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...
by Michael Dunn | Nov 10, 2020 | Architecture, Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Visual Arts
On a summer evening in July 1927, an artist went for a walk outside the city of Ypres, Belgium. By chance, he spoke to a passerby whose words inspired his best-known painting, a work that symbolically brought fact and meaning together.Will Longstaff, born in...
by Jonathan Pageau | Oct 31, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Talks
This post is the transcript of a video from October 2019. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and Gareth Boyd for the edition. The idea of blood-sucking creatures has been around for quite a while. It is there in most cultures, but what I want to look at in...
by Nicholas Kotar | Oct 19, 2020 | Articles, Folk Stories & Traditions, Novels, Theory
Everyone’s talking about it. Doubtless you’ve heard.. This pandemic we’re going through… might be the best thing that has happened to us. Now, hear me out. People as respected as Michael Hyatt and as intelligent as Cal Newport have said...