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Fr. Justin (Edward) Hewlett
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AI and the World of Code
Hello and welcome to Geek Orthodox. I’m Father Justin, geek from my youth.AI has taken the world by storm. Whether we like it or not, it’s embedded in pretty much everything. My wife was just on the…
The Tale of My Beloved Stellar Empires
It’s story-time again! This one has a bit of almost all things World of Code about it: early computing history, strategy gaming, programming, BASIC, some actual code analysis, engagement with…
World of Code: Switching Things Up II
In this second half of this two-part World of Code episode in which we dive into actual code and the experience of coding, we’ll take our BASIC light-switch program and re-implement it in a modern…
S2E2 The First Literary Death of Arthur: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Continuing the process of re-issuing the first arc of my podcast, following on from Episode 1, “The Historical Deaths of Arthur”, available here.In which we examine the transition from the treatment…
S1E3 Transformation and the Importance of Embodiment
On re-issuing this episode today: It seems particularly appropriate to re-release this talk I gave on transformation today, on the Feast of Transfiguration, which in Greek is referred to as…
Thinking through and Implementing the Algorithm
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit geekorthodox.substack.comIt’s been a while since I posted any bonus content for my few paying subscribers! Since I’ve chosen to put only…
World of Code: Switching Things Up
Having wrapped up the first arc of this “World of Code” arc of the podcast with an examination of the ways in which some of the attributes of computer code have had an impact on two very human…
The Historical Deaths of Arthur
Why does Arthur—someone who may or may not have been King of England, and may or may not have even existed—become such a hugely important figure in England and English Literature, and why is the…
Homily: How the Blind Man Saw Things
I don’t usually post my homilies here, and I’m not intending to make a habit of it: they can generally be found, if anyone is interested and if I post them at all, on my church website and its…
Prayer Rules!
I find myself really hesitant to post this one, partly because it’s so deeply personal, partly because I mention that I’m lazy and terrible at praying enough times that it may actually reveal that I…
12 Years of Teaching with Pi
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit geekorthodox.substack.comThis is another one of those kinda fun failures… I’m putting the video behind the paywall because I think it’s…
S3E6 World of Code: Stories, Games, Identity, and Parallel Universes
In which we explore the impact of the World of Code on stories and games… and speculate about its resultant impact on current concepts of identity and even parallel universes!I had a lot of fun with…
World of Code: Stories, Games, Identity, and Parallel Universes
I had a lot of fun with this one—and, I could very easily keep on having fun with it indefinitely… which I may well do (well, maybe not indefinitely!) in future episodes. Given my own very personal…
Paid Content Experiment
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit geekorthodox.substack.comThose few here who have actually read through most of my Substack will know that my intent is to make all the…
How Postmodernism and My Weirdest Essay Helped Me See the Truth of Orthodoxy
Video: https://youtu.be/-lPHuWCbvKk It’s story-time! In this first episode of a new arc that I’m going to entitle “WordPlay”, I tell the story of my weirdest, most intertextual essay ever and how it…
This is Blasphemy
Let’s be clear about what this casting of a female Aslan really is. Video: https://youtu.be/2B1U-Lqn4xE This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to…
World of Code: Reviewing the Data
Video: https://youtu.be/QKxNVGMAKWY In which we review the characteristics of the World of Code we’ve covered so far, add “data” into the mix, and examine – by applying this understanding to a single…
World of Code: The “Embodiment” of Code
Video: https://youtu.be/EcT4MqUTdKw To exist and to interact with the world around it, computer code needs to be “embodied” in (of course) computers, and, despite its virtually infinite extensibility…
Mining Play for Pearls: Experiential Theology and Life Lessons Learned as a Gamer and Minecraft Server Admin
What value can we find in video-games? My talk at Doxacon Seattle 2025 mines my experience as a gamer, focussing on Starflight, and as a Minecraft Server Administrator for theological and…
S3E3 World of Code: Conditionals and Complexity
Video: https://youtu.be/Msl3uV1yhB4 In which we continue our consideration of computer code with conditional commands, reflecting on the implications of the consequent complexity This is a public…
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