Modise Sekgothe & Rabindranath Tagore

"A subtle seduction, singing, soothsaying..." - Faswillah Nattabi🕸️ 

"The cloth that seals society's decay is folded neatly in the backbone of its collapse." - Jonathan Lefenya🕸️ 

"Our hair is tomorrow resting it's back on the gust of history." - Yamoria🕸️ 

Kazuo Ishiguro season keeps on truckin' into 2005's Never Let Me Go, perhaps his most widely read and equally widely loved novels. There are brain-donor clones drawing dank pepes, Ruth being a total b-word and -even though we are 100% anti-worldbuilding- some bad worldbuilding. M ... Show More

Happy April Fools! Joe talks about the awesome (and also kind of hilarious) stories of 4 martyrs and how the Church responded to their great sacrifice. Transcript: Joe: Joe-come back to pOpelESs ShAmeMeRY. I’m Will MEshiRE. And in honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought I’d share so ... Show More

(55:1) The Merciful One (55:2) has taught the Qur'an, (55:3) has created man, (55:4) and has taught him articulate speech. (55:5) The sun and the moon follow a reckoning, (55:6) and the stars and the trees all prostrate themselves, (55:7) and He has raised up the heaven and has s ... Show More

Today’s poem is I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. We’re taking a break this week, so we’re sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archive. This episode was originally released on May 14, 2024. In this episode, Major writes… “ ... Show More

It's chaos configuration as Eden, Gareth and Langdon sit down to discuss the...sort of good and very hyped Between Two Fires! And also argue about dark fantasy, Dark Souls, and listen to some sick doom metal. Music played: The Flight of Sleipnir - North https://theflightofsleipni ... Show More

“God, in his goodness and justice so much offended by our sins, had thus worn down the lands and kingdoms of the Christians.” That’s a quote from Prudentius of Troyes, who was struggling to explain why the Franks met abysmal failure every time they fought the Scandinavians. While ... Show More

(94:1) (O Prophet), Did We not lay open your breast (94:2) and relieve you of the burden (94:3) that had well-nigh broken your back? (94:4) And did We not exalt your fame? (94:5) Indeed, there is ease with hardship. (94:6) Most certainly, there is ease with hardship. (94:7) So, w ... Show More

As we end our week looking to Jesus, today we’ll explore one of my favorite aspects of his nature: his humility. Jesus, the King of all the earth, the one who has every reason to boast and show his power, chooses the path of humility, of submission, of lowering himself. We have s ... Show More

No matter how dirty with sin you are, through Christ you can see the light of God’s glory and believe. 

Claire and I weep over the end of Dante's sublime poem and try to describe, in some small way, the power of his mystical vision of unity for the modern reader.