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Ancient Faith Today
Faith and Celebrity
Episode date: January 13, 2013
Transcript published: January 14, 2013
Kevin Allen: Welcome to Ancient Faith Today. We’re Orthodox Media’s live listener call-in program on contemporary issues through the lens of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Her holy Tradition. We’re streaming live right now and will be taking calls. The lines are open, and the call-in number is 1-855-AF-RADIO. That’s 1-855-237-2346. Our chat room is now open at ancientfaith.com/ancientfaithtoday. You can also in the future check us out on Facebook, and while you’re there give us a “like”; we appreciate that.
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A Word from the Holy Fathers
St Mark the Ascetic: Taking Up the Cross With Joy
Episode date: December 21, 2012
Transcript published: December 27, 2012
The text I would like to address today is a small saying attributed to St. Mark the Ascetic, sometimes known as St. Mark the Monk or St. Mark the Hermit. He was a great ascetic of the Egyptian Desert who lived in the 5th Century, who was himself a disciple of John Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed; whose divine words are often the subject of our consideration here in these broadcasts.
St. Mark the Monk, having become a monk in his 40th and having been tonsured, as tradition says, by St. John, spent the remainder of his life, some 60 years or so, in the Egyptian Desert in Nytria in lower Egypt. Renowned even among his contemporaries, he…
Glory to God
Speaking to the Heart
Episode date: December 10, 2012
Transcript published: December 26, 2012
Today I want to complete this series where I’ve been looking at the true and the false self. My last podcast on the topic was about Evangelism and the Ego. And today, this podcast is about Speaking to the Heart. I can remember being told that “Talking to you is like talking to a fence post!” It wasn’t a pleasant thing to hear, but I can still hear the words. I don’t remember who said them, but I heard them some time in my teenage years. “Talking to you is like talking to a fence post!”
The occasion was doubtless some sort of argument. There were many things to argue about: love,…
Glory to God
Evangelism and the Ego
Episode date: December 06, 2012
Transcript published: December 10, 2012
Do I have a responsibility to rescue the ego-driven narrative of your life? Does the gospel of Christ exist to confirm your opinions and strengthen your arguments against the threats of a world-gone-mad? How should we evangelize the neurotic? I use the term “neurotic” lightly, under the assumption that we can all be described by the term to a greater or lesser extent. The ego, as I’ve used it here and most recently in several other podcasts, refers to a false-self, created by our distorted thoughts and feelings:
Even though it is not really a “thing” at all, the ego is a sense of self that slowly develops…
All Saints Homilies
Wolves in the Synagogue
Episode date: December 19, 2011
Transcript published: December 07, 2012
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, out of the Holy Spirit. Amen. When I was glancing over the assigned text for this morning, I noted that the Epistle was chosen because this is the Feast of St. Barbara. I read it and wished I knew more about Barbara, so this morning during Matins, I listened very closely to that biography of Barbara that’s read there in the Synaxarium after the Gospel.
And then, I listened very closely to Joseph’s reading of Galatians. It came right together. It just came right together. I know exactly why this text was picked, but I’m not going to preach on that this morning. Maybe next time…
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