During Holy Week, the Orthodox faithful will see several icons in the center of the church being commemorated. These icons speak to each other regarding their elements and brought together with other liturgical elements, they participate in a powerful symphony of meaning.

Accelerationism, the notion that we should aggravate the current chaos in order for things to break down and bring about a better world is an idea that has been resurfacing now for some time. We look at the issues it can bring about on a social, but also a personal scale.

The recurring image of the mass shooter is a symptom of celebrity culture, where our attention, rather than being taken by our transcendent purpose and common identity is rather tyrannized y a succession of excesses.

In the wake of many attacks on Jordan Peterson, I look at the danger of reducing symbolic structures to their historical association with groups, schools of thinking and occult personalities.

I discuss the symbolism of Spider-Man into The Spider-Verse with Thomas Wijnaendts van Resandt of the Storytellers channel. We look at how the movies shows us the manner in which we enter and participate in a common identity.

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick is a priest, an author, a podcaster and avid fan of JRR tolkien. Having recently started a Tolkien themed podcast named Amon Sul with Ancient Faith, Fr. Andrew and I discuss stories, liturgy and what it means to be at the threshold of the sacred.

Looking at how Twitter and other social media are used in the social narrative can help us understand what a reign of chaos looks like.

Every month I do a live Q&A with patrons. Once in a while I make it public.

The music at the opening is the Russian Eastern Overture, by Rimsky Korsakov.

One of the criticisms I get is how by saying something is symbolic, I am somehow suggesting that it is not describing an event in the world. This stems from a deep misunderstanding of what symbolism is. Symbolism is not so much an arbitrary allegorical representation of something, but rather the very pattern by which we notice meaning.