You're Living in Your Head. Here's How to Get Back. w/ James Taylor Foreman

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 KantThe two-week wedding, the relocation to Louisiana, and why time pressure sometimes produces more beauty than years of planning ever couldWalker 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 insideAbstraction 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 remedyRight 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 yourselfChapters: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 DisappearResources Mentioned:The Metaphor by James Taylor ForemanLost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker PercyMorning Offering with Fr. Brad DoyleJOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios