Episode 15 // Sacred Geometry & The Prophetic Gaze

This week's episode is divided into three segments, and explores themes of geometry, propheticism, and vision. The first 'geometric' section focuses on the spiritually pervasive motif of labyrinths as well as scriptural fragments in their physical form -- two topics related to the strangely particular and winding path of history. The second 'prophetic' section explores the impassioned homiletics of oracular voices and fringe radio preachers -- related to the urgency and immediacy of the present which connects past actions or experiences to some future eschatological form -- demise or otherwise. Finally, the third 'ocular' section extends the second section into a penetrating prophetic gaze -- accentuating the dynamic between the uncertain future and unrelenting anxiety of the present community. Below is an image of a Robert Morris installation entitled 'Untitled (Philadelphia Labyrinth)'. Morris was a prominent theorist on 'Minimalism' and a contributor to what became known as 'Process Art'. [1]

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0:00:00 - promo: cfrc twitter
0:00:11 - Roomful of Teeth - 'Amid the Minotaurs' (composed by William Brittelle)
0:07:52 - Morton Feldman - 'Turfan Fragments'
0:0":""' - talking on: gnostic gospel of Mani [2], history of labyrinths [3]
0:11:51 - Byungki Hwang - 'The Labyrinth'
0:27:45 - Aaron Roche - 'Etude'
0:32:50 - psa: vegetarianism
0:33:09 - pro: caring campus project: mental health survey
0:33:45 - Ricky Eat Acid - 'In rural virginia watching glowing lights crawl from the dark corners of the room'
0:40:56 - The KLF - 'Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard'
0:46:53 - Kate Bush - 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)'
0:51:52 - Philip Glass - 'Prophecies'
0:"":""' - talking on: Walter Brueggemann on the Mosaic archetype as alternative


1:00:39 - station id: Amy Goodman
1:00:56 - psa: Noam Chomsky on community radio
1:01:42 - ad: Gordon Lightfoot ticket auction
1:02:27 - Dean Blunt - 'Seven Seals of Affirmation'
1:04:41 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Chart #3'
1:07:30 - Julia Holter - 'Goddess Eyes'
1:10:55 - Egyptrixx - 'Bible Eyes'
1:''":""' - talking on: Terrence Malick, Fatima's Hand, Zizek and the Lacanian gaze
1:17:11 - Explosions In The Sky - 'Have You Passed Through This Night'
1:24:17 - Josephine Foster - 'There Are Eyes Above'
1:28:08 - Muslimgauze - 'Hand Of Fatima'
1:29:53 - station id: Stereolab
1:30:05 - psa: Loving Spoonful

"There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world."
- William Sloane Coffin

"We are gathered into community, but the community and its accumulated wisdom is always under challenge from the prophet at the door. Whenever the community, the church, becomes sedimented, whenever it becomes a moral arbiter, the knock at the door comes from the one excluded... Perhaps the process of qu(e)erying is the prophetic process? Perhaps it is another form of exegesis that needs to become the ongoing work of the church? Truth claims need to be shown as the slippery fears that they might be. In scripture there is only one truth, the truth that walked among us as Jesus Christ. In a sense the process of deconstruction is the closest the secular has come to that. Because deconstruction pushes at the weakness of truths as they vainly attempt to bolster themselves against suspicion, it has pointed some Christians back to their own text in a more faithful way. Queer theory has pointed some Christians to a more faithful understanding of evangelism, conversion, and church itself."
- Cheri DiNovo (Qu(e)erying Evangelism), [4]

"Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths."
- Umberto Eco

Further Info:
[1] Labyrinth - fragments (RIHA Journal)
[2] Gospel of Mani
[3] History of Labyrinths
[4] 'Qu(e)erying Evangelism' by Cheri DiNovo