322 - Janus, the Two-Faced God of January
For my last video of 2023, I discuss the pagan god Janus, after whom the month of January is named; why he has two faces, how it’s related to this time of year, the winter solstice, Christmas, and the...
30 Dec 202311min
321 - Why Angels Appeared to Shepherds on Christmas
This video takes a close look at one sentence in the Christmas story. A great company of angels appeared to the shepherds in the field to announce the birth of Christ, and they sang, “Glory to God in ...
22 Dec 202315min
320 - Richard Rohlin - The Universal History of Christmas
In this episode of the Universal History podcast, Richard Rohlin and I discuss Christmas, why it looks the way it does, how Christmas developed into what we have today, and why you absolutely should c...
14 Dec 20231h 33min
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 rev...
5 Dec 202314min
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, ca...
30 Nov 20231h 26min
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, ...
24 Nov 202348min
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 i...
16 Nov 20231h 3min
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 Chri...
9 Nov 20231h 24min
