When you click on the image above a Substack article will open.  It is a defense of Eastern Orthodox influencer Jonathan Pageau.  He produces content under the brand, “The Symbolic World.”

The writer observes,

Maybe you received a good education. In that case, glory to God! But not everyone was so fortunate. And Pageau isn’t only addressing himself to folks with Ph.Ds in comparative religion. He’s trying to have a conversation that anyone can jump into—regardless of their education level. He doesn’t speak down to people, but he does make himself intelligible to any reasonably thoughtful person. That, in my book, is a virtue.

The Yankee Athonite proclaims, “The Baby Boomers were infamously bad at handing down a basic understanding of… well, anything.”  Ouch.

Describing the importance of good stories to our lives he says

What makes Pageau famous, though, is that he fills one of those knowledge gaps—specifically the ones left when we stopped telling our kids bedtime stories. Those were the moments when we catechized our children into the folk-wisdom of their ancestors.  I’m always struck by the scenes in The Andy Griffith Show where Andy tells Opie (or Otis) classic stories like Jack and the Beanstalk. The problem is that Opie’s generation also grew up watching The Andy Griffith Show. By the time they had kids of their own, TV had pretty much monopolized the story-telling aspects of our society.  Yet, as St. Basil the Great pointed out, those old stories prepared the hearts and minds of men to receive the Gospel. They still have a place in our world. We have simply failed to make room for them. Pageau is correcting that error.

I’ll stop before I quote the entire commentary.

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Amen.