Book Discussion – Song of the Sirin with Nicholas Kotar

Listen as Nicholas Kotar talks about the benefits of using fairly tales to teach and evangelize and how he does this in his book, The Song of the Sirin.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! Here is Nicholas’ Kotar’s blog Here is the AFR version of Nicholas Kotar’s blog Here is a link to […]

Homily – Get a Job!

What is the one thing needful?  What is sin?  How is being a good human like working at a corporation?  Today’s homily helps answer those questions.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! +++ Homily on the Parable of the Sower Luke 8:5-15 The unexamined life is not worth living; we are called to live […]

Bible Study 22 – Family Trouble

In this class, Fr. Anthony talks about the ambiguity of names in the Bible and why people get hurt when they go against God’s will (e.g. the the burning of part of the camp, the quail plague, and Miriam’s leprosy).  We had to use our back-up recording which doesn’t pick up the audience well (please […]

Notes from a teaching Divine Liturgy

These are the notes from the teaching Divine Liturgy we celebrated for our children and youth (of all ages!) on 10/22/17.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! +++ St. Mary’s (Pokrova), Allentown PA Notes for the Teaching Liturgy 22 October 2017 Before the service. After attending the Divine Liturgy at Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, […]

Book Discussion – The Shack

Why might an Orthodox Christian read The Shack?  Why might it better not to?  Fr. Anthony shares and evaluates many of the critiques of the The Shack, putting it within the context of evangelism.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! +++ Book Discussion on The Shack (10/19/2017) St Sophia Seminary Library Fr. Anthony Perkins […]

Homily on Christ the Hero

Who is Christ?  Why did He suffer and die for us who could nothing for him in return?  This isn’t a “live” recording (the recorder cut out too early), but a (fairly dull) reading of the homily notes.  Enjoy! Check out this episode! +++ Homily Notes: I AM a Hero Romans 5: 1-10; Luke 6:31-36 […]

Bible Study 22 – Leviticus and the Destruction of the Devoted

How (not) to make the Bible say the opposite of what it means.  Examples from Numbers on how to draw out Scripture’s deeper meaning. Check out this episode! +++++ OT Bible Study #21: No Redemption? Plus the Spiritual Interpretations of Scripture Make the pure light of Your divine knowledge shine in our hearts, Loving Master, […]

20171001: Homily on How to Deny Yourself

In this homily for the Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross, Fr. Anthony talks about what it means to “deny yourself” and follow Christ and why doing it wrong can cost a man his soul.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! ++++++++++ Homily notes: Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross Galatians 2:16-20; […]

Book Discussion: Lynette Hull on Iconography

http://traffic.libsyn.com/orthoanalytika/20170921-IconographyBookDiscussion.mp3 This month (September 2017), the St. Sophia Seminary Library Book Discussion Group invited iconographer Lynette Hull to speak about “The Art of Seeing; Paradox and Perception in Orthodox Iconography” by Fr. Maximos Constas. Enjoy the show! Check out this episode! *** Here is Lynette Hull’s review of the “The Art of Seeing” at the Orthodox […]

20170827 – Tear Down That Wall

In this episode, Fr. Anthony describes (and acts out, although you’ll just have to imagine that) the Gospel in terms of the breaking down of the wall we have built up between us, Him, and our inheritance.  Enjoy the show! Check out this episode!