S4E3 Everything Everywhere All at Mass: Complexity

Awkward Asian Theologians · Aug 14, 2026 · 24m

Matt and Dan begin by demonstrating that they learnt absolutely nothing from their previous episode, returning almost immediately to their unconscious devotion to the rubrics - and, with the serene confidence of an auntie rearranging your kitchen, innovation at exactly the same time.

This naturally, or perhaps unnaturally, becomes a discussion about complexity and what the Asians detect as a cultural crusade against it: the conviction that everything, including the intellectual and spiritual life, ought to be made simple, preferably before the tea gets cold.

But when did simplicity become a…