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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...

I've never graduated beyond the 'computer as slightly enhanced typewriter' phase of tech.Almost everyone else has, though, and there's been genuine good that's come from that.I have, through no labour...