In this episode, we continue our next miniseries with Wez Hitzke talking about the Catholic worldview.

We discuss the strengths of protestant believers and the elements of protestant churches that Wez commends.

Among the strengths mentioned are community engagement, interaction with the scriptures, and ownership over one's beliefs

Points of conversation:

Catholicism, Protestantism, Church, Christian Life, Commitment to Truth, How Protestant thought helped Wez become Catholic.

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In this episode, we continue our next miniseries with Wez Hitzke talking about the Catholic worldview.

We discuss why Wez decided to embrace the whole church rather than just pick and choose the bits that he could assimilate with Protestantism.

We mention the Catholic tradition and the weight that comes with the Catholic imagination and a sacramental understanding of the world. 

And, we talk about The Lord of the Rings; which probably goes without saying by this point.

Points of conversation:

Worldview, beauty, Transcendentalism, The Lord of the Rings, the Eucharist, Sacraments, Tradition

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In this episode, we start our next miniseries with Wez Hitzke talking about the Catholic worldview.

We discuss Wez's personal conversation story of being raised as an evangelical, pentecostal protestant who was severely anti-catholic to joining the Catholic Church. We talk about how our lived experience combats a purely rational understanding of the world.

Points of conversation:

Worldview, beauty, Transcendentalism, Dr William Lane Craig, Peter Kreeft, C.S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton

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In this episode, we finish the miniseries by discussing 3 of our favourite scenes in Shakespeare.

The reoccurring theme of how we as humans can be led to perceive the Thou/You as an Object/it and the remedy to such perception is discussed.

Points of conversation:

Shakespeare, the Basilisk's Eye, Roger Scruton, Deontology, Romeo & Juliet, A Winter's Tale, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Comedy, Love, Teenage Angst, & more!

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In this episode, we put 4 of our favourite of Shakespeare's villains (Iago, Shylock, Claudius & Iachimo) against each other and see who comes out on top.

Whether their motives are deeply evil or selfishly human, these Shakespearean characters always prove to fuel interesting conversation.

In the second episode of season 2, crowd favourite Difff Crowther returns to continue the discussion of two of his big passions: Shakespeare & humoralism.

In this episode we discuss the sin of Acedia, humoralism, and demonic influence in three of Shakespeare's tragedies: Macbeth, King Lear, and Timon of Athens

Shakespeare, humoralism, acedia, sin, modern and medieval worldviews, worldly despair, demons, & more.

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In the first episode of season 2, crowd favourite Difff Crowther returns to discuss two of his big passions: Shakespeare & humoralism.

In this episode we cover the groundwork for what will be a continuing discussion on the representation of the humors (black bile/melancholy, yellow bile/choleric, blood/sanguine, and Phlegm/Phlegmatic) in Shakespeare and what it can teach us about our own lives.

Shakespeare, humoralism, modern and medieval worldviews, dualism, materialism, acedia, and sin.

On this episode, we sit down with Dr Paul Tyson to look at his recently published book 7 Brief Lessons on Magic. 

We discuss questions such as: What exists beyond the measurable, material, and mathematically modelable reality? How do we interpret that which is beyond scientific knowledge? IS MAGIC REAL? 

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In this episode we sit down with Dr Jonathan Cole & Dr Simon Kennedy to discuss Edmund Burke's thoughts on politics. We talk about political change, conservative philosophy and the role that prudence plays in good political change.

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