Three Announcements

A. N. Wilson's Substack, my latest podcast appearance, and a discount

I have been somewhat out of touch with things for better than half a year, and so have only just discovered that A. N. Wilson has a Substack publication—in the form of a running journal—that he began on 19 May of last year. This interests me in part because it was on 10 May that I believe I (and Rupert Sheldrake) first suggested to him that he start such a publication, over dinner in Hampstead; that means he must have thought it good advice (and I hope he still does). In still greater part, what pleases me about this is that he writes on old topics that I find genuinely fascinating. I subscribed only last night, and I am busy catching up on things, but I have been throughly delighted by articles on Walter Pater, William Morris, and Tolstoy. Next I shall be diving in to pieces on Goethe and Benjamin Britten, as well as a series of posts on the person of Jesus. I vigorously, robustly, and even rudely recommend subscribing to it. Here is a link:

Now, I recently had a conversation with a young man named Curt Jaimungal for his podcast Theories of Everything. It ranged over a number of topics—the problem of evil, the resurrection of Christ, the irreducibility of mental acts and of life, and even (curiously enough) the state of my faith—and seemed to go quite well. As I understand it, the podcast is usually largely devoted to the sciences, but on this occasion the principal emphasis lay elsewhere. In any event, I found Curt a very congenial host and enjoyed the exchange immensely.

Here is the YouTube link:

Finally, for those who might want to purchase the audiobook version of All Things Are Full of Gods, I have been sent this link for a 60% discount from the publisher.