Love and the Cosmos

In the second installment of our year-end Q&A, we work our way through questions about the Last Night in Heaven [[Extinction qua extinction]], the Internet, the Lutheran-to-New Age spectrum and its discontents, hope, addiction, the gnosis of psychoactive substances, therapy versus confession, a…

In this belated V-day episode, we talk astrology and its abolition, the secularization of mystery cults, Sophia’s creation of the demiurge, gnosticism and expanded universe Christianity, mining for nuggets of Spirit, escaping the Tinder kenoma, lovesickness, the insanity and mystery of romance, uni…

In this episode we discuss the experience of Doubt. We talk about St. John of the Cross and his Dark Night of the Soul; the gift of darkness and the image of God as a “cloud of unknowing;” Utah, Mormonism, and prophetic Americana, Mark Wahlberg’s “lenten prayer challenge”; Ramsey Dukes’s SSOTBME;…

We talk to our friend Tyler about his journey of faith — beginning with communalist anarchy and leading to Catholicism — as well as his experiences in the Jesuit novitiate. We ask him about this “trad” thing everyone keeps talking about, and we learn about faith versus works, sacramental love, subj…