398 - The Time for Orthodox Art is NOW
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
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🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Orthodox art offers a profound alternative: not art as consumption or rebellion, but as participation, celebration, and enlightenment. Drawing on my work in children's literature, icon carving, and popular storytelling, I explore how we can reintegrate beauty, memory, and the sacred into every level of artistic creation—from liturgy to fairy tales.
If you're an artist, a parent, or simply someone longing for a more meaningful creative world, I invite you to join me in rediscovering what art is really for—and how it can lead us back to God.
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| 0:00.0 | The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon. |
| 0:23.0 | Not in the mood for miserable weather? |
| 0:25.8 | Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express. |
| 0:28.6 | Sun Express, non-stop sunshine. |
| 0:45.3 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. Brothers and sisters, Your Fathers, Your Grace, Christ is risen. |
| 0:59.0 | It's good to see you all this evening. |
| 1:03.0 | We are going to go ahead and get started, so find a seat or sit on somebody else. |
| 1:09.0 | And I know it's really wonderful to see everything so full. |
| 1:13.5 | It's my great pleasure to have the honor of introducing my good friend, |
| 1:19.7 | Jonathan Pajot. |
| 1:21.1 | And we were talking a little bit before, |
| 1:23.9 | and I was trying to decide how best to introduce them. |
| 1:26.3 | I was like, well, what are my most embarrassing Jonathan's stories? |
| 1:29.3 | You know, there's also, you know, one of the things that people ask me quite often is, |
| 1:34.3 | how did you start working together? I mean, after all, I'm from Texas, thank God. |
| 1:40.3 | And he's French. |
| 1:42.3 | And you know, and so how did, and so the quick story that I'll tell is that several years ago, |
| 1:50.0 | I was, and the sort of person, as most of you probably know, I just, I like to read really old, |
| 1:56.0 | interesting, weird, obscure things. |
| 1:58.0 | And so I was reading these things and I was posting about some of the stuff that I was reading on the, |
| 2:03.6 | specifically something called the sibling books, which if you've watched our Universal History videos, |
| 2:08.6 | you go back for the first couple, you'll see some stuff in there about them. |
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