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The Ascent of Alexander the Great
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...
How The Scientific Revolution Changed Our Worldview
In this article, I explore how I think the material worldview cuts in half, flips inside-out, and turns upside-down the spiritual worldview. As our knowledge expands in all directions thanks to artificial ways of documenting and distributing information, we are...
Accelerationism and Dancing with Death
This post is a transcript of a video from April 2019. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. In the past few years, we’ve seen in certain circles – both rightwing and leftwing – a resurgence of something called accelerationism,...
In Remembrance: Menin Gate at Midnight
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...
The Meaning of Vampires
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...
Investigating Miracles With Lewis and Vervaeke
In his book Miracles, C.S. Lewis puts forward a symbolic worldview that provides a rich framework to explain Christ’s miracles. The book is divided into two broad sections, one for the theoretical background, set against naturalism, and one to explain the place of...
The Entire Cosmos in the Parable of the Sower
This is a transcript from a video released in February 2020. Thanks to Heather Lee for the transcription and JP Marceau for the edition. The parable of the sower is one of Christ’s most known parables. Everybody has heard that story. There’s something very interesting...
How Can We Find Our Purpose Again?
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 similar things. Before COVID...
The Pattern of Water as Death and Chaos
One of the problems with symbolism is that when people hear symbolic interpretations for the first time, they can often feel like the person doing the interpreting is jumping all over the place. However, for those who have developed a sense for the underlying...
Narcissus: Scapegoat or Sacrifice?
Long ago, a boy grew up so beautiful that he met a terrible death, made worse because everyone said it was his own fault. The myth of Narcissus has come down to us as a cautionary tale about a singular youth in love with his reflection. Examined more closely, the...