Preliminary discussions on living toward the age to come.
We discuss John's art, his dissertation, “Communication & Control”, his “Theses on Punk Rock”, and briefly his “Fifteen Suppositions”. We also discuss Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Theodor Adorno, Michael Pisaro, Jacob Taubes, Simone Weil, Georges Bataille, Sergii Bulgakov, David Bentley Hart, Jordan Daniel Wood, St. Isaac of Nineveh, Jean-Phillipe Rameau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and more.
How should we understand Marx's union of socialism and republicanism?
How should christians respond to the present distress?
Why has the European Union made the mediterranean a graveyard?
What does it mean for Christ to recapitulate human history? Featuring Fr. Jacob Siemens
What does the Thomas Achord and Stephen Wolfe saga teach us about contemporary American Evangelicalism? Featuring Rev. Benjamin Marsh and Jacob Huneycutt.
How does God relate to the world? Featuring Jordan Daniel Wood
How does God relate to the world? Featuring David Bentley Hart
How do we follow the Way in the postmodern world? Featuring Keanu Heydari & Mason Mennenga.
Symphonia or caesaropapism? Featuring Henry Hopwood-Phillips. His article: https://thecritic.co.uk/russian-orthodoxy-on-trial
How do different forms-of-life cross-pollinate? Featuring Antonio Vargas & Ryan Haecker
How can traditional communiteis overcome the limits of sectarianism?
Why can't some see Christ in his face?
How can Christains recover their messianic vocation?
How is universal restoration accomplished in messianic time through sophianic politics?
How can we relate to the decline and fall of Christendom?
How do we relate to difference and continuity?
How can we restore our relationship to the world, others, and to God?
Which is more corrosive to traditional forms of life?
What are the implications of UFOs in the news and ETs in our worldviews?
What does it mean to put our lives in common?
How can we the rootless put down roots?
Refusing bare life and the Empire State of mind.
After a year of isolation and despair, what can we do?