Archive - True Magic

[S1E7.5] Hair, trees, crowns, angels & glory-clouds

In this tweener episode, Bnonn lays some groundwork for episode 8 (head coverings) with a didactic overview of the biblical symbolism that unifies hair…

Sep 10 •

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35:33

August 2024

Talky Bnonnsense #9: is disability an impediment to marriage?

What is the heart of marriage?

Aug 5 •

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48:44

July 2024

The symbolic incoherence of transubstantiation

Scriptural sacramentalism puts the spiritual before and above the physical. Transubstantiation does the opposite.

Jul 12 •

Talky Bnonnsense #8: wives with jobs aren’t (necessarily) betraying their husbands

While it’s true that a wife should be oriented toward her husband, her household, and especially her children, it is false that simply having a job ipso…

Jul 2 •

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23:44

June 2024

Masculine & feminine symbolize creator & creation: a response to Matt Damico’s critique of It’s Good To Be A Man

Scripture depicts masculine and feminine as patterns, expressed in distinctions like creator/creature and male/female. Thus the connection in Romans 1…

Jun 20 •

Talky Bnonnsense #7: how Jane Austen (kinda) predicted feminism

Smokey, in lieu of doing research for the next episode, instead regales us with wisdomous thoughts about how the character motifs in Jane Austen’s…

Jun 14 •

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21:18

May 2024

The Christian heuristic for easily predicting unforeseeable harms

Why ugly things are likely to be bad things.

May 24 •

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[S1E7] Glory, shame & pixie cuts

If long hair is a woman’s glory, what does that mean for pixie cuts and bobs?

May 1 •

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33:25

April 2024

[S1E6] How should we dress for church?

Is the idea of a Sunday best biblical?

Apr 5 •

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41:52

March 2024

Truth, goodness, beauty & steampunk

The steampunk aesthetic, at its best, grounds technology within the human condition, imaginatively illustrating how technology can serve truth, goodness…

Mar 21 •

The Spine of Scripture: God’s Kingdom from Eden to Eternity by Dominic Bnonn Tennant

A book about the telos of the gospel and impressing heavenly patterns into the earth, articulating the larger framework that True Magic takes for…

Mar 18 •

[S1E5] Thorny questions about modesty as place-keeping

If modesty is fundamentally about knowing and keeping our place, then certain thorny questions naturally arise.

Mar 12 •

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49:54

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