The Invitation of Uncertainty with Mark Vernon | Created In The Image of God 203

Mark Vernon steps into the studio for an episode that faces our collective anxieties with honesty and depth. The conversation opens with the sense of collapse many feel today—a sense that familiar certainties are fading. Instead of offering quick fixes or retreating into platitudes, Mark explores what happens when we approach uncertainty as a call to discover deeper forms of truth and beauty.Drawing on his background as a psychotherapist, educator, and former vicar, Mark unpacks lessons from the Platonic and Christian traditions. He reflects on thinkers like Dante and William Blake, but also connects these traditions to the symbols and stories of modern culture—even Frankenstein and zombies become part of the journey.This episode asks: Can meaning and hope break through, even when everything feels unsettled? Mark suggests that wisdom is less about escaping difficulty and more about cultivating a way of seeing—a spiritual intelligence—that reveals goodness precisely in the moment of greatest uncertainty. Whether you’re drawn to philosophy, psychology, faith, or simply the yearning for deeper answers, this conversation offers a space to wrestle honestly with the questions of our age.

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