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I look at the pattern emerging from the recent viral videos of people licking ice cream, spitting into containers in stores and putting the items back on the shelf.

Laughter, distraction, exceptions, are all images of the edge of a world, but is there a way for laughter to play a useful part in living on the edge.

I go through the image of the Garden of Eden presented in St-Ephrem the Syrian’s Hymns on Paradise, discussing how it is a structure of being and experience and relating it to other works, especially St-Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses.

An interview with Left Foot Media.

I discuss the medieval problem of cannibal babies and who’s body will be resurrected if a person eats another person. I then look at what that means in terms of ontology and normal causality.

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Avengers Endgame flips the theme of human sacrifice in Infinity War and presents us with a story of self-sacrifice.

As we watch our culture become blander and less cohesive, we need to ask the hardest questions, about distraction and entertainment, about the possibility of participation and how this relates to liturgy as the ultimate word of art.

Beyond giving us a coherent Christian mysticism, the Hesychastic tradition of the Christian East also offers a general anthropology, a vision and hierarchy of the human person which can give us a way to live in the world today.From May 2019 Shared Inheritance...