The Pragmatic Mystic

Thoughts (formal and informal) about religion, art and philosophy, with an emphasis on patristic sources.

Religion, the arts, philosophy, culture... ...Foliis tantum ne carmina manda, ne turba volent rapidis ludibria ventis...

A Collection of Wanderings by Joe James

Exploring the lineaments of a new age.

'A fast-growing, easy-care climber with beautiful white trumpet-like flowers attractive to bees'.

We write articles explaining the ideas of history's great thinkers.

Michael Martin, Ph.D. on Sophiology and everything else.

Quiet moments of silence and stillness. A journal and occasional podcast on themes of silence, meditation, contemplation, and silent prayer.

cultivating the soul and the sacred

Essays, drawings, aphorisms, and musings on all things big and small regarding life, death, work, and God.

A personal bi-monthly page on the theory, practice, and symbolism of Christian iconography.

Counterintuitive. Looking again at fear, doubt, conflict, contradiction, contraries. Riffs... brief reflections. "Without Contraries is no progression." - William Blake ("The Marriage of Heaven and Hell")

A place for the outlaws of poetry and the written word.

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

The best literary and arts writing on the internet

Biblical scholarship, classics, theology, philosophy, popular culture, poetry, short stories, and gardening.

Seeking out streaks of the Eternal in all things

A companion to the Digital Jung Podcast. Reflections on living a symbolic life in a technological age. Jungian psychology, Mythology, Religion, Symbolism, and Meaning.

Politics. Culture. Sanity.

Do not be conformed to this world