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The Symbolic World

417 - Three Things Christians Must Do to Rebuild Culture (Touchstone talk)

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This talk took place at the 2025 Touchstone conference, Great and Wonderful Days: Rediscovering the Christian Life in a Post-Christian Age. The title of my talk was “This is the Day”. 
https://www.touchstonemag.com/

Original YouTube version: https://youtu.be/cnMk_GFpVbw

I explore how our modern world—built on endless disruption and self-expression—has reached its breaking point. We’re witnessing the collapse of a culture that forgot its source, but that’s also at the beginnings of renewal. From art and architecture to worship and storytelling, I share how Christians can remember, celebrate, and create once again—recovering beauty, meaning, and participation in the divine order. This is a moment of opportunity: to rediscover Christ as the pattern of reality and rebuild culture on that foundation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The truth is that we have now seen the fruit of the world they proposed to us.

0:07.3

Right?

0:07.5

So 100 years ago, it would have been harder.

0:10.0

It was harder to resist.

0:11.8

Their world they wanted didn't exist yet.

0:14.8

And so they were saying, if you just get rid of this superstitious nonsense and all of this hogwash

0:20.3

and you just follow these things,

0:22.2

we will reach utopia. We will have the best world. Well, now they got it. They've had it.

0:28.9

They've had their chance, and it sucks. And it is not good. And so we have to remember, and now we have to recapture our confidence, not in

0:43.5

ourselves, obviously, our confidence in Christ, our confidence in knowing that Christ is,

0:50.2

not just the guy that you believe in to go to heaven, that Christ is the exemplar of the best

0:56.6

pattern of how to exist that has ever been manifested in the world.

1:04.2

And like I said, if you're bold and if you know that that's true, people will come. They will be attracted because it's

1:14.9

true. Right? Because it's true. And now, like I said, you can lie for a while. And lies are convincing

1:21.7

and propaganda is convincing. And a lot of us are under the weight of propaganda. But that will run out.

1:27.3

It has to run out.

1:28.5

It has to run out.

1:33.8

And in the moment when it runs out, you have people that are hungry.

1:36.3

And that's the situation we have now. This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

2:13.6

Hello, everyone. We are finally announcing our Paradiso class. We have done two already. We have the inferno. We have the purgatory. And now we are moving to paradise. That is right. Dante himself says Inferno that we prefer hell to paradise. And

2:20.3

similarly, most of us prefer to read Inferno, but when we come to reading Paradiso, we're very

2:26.9

confused. So we're going to be actually taking you through that poem line by line like we did with

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