Young Penitent

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...

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...