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A few years ago I was doing the unimaginable: dealing in person, unmasked and in real time, with a teller in the small bank in the village close to where I live. The bank's manager, who kindly keeps abreast of my work via my newsletters and such, came out...

Update: April. 24th 2021 Well, no sense asking you to ‘stay tuned’. Sometimes, as I’ve had to work up another proviso to put here instead of school registration info, I’ve felt like an MC who’s being prompted from the wings to ‘vamp until ready’, until the tech snafus are undone...

Connor Beaton interviews Stephen Jenkinson for the ManTalks podcast. Orphan Wisdom · April 2021 - ManTalks Podcast - What Patriarchy Really Meant, And Dying Cultural Myths

My guest today is Stephen Jenkinson, a culture activist, teacher and author, and principle instructor of The Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). Stephen’s most recent books are the award-winning Die Wise:...

I don't know what happens to a culture when its performers and artists are dropped from the invitation list. Totalitarian regimes have kept a pretty tight rein on them, brought them into line, turned them into shills for what prevailed. Other kinds of regimes have turned them into decorations,...

DARK ROADS - Come the Romans - Sample Track You just don't know. You rehearse or you don't; you talk about the set list for a good long while or you scribble it down five minutes before going out; you're at the mercy of the house sound guy, or you...

You could call it your life. You could. Life's not answering to that, though. Life's not even listening. I've written a few books, but I'm no writer. Writers as I imagine them probably gather a life together that serves the writing, or tolerates it. Or they go without one, so...

War is hell, the trustworthy adage goes. Most people who've been don't talk about it much. Most of our language can't do it justice. That says more about our language than it does about war, maybe. These days are something like war, I'm guessing. No enemy of the usual kind...

Simon Drew interviews Stephen Jenkinson on Logos, Poetry & Prophecy About Simon Drew Simon Drew is an Australian Alignment Coach, musician and host of the Practical Stoic Podcast. On this show he interviews some of the most influential thinkers in Stoicism and philosophy today, including Massimo Pigliucci, Donald Robertson, Ryan Holiday,...

This is from the invocation that has kicked off every Night of Grief and Mystery that Gregory Hoskins and I have done over the last few years. Seems to fit these days and nights, too. Recorded my part here at the house. Hoskins did his stuff at the studio...

Let’s say you’re in lock down, because you were ‘exposed’. Or maybe it's because your boredom has succumbed to your concern for the common good. So, whaddya mean, “Let’s say you’re in lock down”? No, no. You’re in lock down. You’re looking out the window, at the sight of nothing...

I've been asked hundreds of times to sign personal copies of Come of Age, and I'm glad to do it. More than glad. I see to it that each inscription is very close to prayer, outright. Not always a prayer for something, mind you. Rarely that. Just as often...

Thank you to everyone who helped raise $749.70 for RAVEN Trust and their work raising legal defence funds to assist Indigenous Peoples who enforce their rights and title to protect their traditional territories. RAVEN Trust, through their public education programs, collaborates with Indigenous Peoples to eliminate environmental racism and foster...