Young Penitent

Tim Kirby is the animating force behind the American Village in Russia. Tim is an American expatriate who moved to Russia in 2006 and is now the host of the YouTube channel Tim Kirby Russia. The American Village is a project which will settle Westerners on individual plots of land in a tract of land in the Serpukhov district South of Moscow. The village is not yet built; the people who are moving...

Recently there was an article published in the online magazine Tablet about the phenomenon of the Orthobro. Naturally the article wasn't entirely flattering, but we didn't expect it to be. What this article tells us, however, is that Orthodox Christianity is entering into the mainstream consciousness of America, and the Orthobro is one of the reasons why. Eighteen years ago when I first di...

One of the most popular genres of Orthodox YouTube videos is that of the conversion story. Usually the title is something like "my journey to Orthodoxy." I made one of these videos and I was surprised to see how popular it was. I then realized that this type of video is a kind of low-hanging fruit; people like to watch these testimonials. Macarius Johnson has taken the "journey to O...

I am excited to bring to my audience the guest for this episode. I first heard of Fr. John A. Peck when he was a guest on the @Counterflow podcast and I was impressed with Fr. John's presentation style. I then found out that he has his own show on Rumble called Ecclesioclasm (https://rumble.com/user/frjohnpeck) which I also highly recommend. Ecclesioclasm is a weekly show in which Fr. John bre...

Returning as an honored guest to the channel to talk about the Orthodox approach to evangelism is my spiritual father Abbot Tryphon. Abbot Tryphon is Abbot of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island in the Salish Sea and author of the Morning Offering. This week the monastery is hosting a retreat for the St. John Brotherhood of the Salish Sea and since I am present at the retreat I thought...

In this episode I will be interviewing Abbot Tryphon on the subject of the importance of male friendships. We will also be discussing the Salish Brotherhood of St. John the Wonderworker. Abbot Tryphon is the founder of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery and author of the well-known blog The Morning Offering. One of the themes that he often talks about is the importance of male friendships. Human socie...

Today we are going to have a conversation with Raphael Fiedler from the YouTube channel Orthodox Review "the most uneducated educational show on the internet." His channel is a valuable resource for Orthodox Christians when it comes time to buy a prayer book, among other books and items which may be used for devotion in the home. The basic premise of his channel is to provide reviews for...

The internet is home to many and varied subcultures, and Orthodoxy on the internet is no exception. Embedded in the heart of the Orthodox YouTube subculture is Jerry from the channel Exposing Powerful Lies. Jerry is a moderator for many channels, including that of Jay Dyer, and he seems to have his finger on the pulse of whatever might be going down on YouTube. I have invited Jerry on the channel...

We are very fortunate today to have as a guest Klaus Kenneth. Klaus has an incredible life story to share with us, which has been outlined in his autobiographical book "Born to Hate Reborn to Love." He has experienced so much in his life that you would think that he had lived three or four lifetimes. Klaus came from adverse conditions in his childhood and grew up having hatred in his hea...

Today I welcome on as a guest the well known Fr. John Whiteford, rector of Saint Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas. Fr. John is an expert in liturgics, serving as the editor for the annual St. Innocent Liturgical Calendar (a resource which explains how to put together the services of the Church). I have drawn the inspiration for the topic of today's interview from an article which Fr. Joh...

Today we welcome to the channel best-selling author Michael Witcoff, who has just recently published his third book titled "Fascism Viewed From the Cross." With this book Michael is firmly establishing himself as an author, following the publication of his first book "On the Masons and Their Lies" and his second book "Theopoetica." His latest work is a side by side co...

Brother Nathanael is a monastic with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Of Russia (ROCOR) where he is blessed by his Bishop, Archbishop Kyrill of San Francisco, to pursue his public ministry. Brother Nathanael speaks and writes as a former Jew--now an Orthodox Christian--and not in any official capacity with ROCOR. After eight years of monastic communal life (1996-2005), Brother Nathanael has bee...

On Sunday, June 25th, 2023, I conducted this interview with "The Unknown Iconographer." The subject would only agree to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity, in keeping with the ancient iconographic tradition. The iconographer tells of his journey as an Okie who became a Christian and moved to Russia in the mid-1990's soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. He came to Russia...