by Richard Rohlin | Jan 8, 2021 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
In my previous article (The Symbolism of St. Dionysius the Areopagite) I argued that the vita1 of St. Dionysius contains within it a fractal pattern which addresses both the controversies around his historicity and works, as well as the struggles that we face when we...
by Kathryn Wilson | Dec 25, 2020 | Bible, Folk Stories & Traditions, Theory
While I’m writing this, we’re half-way through December and the Spirit of Christmas is at hand! But what is the Spirit of Christmas? What does it mean that it is at hand? Can we impact it – make it grow or shrink perhaps? Can we participate with it in some manner?...
by Kathryn Wilson | Dec 17, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Have you made a deal with the Devil? Probably not. Let’s be honest, neither you nor I are likely powerful enough to warrant his attention. But that doesn’t mean you haven’t been brokering deals with principalities. Most of us do. I dare say, all of us must. Let’s...
by Richard Rohlin | Dec 6, 2020 | Folk Stories & Traditions, Liturgy
The life of St. Dionysius the Areopagite represents several challenges to the modern mind. There are, of course, a whole bevvy of scholars who question the idea of whether such a man even existed, still more who hold that the important corpus of works traditionally...
by Sam Buntz | Nov 23, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
Computers are haunted objects – but they are not haunted by the same specters that frequent the halls of Victorian mansions, Southern plantations, or castles in the deep, dark Bavarian Forest. The past haunts those locales, but computers typically present themselves...
by Jonathan Pageau | Nov 20, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions
This post is a transcript of a video from January 2020. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. In 2019, just before the end of the year, in November and the beginning of December, I went on this strange binge of creating different...
