The Diner

Welcome to the Diner! Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In today’s episode we continue to explore the idea of Internet-as-Fairyland, and talk about how the life of abstraction is not limited to the internet. We end...

Welcome to the Diner! Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In today’s episode we continue to explore the idea of Internet-as-Fairyland, and we talk about why and how we turn to the internet, especially when we’re bored...

Welcome to the Diner! Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In today’s episode we begin to explore the idea of Internet-as-Fairyland, sparked by an essay, penned by Katherine Dee , which is well summarized both here: Wh...

Welcome to season 3 of our podcast! This episode is the final part of the conversation that we had with Timothy G. Patitsas Here we talked a little bit about AI — what to make of it, how to think about it, and how to approach it in a beauty-first way — as well as economics, capitalism and how Lent ends in a failure for a reason. Enjoy the conversation, and join it in the comments! Dr. Timothy G. P...

Welcome to season 3 of our podcast! This episode is part of the conversation that we had with Timothy G. Patitsas Here we continued our thoughts about education and covered topics ranging from trades to biographies to beginning with problems rather than answers. Enjoy the conversation, and join it in the comments! Dr. Timothy G. Patitsas is the author of The Ethics of Beauty and can be found on su...

Welcome to season 3 of our podcast! This episode is part of the conversation that we had with Timothy G. Patitsas This episode is focused mostly on education and what it looks like to have a Beauty-first approach to it. We didn’t even bring up Charlotte Mason by name(!), but you’ll see as you listen that everything we talked about dovetails “beautifully” with her methods. Enjoy the conversation, a...

Welcome to season 3 of our podcast! This episode and the three that follow it are all part of the conversation that we had with Timothy G. Patitsas . We started out by talking about his book, The Ethics of Beauty , which is what you will hear in this episode, but the conversation continued and covered quite a wide range of topics. Enjoy the conversation, and join it in the comments! Dr. Timothy G....

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today we are talking more about shame, along with shyness and boldness and the hard sayings that go along with...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today we talk about toxic shame and how it differs from healthy shame. We also spend some time thinking about h...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today’s episode starts exploring shame and its relation to unknowing ourselves as well as to chaste, yet ardent...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today we take a detour to discuss a rather popular marriage book that Lisa read, and how it helps us understand...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today we have a short recap episode — for ourselves as much as for you, our listeners — to review some of the B...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Not only do we need to understand how to differentiate between bad masculinity and bad femininity, we need to l...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today we start looking more closely at the triune calling that we all share — Priest, Prophet, King — and we co...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Getting deeper into chiasm and gender, in today’s episode our discussion ranges over a lot of ground, from the...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. We started this episode trying to talk about gender, but we found we had much more to say about chiasm before w...

Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we begin our discussion of gender which, as we all know, is a highly relevant topic these days....

Welcome to The Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. Today’s episode is about how excessive rationalism can sometimes lead to irrationality. It’s a difficult concept for us westerners who are used to rationalism as th...

Welcome to The Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we discuss Moral Agency and how it becomes an answer to Moral Luck in that the more responsibility we voluntarily take on ourselves in our efforts t...

Welcome to The Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we continue the conversation about moral luck and the ways in which we relate to it. Take a few minutes to think about the following questions: * Th...

Welcome to the Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we talk about moral luck, what it means and what we do with it. Listen in and then comment to be part of the conversation! Questions to ponder: * Wh...

Welcome to the Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of pie. Mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we talk about how the opposite of war is not peace, but liturgy. Listen in and then comment to be part of the conversation! Questions to ponder...

Welcome to The Diner! Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of pie. Mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self back to the fray with a few new beautiful thoughts to think. In this episode we talk about the consequences of war and Just War Theory. Take a listen and then take minute to contemplate some of the following questions: *...

Welcome to the Diner! Come join us for a slice of mental pie. For the curious — the quote Lisa couldn’t remember from Way of the Ascetics is this: “He who fasts much is he who loves much.” This week we are talking about fasting and eros. Take a listen and contemplate the following ideas: * Think about fasting as purifying eros and feasting as intensifying it. * Think about our own power of eros, o...

Welcome to The Diner! Come join us for a Slice of Pie: Not a feast, just a mental snack. A deep thought to chew on from a big, meaty book. It’s Mother Culture served from a short order kitchen. For season one we’ll be talking about The Ethics of Beauty by Timothy Patitsas — that huge intimidating popular theology book that you wish you had time to read. Sit at the counter of our virtual diner and...