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36- The Problem with Monotheism | Santa and the Tooth Fairy Pt. 2
The idea of Monotheism vs. Polytheism is an inadequate way of describing reality. When we view the world as hierarchies of principalities which poin…
6 years, 10 months ago
35- Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy Exist
We help people understand how beings that are not concrete and measurable, can nonetheless exist, and inevitably so. Santa Claus and the Tooth Fai…
7 years ago
34- Food, Sex and Communion
Explaining some of the symbolic relationships between eating, the fall of Adam, sex and how all of these elements come together in the sacrament of c…
7 years ago
33- The Langauge of Creation | with Matthieu Pageau
Matthieu Pageau's book, The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis is now available on Amazon. Matthieu and I discuss the impetus for wri…
7 years ago
32- Zombies, Postmodernism and Art
Expanding on a talk I gave last year called Pentecost for the Zombie Apocalypse, I discuss the meaning of the zombie and the monster in general as a …
7 years, 1 month ago
31- A Guide to Turning Postmodernism Against Itself
I look at some aspects in the deconstruction project of Jacques Derrida and give a few strategies for taking the upside world created by postmodernis…
7 years, 1 month ago
30 - Cognitive Science and the Sacred
John Vervaeke is a cognitive scientist and psychologist who teaches at the University of Toronto. He has won several teaching awards and is seen as a…
7 years, 1 month ago
29- Garments of Death and Garments of Light
In the Christian tradition, it is said that Adam and Eve were covered garments of light or garments of glory before the fall. After the fall, they a…
7 years, 1 month ago
28- Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau Q&A at Seattle Conference - Oct. 2017
This is the Q&A given at the Northwest Catholic Family Education Conference on October 27-28, 2017. The speakers in this Q&A are Jordan Peterson, Jon…
7 years, 2 months ago
27- Sacred Space in Secular Terms
Sacred spaces are not arbitrary, but are rather constructed in a particular way which show us what they are and also show us how space itself can bec…
7 years, 2 months ago