What to Do When The Lights Go OutIs artificial intelligence the fourth death of The Enlightenment & should Orthodox Christians even care particularly much?Part 1 of a 2 part conversation.Reference materials for this episode: - The future of AI - https://www.wired.com/story/ai-risk-party-san-francisco/ - AI is making us less smart - https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/Scripture citations for this episode: - Genesis 3 - Tree of Knowledge - Proverbs 1:1-7 - Instruction produces wisdomThe Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon KeesParadosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2023
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How to Be a Winner
Following on our last episode in which we ended with the celebration of the righteous triumph of the gospel, we felt it was important to point out the boundary which must be kept on how we understand this triumph. With the rise of nationalism in the USA, much of it Christian nationalism, as well as reflecting on such relatively recent tragedies as The Balkan war of the 1990's, it is crucial we understand winning as genuine participation in what God is doing rather than us going out into the world, weapons (rhetorical or military) in hand, to do the winning for Him.(we didn't get to all this material, but it is relevant)Reference materials for this episode: - love of place is tied to attachment to possessions - Shepherd of Hermas: parable 1 - https://www.strengholt.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Book-5-hermas-for-website.pdf - our desires must be for virtue & we must not fear death - 2nd Epistle of St Clement: chapter 5 - https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1011.htm Scripture citations for this episode: - dwellers in God’s tent (to the Gentiles) - Ephesians 2: 11-21 - no lasting city (to the Jews) - Hebrews 13:5-17The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon KeesParadosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2023
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Go to a Church You Can’t Understand!
We start season seven off with by urging you to attend a [Orthodox] church you can't understand. Co-host Jim has realized he wasted 15 years of spiritual progress waiting for a local parish to be served in English. He traveled The Balkans enjoying all kinds of church services he couldn't understand a word of during early May & this dovetails with Fr Symeon's recent efforts to fulfill the wishes of Metropolitan Saba to teach Americans in the Antiochian tradition how to fully embrace & actualize this tradition without "becoming Middle Eastern".Reference materials for this episode: - The burning of the relics of St Sava - https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/27/100127-the-burning-of-saint-savas-relics - Episode we did on “change” on a different channel - https://youtu.be/-Z_6hXs_wMc?si=sTsUeGqcGKMLPGY1 - Nikolai of Zica episode - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/14740645Scripture citations for this episode: - Swords into ploughshares - Isaiah 2:1-4 - Let your enemies be scattered - Psalm 68The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon KeesParadosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2023
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What Then Shall We Do?
The fifth Sunday of Lent, the veneration of St Mary of Egypt, is the subject of this season finale episode.Saint Mary did not leave us with insightful writings. Saint Mary left us with an exemplary life we can strive to emulate. Yet, we have almost no details about how she lived her day to day life & we couldn't emulate it anyway because we don't live alone in a desert. But she clearly spent her life cultivating a deep sense of her sinfulness, a deep repentance of her sins, a profound awareness of God's love & a profound joy at God's forgiveness & these are what we can strive, with God's help, to emulate.This is the answer to the question asked of the apostles in the second chapter of Acts after the first preaching of the evangelion of Jesus, The Christ: "what then shall we do?"Reference materials for this episode: Previous episodes - Saint Mary of Egypt: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/8220564 - Sacred Space part 1: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/16010821Complete account of St Mary’s life - https://stmaryofegypt.org/files/library/life.htmScripture citations for this episode:Readings for The Fifth Sunday of Lent - Hebrews 9:11-14 - Mark 10:32-45Luke 9:46-48 - parallel to Mark 10 aboveLuke 9:51-56 - shall we call down lightning & thunder?1 Corinthians 9:24-27 - Run the race to complete it & winThe Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon KeesParadosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2023
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Why Are We Here?
The Fourth Sunday of Lent, The Veneration of St John Cassian, is the subject of this week's episode. Jim reflects on the core beliefs which come even before details about The Trinity, The Incarnation, The Virgin Birth, The Death, Resurrection & Ascension of this incarnate God, the singularity of the church which His apostles established, or the succession of bishops who have preserved the divine revelation which was given to those apostles by the incarnate God.There is someone we have to acknowledge we are, a reality we have to admit is the one in which we live, before we can even begin the lifelong journey of becoming a Christian.Reference materials for this episode: Episodes on St John - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/10364782 - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/14611115Scripture citations for this episode:Matthew 5:17-20 - Torah will not pass awayMatthew 11:25-30 - easy burden, light yokeJohn 10:7-18 - the good shepherd brings abundant lifeRomans 7 - our confusion about our own behaviorPhilippians 3:6 - blameless under TorahThe Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon KeesParadosis Pavilion - https://youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://www.threads.net/@christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comAll music in these episodes is a production of Generative Soundshttps://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comDistribution rights of this episode & all music contained in it are controlled by Generative SoundsCopyright 2021 - 2023
The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Paradosis Pavilion & Generative Sounds which explores the calendar of The ChurchEpisodes are hosted by James John Marks of Chicago, with oversight by Fr Symeon Kees, a priest of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, through which he is currently serving St Raphael Orthodox Church in Iowa City.If this podcast is edifying for you, please consider the entire Paradosis Pavilion catalog as well as the music of Generative Soundshttps://www.youtube.com/@paradosispavilion9555https://generativesoundsjjm.bandcamp.comhttps://www.instagram.com/christiansaintspodcasthttps://twitter.com/podcast_saintshttps://www.facebook.com/christiansaintspodcastIconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these imagesPrints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.comPlease forgive us our shortcomings, and pray for us
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