Mosaic Ark

Mosaic Ark

By Rachel Fulton BrownReligion & SpiritualityChristianityHistory
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Mosaic Ark episodes

  • Luke 1:26-38

    The Ark is celebrating Advent season with a meditation on the reason for the season. So, is Christmas really paganism turned into a Christian holiday? The Professor reads from the third Advent homily of the Venerable Bede, the great English scholar and creator of Anglo-Saxon history. What did Bede understand about the significance of trees in the Christian world? And why did our Saviour come through a Burning Bush in Palestine, and not as a Godzilla-sized Messiah to stomp out the evil from the world? Light up your tree and join us for the Advent of the Light of the World. —Streamed December 13, 2023

    2 hr 5 min
  • Lord Verulam's Idols

    The Ark welcomes the Aetherczar on board again! Hans G. Schantz (scientist and author of The Wise of Heart, The Hidden Truth, and The Art & Science of Ultrawideband Antennas) joins us to discuss the Enlightened world of Sir Francis Bacon, Science and the cult of Scientism. How do our idols influence our ability to find or see truth? Is the pursuit of scientific knowledge the means and end of human life itself, and what kind of future do we face if Scientists become the managers of mankind’s existence? —Streamed December 6, 2023

    The Aetherczar’s Substack: https://substack.com/@aetherczar

    2 hr 1 min
  • The Book of the Name

    Professor Fulton Brown reads Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, in the hope of recovering the pleasure she had at being in on the mystery in graduate school, but what she learns is that things are not necessarily what they seem when someone insists the rose has no name. —Streamed November 30, 2023

    2 hr 24 min
  • Mind-hacking, Magic, and Meaning

    The Ark welcomes our guest Patrick Coffin aboard once more to talk about the art of direction! The DCR poets sit back to enjoy some of Patrick's mentalist card effects and the synchronicities between stories and magic. How does the structure of the story of Joseph show God's miraculous direction of history and the misdirection of Pharaoh's magicians? Can we find the theme of redemption through tragedy in Joseph’s tale of ascension in Egypt? Is the Trinity a magic trick, or is the Incarnation of God in Christ the key to unlocking the story of Creation? Join us as the Ark meditates on the magical and the miraculous. —Streamed November 22, 2023

    2 hr 26 min
  • The New Atlantis

    The Ark brings the definitive guide to predicting everything that will ever happen. How did we find this secret knowledge? RFB and Kilts dust off an old fable that describes the modern world, reading from Sir Francis Bacon's recipe book for Enlightenment. What kind of world have the Merchants of Light created? Does it seem familiar? Join us to discover the Science behind Draco Alchemicus. —Streamed November 15, 2023

    2 hr 16 min
  • The Lost Ark

    The Ark finally explains the Ark! Climb aboard with Professor Fulton Brown to raid the Bible for the mystery of the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Is it really lost and waiting to be dug up by an Indiana Jones, or have we found her already? Join us to dig for treasure and find the golden throne of the LORD. —Streamed November 8, 2023

    2 hr 1 min
  • The Devil’s Contract
    The Ark brings streams for Halloween and All Saints with a spooky story for all. The Professor reads from her book Mary and the Art of Prayer the tale of Theophilus, a 6th century Christian who gets fired and then sells his soul to the Devil to get his old job back. What happens when Theophilus realises he made a big mistake? Join the Ark for a journey of penance to God, pleading with the Mother of Christ and shredding up those bad contracts. —Streamed November 1, 2023
    2 hr 1 min
  • The Golden Fleece
    The Ark lands Down Under, as Kilts attempts to bring everybody into Dreamtime and deliver a coherent history of Australia with the help of RFB who keeps us all anchored in a straight timeline. Starting in the bush where the White Man lost his ability to speak English, Kilts takes us on a tour of the Australian convicts arriving in chains, colonial struggles to claim the continent, fighting wars for Empire, striking gold, becoming White, slave trades and sugar plantations, Jewish war heroes and a formal policy of White supremacy ended by the importation of non-white Europeans. Did you think it would be straightforward? Welcome to Australia. —Streamed October 25, 2023
    2 hr 11 min
  • The Mosaic Ark
    The Ark reflects on grammar and meaning as DCR finally rewrites the website to clarify our identity as poets and what we do. It was hard. So imagine how hard it is to describe the Incarnation of Christ. In this episode the Professor and the Pigeon invite you to enter the Mosaic Ark and experience a Medieval and mystical experience of the Scriptures: the Holy Bible as a kaleidoscope. How does the Virgin Mary completely change the way Christians see the story of Creation and the Incarnation? What does it feel like for the Bible to be experienced like the spherical entertainment dome in Las Vegas? Enter into the poetic with us, and experience a moment in the Mosaic Ark. —Streamed October 18, 2023
    2 hr
  • King of the Jews
    The Ark returns for part two of our meditation on Jesus Christ Superstar, in the wake of the war that has broken out between Israel and Palestine. After watching confusing scenes of revellers partying at a festival on the Gaza border which was reported to have turned into massacre, we ask why is the Holy Land so important for imperial powers that this place seems eternally conflicted?Will the dance floor of the empires ever find peace? Join us as we ask what Christ was doing when He decided to go into Jerusalem for the Passion Week and let His own people crown Him with thorns and hail Him 'King of the Jews'. —Streamed October 11, 2023
    2 hr 13 min

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Join Professor Rachel Fulton Brown and her crew for a guided tour of the history, culture, and mythology of the medieval and postmodern West. Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Mythopoeia,” our mission…