Podcast Episodes

319 - The Symbolism of Aliens

This is a repost of an older video published on this channel in 2018. We are reposting it because the original video was blocked by YouTube in several countries. Now also seems like a good time to re…

Published on 2 years ago

318 - Seraphim Hamilton - Re-Enchantment Now: Fairies, Aliens, the Occult, Prayer, and Divination

This is a repost of my recent discussion with Seraphim Hamilton on his YouTube channel. He asked me many good questions about universal history, re-enchantment, fairy tales, the occult, divination, c…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

317 - Fr. Joseph Lucas - Sacrifice: The Paradox of Salvation

Fr. Joseph Lucas published a thesis on the question of sacrifice, called Offerer and Offering: Cyril of Alexandria on Jewish and Christian Sacrifice. In this video, we discuss sacrifice in Scripture,…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

316 - DC Schindler - The Duality of Art (Climbing Mt Sophia)

This is a repost of a great discussion I had on the Climbing Mt. Sophia channel alongside DC Schindler. We discuss beauty, art, freedom, techne and technology, primarily exploring the question: what …

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

315 - Fr. Turbo Qualls and David Patrick Harry - Beauty and the Ascetic

For this week’s podcast, I sat down with Fr. Turbo Qualls and David Patrick Harry to discuss beauty and iconography in the Orthodox Christian tradition, why beauty is a part of the Church despite Chr…

Published on 2 years, 1 month ago

314 - Dr Martin Shaw - The New Odyssey

Dr. Martin Shaw will be a speaker at the Symbolic World Summit next year in Tarpon Springs, Florida. In this conversation we discuss pagan stories, including The Odyssey and The Iliad, our current mo…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

313 - Fr. Andrew Damick - Redeeming Pagan Symbolism

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick is Chief Content Officer of Ancient Faith Ministries. He has been podcasting since 2007 and is the host of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Orthodox Engagement, and Roads from Emma…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

312 - Kendelle Hoyer - Behind the Big Screen

Kendelle Hoyer is passionate about storytelling and art, which has been a life-long pursuit since childhood when she decided she wanted to work in animation. Since then, Kendelle has developed her cr…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

311 - Ritualized Behavior From Animals to Church

There is a tendency to isolate religious behavior from other human behavior, which can make religious behavior seem arbitrary or ridiculous. In this week's video, I argue that the best way to underst…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

310 - Annie Crawford - C.S. Lewis on Progress, AI, and Gender

Episode 310

I had a great discussion with Annie Crawford. She’s written two wonderful articles for the Symbolic World Blog and is offering a course on C.S. Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy on the Symbolic World website. Ch…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago