Aba, The Seed.

In Episode 2, I asked you to hold onto a word. The Monad. It has taken us three episodes to get here — because the Name needed its own episode, and the arrival of the Name needed its own episode. But today we finally open it. The Gnostics were a family of ancient spiritual movements who produced some of the most sophisticated theology in human history. Their primary texts — discovered near Nag Ham...

A few months ago, a friend sent me a book of wisdom, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran. That led me to another of Gibran's works: a collection of fictional accounts from people who encountered Jesus of Nazareth, written to capture his humanity. But as I read it, I kept feeling something I did not expect. The accounts felt — ethereal. Like they kept reaching past ordinary human experience toward so...

There is a moment in the book of Exodus where a man takes off his shoes. Not because he was asked to rest. Not because the ground was soft. Because he was standing on holy ground. His name was Moses. He was eighty years old. He had spent forty years in the desert tending someone else's sheep — a former prince of Egypt reduced to a shepherd in Midian. And then a bush caught fire. And did not b...

What Physics, Ancient Greece, and a Babel Story All Say About Jesus. Last time, I asked a question I was told not to ask as a child.  Who made God? Today I want to ask a different question. One that science, philosophy, and ancient theology have all been asking — in their own languages — for thousands of years. What is everything made of? Not just physically. Not just materially. What is the deepe...

My very first memory is a compound house in Accra. About 150 people living inside it — a village within a city. I was very small. My mother was turning fufu by the door. And while the adults around me talked about their mothers and their grandmothers, something happened in my brain. I started tracing. Her mother. Her mother's mother. All the way back. Until I hit the only name I knew at the b...