a ‘host’ to make sense of the human, whether it be a capacity, substance or narrative.
His later book, Michel Serres: Figures of Thought continues his investigation into different ways of making sense of the world by presenting the first systematic treatment in English of a key twentieth and twenty-first century philosopher whose genuinely cross-disciplinary work finds complex ‘North-West passages’ between the sciences, humanities and arts.
His latest book, Biblical Critical Theory, is the focus of our discussion and builds upon his previous endeavours in fascinating ways.
Please see:
christopherwatkin.com
amazon.co.uk/Christopher-Watkin/e/B0034PVTTE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
twitter.com/DrChrisWatkin
In this ninety third episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Norman Wirzba.
Norman Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He lectures frequently in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
In particular, his research is centered on a recovery of the doctrine of creation and a restatement of humanity in terms of its creaturely life. He is currently the director of a multi-year, Henry Luce-Foundation-funded projected entitled “Facing the Anthropocene.” In this project, housed at Duke’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, he is working with an international team of scholars to rethink several academic disciplines in light of challenges like climate change, food insecurity, biotechnology and genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, species extinction, and the built environment.
Professor Wirzba has published several books, including Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land, The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age, Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight, Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity, From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (in its 2nd Edition), and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation.
He also has edited several books, including The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.
Please see:
amazon.co.uk/Norman-Wirzba/e/B001J3L9Y8%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
normanwirzba.com
In this ninety second episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by Dr Robert M. Woods.
Robert has been involved with Classical Christian education for over twenty-five years. He currently serves as the Headmaster of Veritas Christian Academy in Fletcher, NC, U.S.A.
Robert also serves as Professor of Great Books and Liberal Arts with the MA/PhD program at Faulkner University. He is greatly indebted to Mortimer J. Adler and Robert M. Hutchins for their contribution to Classical education in the modern world.
Please see his books, here:
Mortimer Adler: The Paideia Way of Classical Education (Giants in the History of Education) : Woods, Robert: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Dwelling on Delphi: Thinking Christianly about the Liberal Arts : Woods, Robert M.: Amazon.co.uk: Books
In this ninety first episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Jonathan Pageau and Dr Martin Shaw.
Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox and other traditional images. He also designs products, teaches, and makes fantastic videos for The Symbolic World that explore how ancient patterns can re-enchant our contemporary life.
Please check out Jonathan's channel:
youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau
Martin is regarded as one of the most outstanding new teachers of the mythic imagination. Visiting fellow at Schumacher college in the U.K., he has also devised and lead the Oral Tradition course at Stanford university in the U.S.
He is the author of the award winning; A Branch from The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower, Scatterlings, Smoke Hole, and other classics. Martin now leads a bustling schedule of conferences, gatherings, and wilderness retreats over several continents.
You can see our first conversation, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=317oKruecaM Martin's website: drmartinshaw.com
In this ninetieth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Jonathan Pageau and Dr Martin Shaw.
Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox and other traditional images. He also designs products, teaches, and makes fantastic videos for The Symbolic World that explore how ancient patterns can re-enchant our contemporary life. Please check out Jonathan's channel: youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau
Martin is regarded as one of the most outstanding new teachers of the mythic imagination. Visiting fellow at Schumacher college in the U.K., he has also devised and lead the Oral Tradition course at Stanford university in the U.S. He is the author of the award winning; A Branch from The Lightning Tree, Snowy Tower, Scatterlings, Smoke Hole, and other classics.
Martin now leads a bustling schedule of conferences, gatherings, and wilderness retreats over several continents.
One I want to mention, will involve Martin and Paul Kingsnorth at Benburb Priory in November. (Saturday 26th November 2022)
You can see our first conversation, here:
youtube.com/watch?v=o1nGKs2pl1w
Martin's website:
drmartinshaw.com
In this eighty-ninth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined by one of my favourite podcasters, Dr Spencer Klavan.
With a PhD in Classics, Spencer Klavan is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute.
Spencer's literary expertise is aided by his knowledge of many languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. As a scholar who enjoys exploring how great works of literature provide valuable insights into today's world, Klavan hosts Young Heretics every Tuesday.
Please see his website and some of his excellent articles, here:
youngheretics.com
claremontreviewofbooks.com/author/spencer-klavan
In this eighty-eighth episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Jonathan Pageau and Dr Bernardo Kastrup.
Jonathan carves Eastern Orthodox and other traditional images. He also designs products, teaches, and makes fantastic videos for The Symbolic World that explore how ancient patterns can re-enchant our contemporary life.
Please check out Jonathan's channel:
youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence).
As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on 'Scientific American,' the 'Institute of Art and Ideas,' the 'Blog of the American Philosophical Association' and 'Big Think,' among others.
In this eighty seventh episode in a series of discussions, I'm joined once more by Paul Kingsnorth and Carlo Lancellotti.
Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project.
Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered.
Follow him here:
paulkingsnorth.net
paulkingsnorth.substack.com
To see Paul and Martin Shaw on Saturday 26th November 2022, get tickets here:
benburbpriory.com/events
Prof. Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island. He received his Doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1998.
His main field of scholarship is the kinetic theory of plasmas and gravitating systems. He has also translated and edited two volumes of works of 20th-century Italian political philosopher Augusto Del Noce.
He is one of the organizers of the New York Encounter, a large week-end long cultural festival held once a year in New York City. He was one of the co-founders of the Crossroads Cultural Center, which for over fifteen years has been organizing cultural events around the country.
If you'd like to learn more about Carlo and his work, then please see the links below:
twitter.com/_clancellotti
https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/arti...
https://delnoceinenglish.files.wordpr...
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/de...