Shownotes. Click to listen to/download.Local News: The Weather. Irene Hurricane. Need to be prepared more generally. Spiritually, you don’t prepare for specific traumatic events (and demonic assaults) that have been forecast, you maintain constant vigilance. Then we are ready for everything that comes along. This fits in with a couple pieces of traditional Christian wisdom: […]
20110729 Monasteries, Survival, & Gardening
July 29, 2011 By
Shownotes. Click to Listen. A bit late getting this podcast published. I blame the computer malfunctions that led to a loss of Friday’s work! Happy (belated) St. Vladimir/Volodymyr Day. This is a wonderful reminder that things can change, that benighted nations can find enlightenment, and that Christ really does work in a fallen world. Local […]
20110617 Politics, the Paranormal, and Imagining Vain Things
June 17, 2011 By
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 […]
Guardian Angels III: Worship
June 15, 2011 By
St. Michael’s Series on the Guardian Angel: Guardian Angels in Worship Sources: Jean Danielou, S.J. The Angels and their Mission According to the Fathers of the Church Mother Alexandra The Holy Angels. CCEL Church Fathers Our first week, we looked at some of the scriptural evidence for guardian angels. The next week we followed up by looking […]
Guardian Angels II: The Early Fathers
June 14, 2011 By
St. Michael’s Series on the Guardian Angel: Guardian Angels in Tradition Sources: Jean Danielou, S.J. The Angels and their Mission According to the Fathers of the Church Mother Alexandra The Holy Angels. CCEL Church Fathers Last week, we looked at some of the scriptural evidence for guardian angels. Scripture is the greatest part of an […]
Guardian Angels I: Scripture
June 13, 2011 By
St. Michael’s Series on the Guardian Angel: Guardian Angels in Scripture First, there is a world-view that we should know of (and accept): the spiritual world is real. Related to this, there really are angels – both good and bad. Their story is not our story, but it does intersect in places (especially in worship […]
20110517 Uploading Minds, Bin Laden, and Death
May 16, 2011 By
Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen! It is such a joy to be back in the OrthoAnalytika studio (which, by the way has moved again… this time into a dedicated man-cave in the attic). Today, we are testing a new format: I have created a new podcast (OrthoAdoration) for sharing the sounds of worship […]
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. […]
