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Rod and Kale meetup to discuss all things TGE after Rod's travel sagas land him back in England and then Budapest.
 
Topics covered, in order:
- Oxford and Cambridge adventures; no more atheists
- WEIRD folks are the outliers who must contend with the robustness of belief
- insufficiency of pure materialism
- snuff with Cardinal Muller
- English Christianity, Malcolm Guite and Martin Shaw's conversion to the "true myth"
- liturgies and Christian dreaming
- Thin Spaces and Thin Experiences
- "re-wilding" of Christianity
- necessity for metaphysics and the insufficiency of mere politics
- policy disputes as a substitute for real talk about what we are for
- importance of attention
- lost America and the return of the 80's
- dignity done: Tiara Mack and performative senatorial twerking
- divorce and the Dark Wood
 
LINKS:
Read and subscribe to Kale's new substack 
Read and subscribe to Rod's substack 
Mary Harrington on Satanism