STORY TIME: WHAT ARE STORIES ALL ABOUT?

This weekend it's story time. Dr Zac Porcu (page) just started a brand new series of six lectures on precisely that subject. On Monday Aug. 31 part 2 goes live on YouTube. Stories are not what most people think. We'll let Porcu explain and you'll much more appreciate their portent and their crucial role in our existence. Because stories are structures of reality. They tell us who we are and where we came from. If a culture stops telling stories, the question is justified, is that culture still alive? And then we got wonderful stories for you. Father Andrew Stephen Damick tells two Nordic stories on The Symbolic World. Master story teller Martin Shaw just delivered part 2 in a sequence on Tobit (subscribe to the platform for part 2 and more). We close with a traditional Greek song. People identify Greek music with emotion, but that is just the effect. What it really is, is a long experience in very good story telling. 

Aug. 24, 2026 The Roots of Everything: Storytelling Ep.1: Reality Is a Story.

Aug. 19, 2026 Jonathan Pageau and Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick: Paradise Is Already Breaking Into the World.

Aug. 22, 2026 JAWBONE with Martin Shaw: BLIND TOBIT Pt. 1. 

Feb. 22, 2021 Νίκος Στρατάκης: Σε ψηλό βουνό. (Nikos Stratakis: Up in the high mountain).Translation. 

Also watch Father Andrew and Deacon Seraphim telling tall stories on the page of The Great Tales. Currently they're in the middle of a retelling of The Odyssey. Page of Universal History. 

Update: After Jonathan Pageau shocked his followers by giving Nolan's "Odyssey" a quite positive review, here he explains to Pavel Shchelin why the movie gives him hope that something is changing in the culture. 



Aug. 28, 2026 Naming the Self Evident: Where are Gods? The Odyssey with Jonathan Pageau.

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