We cannot deny the radical secularism with which we are surrounded. But we should defy it.

Relativism is not "freedom," but quickly descends instead into tyranny and barbarism.

We must choose between faith and the world, but this is not to be mistaken as a choice between faith and philosophy. Not at all.

Greetings and welcome to Wholly Orders, a poetic and philosophical exploration of tradition.

A meditation on the leap of faith as a poetic response to the ineffable ground of being. Faith relates to reason much as poetry to prose.

The leap of faith as a disposition toward being, vs scientific or ideological reductionism. A meditation on "small answers," wholeness, and the credo.

I respond to those who would like me to talk only about poetry and philosophy, not about Catholicism.

The second in a two-part discussion critical of ideology. I discuss a personal metanoia that helped me to overcome ideological thinking.

The first in a two-part discussion critical of ideology as inadequate to the tasks of philosophy. Ideology is a false substitute for philosophy.

Second in a two-part meditation on the relationship of the poetic, the sacred, & Enlightenment. References: Hopkins, Sherrard, Raine, and Blake.