TheCommonToad

Fire or Fire: A Question Answered

As for us, now will we come to thee, our Consuming Fire. And thou wilt not burn us more than we can bear. But thou wilt burn us. George...

Conversations: Martin Shaw - Until the Illumination Arrives

Martin Shaw is, among many things, a writer, mythologist, teacher, and rite-of-passage guide. He's director of the Westcountry School of...

Conversations: Malcolm Guite - Lifting the Veil, and Keeping the Flowering Thorn

In this episode I am joined again by the poet-priest-scholar Malcolm Guite for a wonderful wide discussion about imagination,...

Fauci, Kingsnorth, and the Russian Cosmists

This painting of the Tower of Babel may look familiar to you, but you would be understandably mistaken to think it is by Pieter Brueghel....

Conversations: Mark Vernon - On Dante, Barfield, and the Possibility of Light Getting In

Mark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist interested in topics of psychology, spirituality, and our inner lives. He has written an...

Pondering The Metaverse and Adorable Robotic Dogs

“Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the...

Poem: Sunday Walk

Wonders are folded into every corner of the earth In a forest path this morning in the sun I saw the hand of the wind clean the trees of...

Variations on a Theme of: Free Will

In the dreamy realms of amateur philosophy, when it becomes clear that an answer to a Big Question about life is not forthcoming, it is...

Conversations: Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel - The Lasting of the Mohegans

Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel is an award winning author, screenwriter, Medicine Woman and tribal historian for the Mohegan tribe of...

Conversations: Paul VanderKlay - Good Faith

Paul VanderKlay is a third-generation pastor living in California and a member of the Christian Reformed Church. He has a Youtube channel...

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