Heavy Things Lightly
By John Heers
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This “Enlightened” New World utopia isn’t turning out to be all it was cracked up to be. Society is disenchanting, but are the only alternatives hiding out in the hills or burying yourself in books? With an air of levity and a touch of humor, John Heers teaches how to examine the confusing New World by calling upon the mind and wisdom of oft-forgotten Old. Heavy Things, Lightly.
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Online and American Orthodoxy w/ Fr. Paul Girgis
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May 08, 2026 |
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Time and Despondency w/ Nicole Roccas
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Pageau talks Hegseth, Pulp Fiction, Clown World, and more...
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Pete Hegseth, I'm not sure that was a prayer.
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Old Testament or No Testament War?
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Frederica Mathews Green | Art of the Tamada Talks
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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State of Reality (oh wait, Union) with Uncle Seth
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Eros Unbound: the story of Donald Marc Antony Trump
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Engaging the Other: Fr. Andrew Damick & Rev. Mike Landsman
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The Svanes: A Missionary Tale
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Wrestling the Tech Monster: James Poulos
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Alex Sorin seems too nice for debates
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Andrew McLuhan: Media, Modernity and The McLuhan Legacy
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Baby Jesus Night in America (aka Christicamfest)
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Romance and the Holidays with the Heers Girls
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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The End of Christicans? Lt. Colonel Dan Horst
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Old World Candace vs New World Whites
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Why Candace sounds crazy...but isn't.
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Ceremonial Magician Justine Alter
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Halloween, Martyrs, and the MAGA Men
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Dr. Ian McGilchrist Breaks the Light-O-Meter
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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We Are Not Alone - Grizwald Grim
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Uncle Seth is Mad About Charlie Kirk Stuff
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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It's Not What You Think It Is
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Man, Machine, and God: A Conversation with Paul Kingsnorth
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Battling Doomerism with DJ Melki Prophet
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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You Can Be a God. Bam!
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Heather Pollington - Waking Up English and Orthodox
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Frederica Mathews-Green Enters the Light-O-Meter
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Culture At the Crossroads with Fr. Christian Siskos of Noetic Spring
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Martyrdom, MAGA and the Epstein Files
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Is Nepotism the Next Great Business Model? - Nicholai Blasing
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Bazed Lit Analyzer - 10 Badass Christian Films You Should Watch
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Ilya Sutskever Is Not A Biological Computer...Even If He Wants to Be
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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John Hammond - American Orthodox Deep Dive
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Robert Jackson - Education Needs a Rethink
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Rod Dreher - Can We Live Without Lying?
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May 22, 2025 |
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A Supra Good Time
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May 07, 2025 |
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A Case for A.I.
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Can Anyone Be An Exorcist?
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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What's a Boomer Really?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Pet Mania Pt 2
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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ARC, Kingsnorth, and a small Georgian village
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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USAID: We Know All About It
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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More to Life than Stardom
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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We Need to Talk
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Uncle Seth Hates Stuff
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Church History is Wild
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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The Science Behind Orthodox Fasting
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Why is your dog in a stroller? Pet mania and the New World
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Sovereign State: Andrew Favorov
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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The Working Songwriter, Beer, and God: Joe Pug
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Pavel Schelin
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Miracles of Fasting
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Make America Joyful Again
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The End of Baseball
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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What is Marriage?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Road to Hell Ep. 4
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Jonathan Pageau
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Jordan Hall
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Knowledge vs Wisdom
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Simon Scionka
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Intentions, Outcomes, and CERN
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Uncle Seth: Light Person Extraordinaire Insults Our Listeners!
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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The Road to Hell
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Artistry and Aiming for the Higher Things
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Are Movies Redemptive?
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Problems with the Modern Notion of Race
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May 27, 2024 |
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Orphan X & Orphaned Cultures w/ Gregg Hurwitz
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May 23, 2024 |
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How Not to be a Communist or a Capitalist...Somehow. Feat Fr. Turbo
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May 10, 2024 |
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Wrestling the Spirits of the Old & New Worlds
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Canadian Education Dilemma
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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An Unforgettable Story w/ Vesper Stamper
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Is Classical Education Elitist?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Justin Brierley and Re-Enchantment
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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State of the Pod 2024
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Jordan Hall
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Libertarianism Isn't Enough
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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True Education is Classical Education
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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What Is The World - A Christian Perspective
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Martin Shaw: Wild Storytelling
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Malcolm Collins: The Population Crisis
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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What is the World Pt. 3 - Philosophy Answers! | WAWTAR #163
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Roundtable: Fr. Sil, Neil DeGraide, & Topher Grant - What a True Feast Means | WAWTAR #162
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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What is the World Pt. 2 - Does math define everything? | WAWTAR #161
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Conversations: Shamans, Magic, and Rationalism with Dr. James Mohebali | WAWTAR #160
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Conversations: Loren Wilkinson | WAWTAR #159
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Uncle Seth and War | WAWTAR #158
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What is the World? | WAWTAR #157
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Conversations: Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy - On Christian Nonviolence | WAWTAR #156
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Conversations: Fr. Silouan Justiniano - The New World Isn't So Bad John | WAWTAR #155
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Conversations: David Patrick Harry @ChurchoftheEternalLogos | WAWTAR #154
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Bathing, Baptism, & Orthodoxy | WAWTAR #153
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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The Symbolic World of Water | WAWTAR #152
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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John Heers at Montanika | WAWTAR #151
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Bathing as Ritual | WAWTAR #150
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Bathing and Baptism | WAWTAR #149
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Just...War. | WAWTAR #148
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Conversations: Kilts Khalfan | WAWTAR #147
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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War as Martyrdom | WAWTAR #146
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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War & Heaven | WAWTAR #145
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Total War | WAWTAR #144
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Usury at Last | WAWTAR #143
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Uncle Seth and A.I. | WAWTAR #142
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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From Fearing to Embracing Usury | WAWTAR #141
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Usury & the Old World | WAWTAR #140
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Conversations: Graham Pardun | WAWTAR #139
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Magic Never Really Left... | WAWTAR #138
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How the West Rid Itself of Magic | WAWTAR #137
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May 31, 2023 |
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Conversations: Fr. Peter Heers | WAWTAR #136
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May 24, 2023 |
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Quantifying Religion | WAWTAR #135
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May 16, 2023 |
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White People JuJu | WAWTAR #134
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May 09, 2023 |
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Paul Kingsnorth: The End of Anthropology | WAWTAR #133
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Ben Stamper - Filmmaking & The Making of the Soul | Immersion Series #7 | WAWTAR #132
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Austin Klise - Re-immersion | WAWTAR #131
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Esther Lightcap Meek - The Act of Knowing | WAWTAR #130
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Texas Slim - Back to the Roots of Health | WAWTAR #129
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Joshua Gibbs - What is the Enlightenment? | WAWTAR #128
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Rogan, Walsh, & Mismarriage | WAWTAR #127
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Reisha Perlmutter - The Deep End of Art | Immersion Series #6 | WAWTAR #126
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Fabio Leite - Brazil, Syncretism and Being All Things at Once | WAWTAR #125
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Uncle Seth and the Great Experiment | WAWTAR #124
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Voice of the New World | WAWTAR #123
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Arthur Kwon Lee - Towards a Transcendent Art
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Dr Timothy Patitsas - The Ethics of Beauty
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Nick Kotar - Art and a Unifying Vision
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Tim Berg - Test Piloting and Detached Observation (Immersion Series #5)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Neil DeGraide - Storytelling in the New World (Immersion Series #4)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Fr. Turbo & Cyprian - Path to Illumination
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Kilts Khalfan - The State of the World
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Backhoe People
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Jimbob - Making Sense of the Old World
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Jonathan Pageau - The Fool, Tradition, and the Church
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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William Twyaigize - Surviving Rwanda
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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What's a Desk?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Creation Begins with Sacrifice - Daniel Padrnos
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Jonathan Jackson - Art, Film, and Orthodoxy (Immersion Series #3)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Do You Believe In the Bible?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Uncle Seth and the Alien Invasion
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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The Equality Binge Epoch
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Derran Reese - Protestantism and the New World
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Jeremy Firth - The Mormon Missionary Experience (Immersion Series #2)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Fr. Peter Heers & Fr. Silouan Justiniano - Perennialism Pt. 2
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Fr. Peter Heers & Fr. Silouan Justiniano - Perennialism Pt. 1
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Daniel Padrnos - The Field Worker Experience (Immersion Series #1)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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The Immersion Series - An Intro
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Kilts Khalfan - Vending Machine Culture
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Paul Kingsnorth - Entering Into Orthodoxy
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Raskolnikov and Ozark
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Uncle Seth and Uber Monsters
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May 25, 2022 |
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Fr. Hans Jacobse - The Structure of Reality
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May 11, 2022 |
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Death and Dying
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May 04, 2022 |
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The NBA and the Old World
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Universal Storytelling
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Get Off My Lawn!
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Jonathan Pageau - An Honest Conversation
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Richard Rohlin - The English & the Old World
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Death of Meekness
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Uncle Seth and the God-O-Meter
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Fr. Deacon Ananias - The State of Science
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Monty Lynn, Rob Gailey, & Derran Reese - What's a Missionary?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Becoming King of Your Castle
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Whoopi and Race
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Symbolism of the Supra
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Postmodernism and the Old World
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Death in the Garden
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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America with Uncle Seth
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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What are Kids Anyways? (Pt. 2)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Dangerous Stories with Nicholas Kotar
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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What are Kids Anyways?
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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COVID & Shay's Rebellion
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Alone Time
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Love Based Success?
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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What's Happening with Foreign Aid?
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Dowry & Your 401K
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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From the Field Series: Isabella Copeland
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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What is a Company?
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Men Holding Hands
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Searching for Empathy with Uncle Seth
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Necessary Waste?
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Aidan Hart: From Material to Spiritual (OAF Series #2)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Slave Castles and History's Leftovers
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Jonathan Jackson: Roots of Beauty (OAF Series #1)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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La Tanya Hall: The Jazz Question
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Fr. John Strickland: What is Secular?
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Tying Up Loose Ends with Uncle Seth
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Resolving the Tension: An FTF Roundtable
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Baseball and the End of Civilization
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Paul Kingsnorth: Beyond the Protest
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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What's a Conspiracy Anyways?
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Richard Rohlin: The Immersive Mindset
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Andrew Martin: Corporate Religion
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Fr. Peter Heers: Martyrdom & Modernity
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Gregory David Roberts: Becoming Fully Human
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Evan Amato - Can the West Be Rewired?
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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The Artistic and Spiritual Impact of the Pandemic
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May 25, 2021 |
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Is Evolution the Light People Creation Story? Pt. 2
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May 18, 2021 |
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Is Evolution the Light People Creation Story? Pt. 1
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May 11, 2021 |
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Can New Worlders Be Grateful?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Uncle Seth Calculates Death
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Eugene Vodolazkin: An Interview
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Masks and the Liminal
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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What is a City?
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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What is Capitalism?
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Roifield Brown on Politics and the Notion of Being Black
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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"Profikumus Moray Irretente" and Pearls of Wisdom
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Uncle Seth Cancels Star Wars
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Sandy Koufax, Kyrie Irving and Sitting Down
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Time, Timelines and What's the Common Era Anyway?
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Symbolic Thinking w/ Jonathan Pageau: An Interview
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Priests, Priestesses, Protesters and the Pigpen
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Eden Revisted Podcast interviews John Heers
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Mets, Jets, Greens, & Blues
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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The Nashville Bomb and Books of Fiction
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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The Uncle Seth Holiday Special!
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Freedom is Confusing - Pt. 2
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Freedom is Confusing - Pt. 1
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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What Is Education?
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Sweden, Outer Security, and Joe O
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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What is a Vote?
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Election Day Special w/ Uncle Seth!
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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What is the Economy?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Masks, Aristotle, and Idiots
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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What Is Change?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Live From Sierra Leone!
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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A Conversation with Nicholas Kotar
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Science and Magic: Are They the Same?
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Interview with Fr. Silouan Justiniano
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Toxic Masculinity
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Orthodoxy and the Old World - An interview with Fr. Peter Heers
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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What's a Human Right Anyways?
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Light People and the Myth of Teenage Rebellion
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Fake News, Oaths and Alligator Bladders
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Bye Bye Columbus, Hello New Funky Griot
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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KANYE!, Eugenics, and Tasty Bacon
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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The Light-O-Meter
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Marriage, Gay Marriage and Body Parts
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Marriage & Love So Fine
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Venmo Race Reparations and the Heart
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Let's Talk about Race
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Jun 11, 2020 |