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Ancient Faith Today
The Eastern Orthodox Approach to the Bible

Episode date: February 24, 2013
Transcript published: February 28, 2013

Mr. Kevin Allen: Welcome to Ancient Faith Today, Orthodox Media’s live listener call-in program on contemporary issues, through the lens of the tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church. I am very pleased you are with us this evening. We’re streaming live right now, and we’ll be opening the lines and taking your live calls in about 15 minutes. The call-in number, as the announcer mentioned is 1-855-AF-RADIO. That’s 1-855-237-2346. Our chat room is now open, being moderated by Fr. John, and that’s ancientfaith.com/ancientfaithtoday, if you want to listen and chat. You can also find us on…

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Becoming a Healing Presence
Internet Pornography - Part 2

Episode date: January 15, 2012
Transcript published: February 25, 2013

In the last podcast, I talked about internet pornography as a destroyer of purity of heart. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God on this earth. And I talked about the size of the problem, that it’s a hundred-billion-dollar industry, bringing in more money than the National Football League, Major League Baseball, and National Basketball [Association] all combined. And that our youth are viewing internet pornography in a great way: 87% of male youth and 31% of female youth say they watch internet pornography.

I’m going to continue today talking about—I want to get to the solution or what we can do about…

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Worship in Spirit and Truth
Introduction to Worship in Spirit and Truth

Episode date: January 10, 2011
Transcript published: February 18, 2013

We are beginning today a new series of podcasts, new series of reflections for our beloved Ancient Faith Radio, and this series will be a reflection on the Divine Liturgy, the Eucharistic Divine Liturgy as it is celebrated today in the Orthodox Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church. This Divine Liturgy that I will be commenting on is usually called the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and it is served regularly in the Eastern Orthodox churches with the exception of ten times a year.

Ten times a year, when the faithful will gather for the holy Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great will be served. This Liturgy of St. Basil…

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Ancient Faith Presents
Sacred Art, Sacred Music

Episode date: January 31, 2013
Transcript published: February 16, 2013

Bobby Maddex: Welcome to Ancient Faith Presents. I’m Bobby Maddex, operations manager of Ancient Faith Radio. Today I will be speaking with Deacon David Companik, the spokesman for an upcoming conference titled Sacred Art, Sacred Music, which will be held this coming March 1-3 at St. Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas. Welcome to the program, Dn. David.

Deacon David Companik: Thank you for giving me an opportunity to be here with you and share more about this event.

Mr. Maddex: So tell me, what is this conference, Sacred Art, Sacred Music?

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Food, Faith, and Fasting
Dining with Alcohol

Episode date: September 05, 2012
Transcript published: February 13, 2013

Welcome, everyone, to another session of Food, Faith, and Fasting. Today what I thought we could do is talk about a subject matter that is mentioned approximately 200 times in Holy Scripture. Do you have any idea what that subject matter might be? Well, if you guessed alcohol, you are correct. Specifically, when we read Holy Scripture and the times, it was more wine that was consumed, but when we look at this material now, we are going to focus on wine, alcohol, and liquor. So we’re going to look at them all together. What does our relationship need to be with alcoholic beverages?

If something is mentioned approximately…

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