Articles
The Way To The Country From Which The Shadows Fall: Part, The Second
This will be the second, and final installment in a short series dealing with The Golden Key by George MacDonald.
The Symbolism of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hamelin is a quaint little tourist town in the north-western state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Most of its tourism stems from the infamous folk tale of the pied piper, which also happens to be the most well-known German legend of all time, most notably thanks to the...
Turning to Stone
About twelve years ago in a coal mine over half a mile deep beneath Donetsk, in Ukraine, workers found a wheel embedded in the hard sandstone, reckoned by geologists to be about 300 million years old. The original wood from which the wheel had been made had turned to...
A Church in the Landscape
Saint Paul wrote that we could see and understand God’s eternal power and divine nature through the things he had made…
Washing Feet
Transcript of a Patreon-only video on the feet washing rituals that recently occurred in George Floyd protests.
Perception Is Symbolic
I explain how we develop our symbolic perception, from simple objects to narratives, and maybe the Divine.
The Symbolic Structure of Movies – Batman v. Superman (2016) – Part I
Although the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (BvS, 2016) only came out a few days prior to this analysis being initially written…
Of Crowns and Horns
Of Crowns and Horns Crowns and horns are two interrelated symbols. Their similarity in structure and appearance begs the questions: how are they related; to what degree are they related; and how do their differences manifest different patterns? This essay will attempt...
The Way To The Country From Which The Shadows Fall: Part, The First
A Symbolic Meditation on Hiroshima at 75: Divine-Human Transfiguration and Transhuman Disfiguration
We tend to forget that the advent of the Atomic Age, with the destruction of Hiroshima in a single bomb blast 75 years ago on August 6, 1945, was not greeted with dread so much as with wonder at mankind’s near-divine power over matter. For it was thought that man was...
- George MacDonald. The George MacDonald Treasury, page 197. Kahley House Publishing, 2007.[↩]