Modernist Fish

A discussion on the crises in the Church and world with TLMRyan & Michael Naaden, and how to fix it while being more hopeful and less divided when we all have different models of the crisis, which originally aired on Michael Naaden’s channel and which Stephen Kokx shouted out in his discussion yesterday with The Catholic Esquire . TLM_Ryan is on X at @TLM_Ryan and on YouTube at Pre-Conciliar R...

Michael Naaden at @RealSedePicante on YouTube and X and I chat about theology, Church politics, humorous Catholic influencers, the managerial bureaucratic anti-Church within the Church , the problems that have befallen Catholic Inc. and Trad Inc. ever since Pope Francis deranged Catholic media, how John Courtney Murray and LSD influenced Vatican II and the Novus Ordo , “End the Fed Save the Church...

Episode 3 of the Modernist Fish podcast is an interview with Orthodox catechumen Ian (a.k.a AverageSoutherner online). We met online earlier this week while debating some sedevacantists and had a great conversation on theology. Today we decided to have another about what unites and still divides us as Orthodox vs. Catholics, what is true vs. false ecumenism, the sad state of sedevacantists like th...

This is the audio version of Part III of a multi-part series as the whole James Lindsay saga is massive, and he, as well as his opponents, are crazily prolific. . Part I detailed the background of James Lindsay as well as arguments for what he is right about . Part II focused on where he and his much-loved vision of classical liberalism are wrong, or at least how he is much more paranoid than he s...

This is the audio version of the entirety of my series on James Lindsay, Charles Haywood, and the debate over the “woke right”.Links to written versions: Part I talks about the background of James Lindsay as well as arguments for what he is right about . (0:00-25:05 in this audio) Audio for Part I only Part II focuses on where he is wrong through flaws inherent in his praise of classical liberalis...

This is the audio version of Part II of a multi-part series as the whole James Lindsay saga is massive, and he, as well as his opponents, are crazily prolific. He has for example published over 272,000+ X posts (tweets). Part I detailed the background of James Lindsay as well as arguments for what he is right about . This, Part II will focus on where he is wrong, or at least where he is much more...

Episode 2 of the Modernist Fish podcast is about Jordan Peterson and how Christians ought to relate to him and to his work. This is the audio version of the show. You can watch the original video version on Rumble at https://rumble.com/c/c-7040750 or on YouTube here: Several diatribes against Jordan Peterson have been published online recently, bringing new criticism against the otherwise conserva...

This is an audio version of Part 1 of a multi-part series on James Lindsay and the “woke right” saga. The story is massive, because he, as well as his opponents, are crazily prolific. He has for example published over 272,000+ X posts (tweets).This, Part I details the background of James Lindsay as well as arguments for what he is right about. Part II will focus on where he is wrong, or at least w...

Episode 1 of the Modernist Fish podcast features discussion between James Green and Timothy Dominik about the relationship and differences between the Roman and Byzantine Rites, why Tim became Byzantine, the differing strengths and weaknesses of being one or the other, and what each Rite has to offer the other. We live-streamed our discussion originally on Rumble earlier today , but had some minor...

This is an audio version of “The Psychology and Anthropology of Compline.”This is also the soft launch of Grain of Wheat’s accompanying podcast Modernist Fish which I will officially launch soon alongside interviews and discussions about all the same topics covered on this site along with audio versions of some of the most popular essays, like this one. Here’s more about Modernist Fish, which will...