Mysterium Tremendum

C. S. Lewis wrote that, "What flows into you from the myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and, therefore, every myth becomes the ...

25 Feb 202212min

It's Valentine's Day! St. Valentine's Day can be a stressful time for a lot of people, apparently. Those in relationships don't want to disappoint, those not in relationships are depressed. If you ...

11 Feb 202215min

C. S. Lewis wrote, "This is our dilemma—either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste—or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge because we are in an experience or to lack another ...

11 Feb 202215min

The Modern and the post-Modern age is one of Dogmas unrecognized, consequences ignored, and paradoxes unseen. These are all confusions due to a disordered or absent eye for the empirical. Join us as w...

28 Jan 202217min

In this episode we look at Chesterton's contention that common sense, or sanity, involves reason, but not reason alone. Chesterton wrote that, "the madman is not the man who has lost reason. The mad...

14 Jan 202218min

Happy New Year! In this episode, we make an argument: New Years, if it is to be meaningful, must be seen in the light of the Christmas season. Cut out of its context, it is shrouded in deep black; i...

31 Dec 202116min

Merry Christmas! This week we reflect upon the second greatest Christmas story of all time, namely, Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Why do Advent and Christmas lend themselves to ghost stories? ...

24 Dec 202119min

G. K. Chesterton wrote that, "if disease is beautiful, it is generally someone else's disease. A blind man may be picturesque, but it requires two eyes to see the picture. And similarly even the wilde...

17 Dec 202115min