Young Penitent

One of my favorite account to follow on X is Fr. Michael Lillie. His posts are always edifying and on point. On a platform which thrives on negative attention, he has managed to build up a sizable following without engaging in negativity. In all the time I have been following him on X I have never once seen him fall into a passionate disagreement with another user. He sets a wonderful example for...

The Bitcoin halving is less than a month away and soon crypto is going to enjoy a fresh new buzz in the news media. This cycle is poised to be stellar because of a number of factors, which we will discuss. Traditional finance has finally come around to embracing crypto with the launching of Bitcoin ETF's. Macro economic factors such as the upcoming presidential election and the loosening of ec...

I recently passed 4,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. When I passed 1,000 subscribers I said that I would celebrate when I passed 2,500 but that number came and went so fast that I didn't have time to record a stream in celebration. In today's stream I will open with a monologue explaining where this channel came from, where I have been, and where I see it going in the future. Also, w...

Back by popular demand! Brother Nathanael is a monk in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). We had him on several weeks ago to discuss why his channel had disappeared from YouTube (he was banned without explanation). We also discussed Brother's conversion to Christianity and the path his life took from the time he first read the Gospel up until today. In our previous intervie...

Fr. Moses is a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He serves at the Holy Mother of God Orthodox Church in Georgetown Texas. He also happens to be a powerlifter and puts up some big numbers. One of his YouTube channels,  @mcphersonbarbell8771  is dedicated to demonstrations of his workouts. Since I am also a powerlifter I thought it would be good to bring him on as a guest to d...

Brother Nathanael is an Orthodox Christian monk in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). This will be a follow-up interview with "Brother" - to see the first interview please watch my video titled "Brother Nathanael...Street Evangelist!" (https://youtu.be/chW9t7fPPIY?si=oUjrpKqK6GDXdIKW) Who is Brother Nathanael? Where does he come from? Why does he wear black...

Today for part three of our series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (twitter) we will be interviewing Thaddeus Patrick. This account caught my attention a few weeks ago when the algorithm on X brought Thaddeus into focus and he was getting a lot of interaction on the platform. I had considered interviewing him previously but this added attention that he was getting caused me to...

We are continuing our series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (twitter). In this our second of the series we will be interviewing Subdeacon John. Subdeacon John is in the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America and posts to X multiple times a day. He has revealed several things about himself, including that he has a call to the priesthood, which is going to b...

Today's stream is going to be the first of what I hope will become a series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (formerly twitter). Our interview will be with Kaleb of Atlanta, one of the most well known and loved personalities on X. His posts are variously educational, insightful, and often humorous. In our interview we will have an opportunity to hear Kaleb's testimony re...

From the outset of my channel I wanted to have a focus on mental health, as I am a person who suffers from a serious mental illness and I can sympathize with others who likewise suffer. In today's stream with Fr. Turbo Qualls we are going to be discussing what is termed by the field of mental health 'depression.' Depression often has a spiritual component to it and can variously be ref...

What are the passions of nature? This is another way of speaking about the natural urges which are planted in our nature for the purpose of procreation; when these urges become disordered we refer to them as the passion of lust. In our modern world the demon of lust has gained an enormous amount of power in society due to the easy accessibility of provocative images through television and computer...

Coming back from a short hiatus from streaming I will have with me as guest on today's show Justin Brannon from the YouTube channel @ArchangelsMedia . You might know Justin from his popular shorts in which he scouts out other YouTubers who are posting cringeworthy takes on the spiritual life and puts these people in their place by giving them the correct teaching of the Orthodox Church. Justin...

In this episode I read White Rabbit's conversion story, with commentary.

X is a platform that is home to a lot of drama. I joined X (when it was still called Twitter) simply as a way to help promote my YouTube channel. When something happens on X, it is sometimes hard to understand the whole picture of the situation if you happened to not be logged in the day of the event. It's easy to miss something, in other words, and it's hard to track down after the fact a...

I had a viewer send me a message a few weeks ago asking about a certain Orthodox book. When I searched the title on Amazon I was stunned to see that the small volume was for sale for $600! I had read the book before, although I didn't own a copy, but this incident sent me down the rabbit hole of looking at rare Orthodox books that are not only hard to find but cost exorbitant amounts of money....

Gary Cattell began preaching Christianity outside of Willard Hall at Penn State University in 1982, which is how he has come to be known as "The Willard Preacher." He began his career in open air preaching as a Protestant, but since his reception into the Orthodox Church in 1999 he as been preaching from the perspective of Orthodox Christianity. Over the years as a preacher he has had th...

At the Faith Unaltered YouTube channel there is a collective of hosts who have had wide ranging conversations on topics related to Christianity. There are hundreds of videos posted on their channel in which they have interviewed a myriad of guests, and so they can tell us better than anyone which ideas are prevalent in our society, and especially within the various Christian denominations. In our...

In this broadcast we will be conducting an interview with the Orthodox Christian iconographer Shayne Swenson. Shayne is an extremely talented artist and it was said of him by another regional iconographer that he is a "miracle." Largely self taught, his icons grace churches, monasteries, and private icon corners around the country (including mine: the icon of the Prophet Daniel which can...

Recently I was introduced to Nomadik Vagabod through a mutual friend. I called him up and was surprised by how much we have in common; our backgrounds were similar, we are both Orthodox, we both rap, and we were born one day apart from each other! He also lives near me so I attended his parish for liturgy and afterwards we chopped it up. Nomadik, besides being a rapper, dj, beatboxer, drummer, and...

Recently there was an article published on the internet stating that Fr. Seraphim Rose has been canonized in a diocese in the country of Georgia. The article references a video which was published on the YouTube channel Punks and Monks in which Metropolitan Nikoloz of the Georgian Orthodox Church makes the statement that Fr. Seraphim had been canonized in his diocese. As this news was being spread...

We welcome back today as a returning guest Fr. John A. Peck! Fr. John knows a thing or two about how to plant a mission church in America. He is the rector of All Saints of North America Orthodox Church in Sun City, Arizona. He has been instrumental in planting five other parishes in Arizona besides his home parish, and there are more being planned. Through the Great Martyr Euphemia Theological Ac...

On Saturday, May 6th, 2023 I was on pilgrimage at All-Merciful Saviour Monastery. During the course of the day I interviewed three of the monks who belong to the monastery which resides on Vashon Island. I asked the same list of questions to each of the monks. In this, the third and final episode of the series, I interview Monk Nicodemus.

On Saturday, May 6th, 2023 I was on pilgrimage at All-Merciful Saviour Monastery. During the course of the day I interviewed three of the monks who belong to the monastery which resides on Vashon Island. I asked the same list of questions to each of the monks. In this, the second episode of the series, I interview Monk Martin.

On Saturday, May 6th, 2023 I was on pilgrimage at All-Merciful Saviour Monastery. During the course of the day I interviewed three of the monks who belong to the monastery which resides on Vashon Island. I asked the same list of questions to each of the monks. In this, the first episode of the series, I interview Monk Paisios.

Meet Bojan Teodosijevic. Bojan is the creator of the Bible Illustrated YouTube channel. On this channel he creates animated videos using hand-drawn illustrations. The videos tell stories from the Bible and the lives of Saints, as well as explain question about Christianity in an easy to understand and light-hearted format (he often incorporates humor as well). He also has a secondary YouTube chann...