is the author of The Metaphor on Substack. His work has also been featured in The Dispatch, The Advocate, and Magazine.

His Saturday morning Substack posts (including today’s) have become a staple of my weekend reading, and it was a pleasure to chat with him about a handful of them this week.

The Metaphor

Choosing Penelope

Riley and I were married on a Saturday in a small Los Angeles church…

a year ago · 87 likes · 12 comments · James Taylor Foreman

Chisel

The Telos of Cornhole

a month ago · 32 likes · Chisel and James Taylor Foreman

The Metaphor

Slop Suggests the Existence of Its Opposite

I’ve met a shocking number of people who became religious or spiritual after a horrifying personal experience of evil. They all say almost the same line: After that, I knew for sure evil was real, so I realized its opposite must also exist…

a month ago · 118 likes · 25 comments · James Taylor Foreman

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I See Nietzsche Fall Like Lightning

I'm going to take an ill-advised stab at assessing the world's most pretended-to-be-understood philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche…

2 years ago · 84 likes · 25 comments · James Taylor Foreman

We also discussed the Christian qualities of actors and writers, the differences between Los Angeles and Louisiana, Southern Gothic literature, psychedelics, and why you should befriend elderly church ladies. I hope you will enjoy the episode as much as I did! And if you feel so inclined, go ahead and

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Ep.08: Philosophizing w/ James Taylor Foreman