Verum Fabula Fellowship Review

CoFounders of VFF, Randy Hardman and Wes Mullins, continue to reprise their roles as Jack and Beren (Lewis and Tolkien). Randy and Wes met at Drinklings Roastery in Wilmore, Kentucky and quickly found out that they had a lot in common with the two authors. Randy had been more influenced by Tolkien and Wes more by Lewis, it was a match made for the Eagle and Child! In today's episode, Randy and Wes...

Tonight we wrestled with this notion of higher and lower transpositional propositions. In short, we seem to unconsciously vacillate between interpretations that we construct from higher and lower sources. How many misinterpretations are we guilty of by applying 1-to-1 correlation to things like love, sex, marriage, friendship, etc.. If we only apply 1-to-1 correlations to every similar sensation a...

“We can’t speak outside of the things derived from our experience. We use that information to impose on the spiritual world instead of coming up with something new.” -David Whitaker (Member) Wes submits that the proposition that communication is discoverable and expressed through linguistics and language. This suggests that there are objective truths and meanings wherein humans are experiencing an...

Randy has rejoined VFF and we have started up our "Jack and Beren Show" wherein we discuss things on our minds and hearts stemming from theology to literature to philosophy. It is similar to what happens on Monday nights with the gang but this gives Randy and I chance to dive deeper into certain aspects that we may not be able to on group discussions. Also, we may not even get to the topics of wha...

The first Verum Fabula Fellowship meeting of 2020 and it did not disappoint. We began our review of "Transposition." It is an essay written by CS Lewis in 1949. The crux of essay lay in the question of why is the religious, spiritual, and metaphysical experience(s) only expressed in the language of the physical, known experiences of humanity? If you will, why are abstractions best expressed in sta...

We are finishing up "Leaf by Niggle" and it has been an incredible journey. We finally get to attempt to answer does art have purpose? What happens to the art of earth? Wes, David, Katlyn, Nina, Chris, and Janelle discuss the final chapters of Tolkien's great allegorical work.

PhD Candidate Derek King presents his talk and focus of PhD study "The Hiddenness of God" at VFF. Derek is currently studying at St. Andrews University. He proposes to bring in CS Lewis's anticipation of the Modern Problem of Divine Hiddenness in "Till We Have Faces." The essay he presents in this talk actually was published in "The Journal of Inklings Study."

"Leaf by Niggle" Part Ii. Niggle, the impasioned painter and the lackluster gardener, is still on the docket. We are discussing further into the text and seeing how Niggle deals with distractions and interruptions to his work. The questions still remains does art have value beyond aesthetics? Is art a waste of relational and practical capital? Join us as we go further up and further in.

JRR Tolkien wrote this short but powerful book after seeing a tree had been felled by its owners. Tolkien seemed to morn the trees passing as an injustice, to which may be only he and some owls would miss the great poplar. This poplar passing affected him and one day in 1947 he woke up and penned "Tree and Leaf", which we now call "Leaf By Niggle." It is the story of a distracted painter who becom...

J Wesley Mullins and Phd Candidate Derek King discuss his upcoming talk on "The Hiddenness of God" at VFF. Derek is currently studying at St. Andrews University. He proposes to bring in CS Lewis's anticipation of the Modern Problem of Divine Hiddenness in "Till We Have Faces." The essay he presents in his upcoming talk actually was published in "The Journal of Inklings Study." This is a preview di...

Hello and Welcome to Verum Fabula Fellowship Podcast. Wes Mullins and Randy Hardman the hosts. It is our goal to bring you content that cultivates and enriches your daily interactions and encourages the refinement of character and intellect. The terrain we cover ranges from Literature to Philosophy to Theology. It is our hope that through these lenses we can offer insight into the human experience...

JW Mullins (Jack) and Randy Hardman (Beren) tackle "Sola Scriptura", inerrancy, and the authority of the Bible. This was an interview of Randy and a debrief of his keynote address that was given at Drinklings Roastery and at a VFF Meeting. We were unable to record the keynote this time. The topic is a very controversial one in Christendom in both America and Europe, in both the Catholic Orthodoxy...

Hello and Welcome to Verum Fabula Fellowship Podcast. I am Wes Mullins and I am Randy Hardman, and we will be your hosts today. It is our goal to bring you content that cultivates and enriches your daily interactions and encourages the refinement of character and intellect. The terrain we cover ranges from Literature to Philosophy to Theology. It is our hope that through these lenses we can offer...

Hello and Welcome to Verum Fabula Fellowship Podcast. Wes Mullins and Randy Hardman are the hosts. It is our goal to bring you content that cultivates and enriches your daily interactions and encourages the refinement of character and intellect. The terrain we cover ranges from Literature to Philosophy to Theology. It is our hope that through these lenses we can offer insight into the human experi...