Listen to the Show20110617 OrthoAnalytika ShownotesLocal News (to include consumer news):A great new product that is changing the world (it has already changed my life): CVS Poison Ivy Cleansing Scrub. Technu was good – it kept it from spreading as much as it might have. Drying lotions and cooling sprays are good, but really just […]
20110429 Pawlo’s Greatest Hits
April 30, 2011 By
Click Here to Listen/Download All Pawlo, All the Time In this episode, I prolong my break from discussing things like nephilim, singularities, and the immortality of the soul in order to do what sitcoms do during writer’s strike: a best-of/flashback show. The size of our audience has really grown over the last year, so many […]
20110304 Lent, News, and Evangelizing Moral Therapeutic Deists
March 3, 2011 By
The USB Symbol: a Sign of Ukrainian Orthodoxy’s Global Influence!!! Shownotes for 20110221Lesson: Lenten Epistle of the Permanent Conference of Ukrainian Orthodox Bishops beyond the Borders of Ukraine [Musical Interlude is the Lenten Prokimen “Turn not away Thy Face”, available here by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in San Anselmo, CA.] Mail Call:Question from a new reader/listener: Why doesn’t […]
20110221 The Ontology of Evil
February 18, 2011 By
Shownotes for 20110221Lesson:Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron… But reject profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness. For bodily exercise profits […]
20110128 The Sacramental Ontology of Beauty
January 28, 2011 By
CLICK HERE FOR THE MP3Opening Lesson:“Beauty will save the world.” Prince Myshkin (recounted by Hippolyte) in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.One of the things that leads truly rational and open-minded people to reject pure materialism and atheism is their superficial and patently absurd explanation of the many blessings that flow into creation from her uncreated Creator. […]
20110105 Christian Orienteering, News, and an Interview with a New Priest
January 5, 2011 By
Shownotes for 20100105 Show (click here to download) Homily on the Reading of the Names and the Birth of Christ (St. Matthew 1) Three points: what we are to do with all these names; the standard of evaluation; and the place of Christ in all this. 1. Ancestors – the reading of the names. Why […]
20101217 Hypocrisy, News, and WikiLeaks
December 15, 2010 By
20101217 OrthoAnalytika Shownotes (click here for MP3) +++ Lesson: The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and Rules (St. Luke 13: 10-17)This Gospel lesson is profound. Today I would like to focus on three things that it teaches us. One: You Really Should Come to Church The first has to do with the context of the […]
20101208 Interview with Fr. James Early
December 8, 2010 By
20101208 Shownotes (click to listen/download) Colossians 1: 12-18 Who is the Christ? • He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. • He is the one, by whom “all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities […]
Soviet atheism and American secularism
December 21, 2008 By
Introduction: thinking about the radical atheism of the Soviet Communists The Soviet Communists were atheist totalitarians. They tried to create a system that would make both faith and the religious institutions that foster it seem silly and superfluous. Given the strength of Orthodoxy in the pre-revolutionary Russian Empire, they had to be very intentional about […]
On Newsweek’s Religious Case for Gay Marriage
December 9, 2008 By
I warned my parishioners that the only thing that the Fathers spent more time preaching on than money was sex. I’m sure they rather I talked about their budgets! Advocacy Journalism – and Bible Study – at their Worst The December 15th (2008) edition of Newsweek contains an article by their Religion editor Lisa Miller […]
