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In case your life has been uneventful lately: no matter how anticlimactic or prosaic that might sound, there is great merit in a slow moving, recoverable life. It affords its...

To imagine, to dream that an ocean away, on the far side of half a millenium's separation, there are people willing to give you a hearing, or a chance, or...

Time was I saw no likelihood that I'd have any of you to the Orphan Wisdom teaching hall ever again. It was a frailty in the imaginal extremities that had...

THE ROAD Just the sound of the those two words together makes something inside of me leap. Sometimes it's a recipe for disaffection. Sometimes it soothes it. But I've been...

SECOND CHANCE SMOKE In a shaky world you'd think you might take refuge in a clear eyed regard for your own little likelihoods: what you're capable of, and keen on,...

Matrimony in Real TimeStephen Jenkinson March 21-22, 2026Victoria, BC, CanadaTen seats remain It's a hundred years since Eliot unleashed The Waste Land on the western imagination. You might remember "April...

Two Pieces of News Last week a mix of Orphan Wisdom Scholars and Orphan Wisdom Scribes gathered in the Great Hall to transcribe a 2017 recording. Then this past weekend...

The Jesus Session A Livestream EventJanuary 10th and 11th The spirit of translation. The translation of spirit. A taste of what we might be in for with Stephen Jenkinson, Andrew...

To all the allies, accomplices, newsworthy workers of the cultivated mind agile and lateral and literate; to the staunch defenders of the long path, the ambivalent faith, the hard weather...