I was humbled (but not humbled enough to not let you know) by the chance to give the Larkin-Stuart lecture at the University of Toronto’s Trinity College last week. Inspired by John Ruskin (and guided by my geologist colleague Stephen Moshier) I tried to fuse art history and geology as Ruskin did (the Royal Ontario Museum is a few Carboniferous stone throws away). Here is one of my claims within the address to perhaps spur you (or enrage you enough) to watch: If we wish to celebrate the Indigenous wisdom of North America as Christians, we should be slow to discard the equally Indigenous Mediterranean wisdom of Plato as well, who was so much less “dualistic” than he is made out to be. But if you’ve read your Dionysius the Areopagite, you knew that.