Something Worth Worshiping: Ross Arlen Tieken on Paganism, Magic, and Conversion
Ross Arlen Tieken is a writer, educator, and seventh-generation Texan whose path into the Church ran through paganism, medieval scholarship, and a profound encounter with beauty. In this conversation with Jason Craig, Ross traces how a childhood hunger for something worth worshiping—cultivated on a farm in Shiner, Texas—led him from neo-paganism and a grant-funded expedition to study druids in rural England to the sacramental universe of Catholicism.
Chapters:
00:00: Introduction and Ross's Texas Roots
07:11: Catholicism in the Family and the Wound of Rejection
09:58: A Search for Something…
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