James Taylor Foreman is a writer, the voice behind The Metaphor on Substack, and a contributor to Sword & Spade magazine. In this conversation with Jason Craig, James traces his journey from being born Catholic, through years as an atheist, and back to the Catholic Church — and the more personal story underneath: a recurring dream, a two-week wedding, and a move back to Louisiana to finish the house his father left incomplete.
In This Episode, We Cover:
How reading Aquinas, Augustine, and Athanasius made James's conversion to Catholicism intellectually inevitable and what both Protestants and materialists have in common when they skip everything between Aristotle and Kant
The two-week wedding, the relocation to Louisiana, and why time pressure sometimes produces more beauty than years of planning ever could
Walker Percy, Louisiana Catholic culture, and the tragedy of a people who possessed one of the richest Catholic inheritances in America and nearly let it rot from the inside
Abstraction as the defining spiritual disorder of modernity — what it is, why it fuels everything from addiction to political outrage, and why embodiment is the only real remedy
Right relationship with technology: why the tools that "disappear" are more dangerous than the ones we can see, and what it means to be a faithful steward rather than a tool yourself
Chapters:
00:00: Introduction and James's Background
06:02: From Louisiana Catholic to Teenage Atheist
08:40: A Slow Conversion, the Presbyterian Church, and the Church Fathers
14:45: Meeting Riley and the Two-Week Wedding
21:56: Finishing His Father's House in Louisiana
27:28: Walker Percy, St. Francisville, and Louisiana
34:58: What We Squandered: Retention, the Dance Hall, and Louisiana Catholic Culture
42:20: Walker Percy and the Problem of Despair
43:43: Abstraction, Embodiment, and Escaping Yourself
54:14: Right Relationship with Technology: The Tools That Disappear
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