Down The Road A Podcast for CrossRoad Alumni and Friends

Start date: October 2010 883 minutes, 43 seconds in 21 episodes

This podcast series seeks to carry on the mission of CrossRoad and inspire young adults to travel the road of Christ, for it is in Him we find direction, meaning, hope, love, and answers.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
Jul 27, 2012	The Restoration of Humanity in Christ Fr. Eugen Pentiuc connects the creation narrative with the reality of the incarnation. Click to play	44:41
Jul 26, 2012	The Three Steps of Fashioning Humanity Using the Genesis Creation narrative, Fr. Eugen Pentiuc guides the CrossRoad students through the relationship between God and humanity and between man and woman. Click to play	49:26
Jul 25, 2012	The Christian Bible: Unity in Diversity Fr. Eugen Pentiuc examines the use of metaphor and the importance of maintaining a sense of wonder. Click to play	53:29
Jul 24, 2012	Scripture and Tradition Fr. Eugen Pentiuc explores the intimate relationship between scripture and tradition. He emphasizes the centrality of the biblical text. Click to play	56:11
Jul 19, 2012	The Orthodox Faith Through Icons Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas explores the Icon as a visual, graphic Gospel and teacher of the Faith. Click to play	52:59
Jul 19, 2012	The Holy Mysteries of the Sacraments Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas discusses the sacraments of Marriage and Baptism. Click to play	51:39
Jul 18, 2012	The Teachings of the Orthodox Faith Through the Liturgy Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas discusses preparation for Baptism and its theology. He finishes with an exploration of the Anaphora of the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil. Click to play	49:33
Jul 17, 2012	Early Church History Through the Liturgy Fr. Alkiviadis Calivas discusses church life in the first century, the celebration of the Lord’s Day, the development of the parish, and church history through the lens of Martyrdom and architectural setting. Click to play	63:20
Jul 11, 2012	Putting It All Together: The Church and the Sacraments In his fourth and final lecture, Dr. Demetrios Katos discusses questions such as: In what way might the Eucharist or baptism be a mystery and what does it reveal about God? What are some ways in which we become aware of the Church being more than simply our local community? Finally, what does it mean to be a truly sacramental Church? Click to play	47:18
Jul 10, 2012	The Challenges of Faith, or How Theology Should Be Done In his third lecture, Dr. Demetrios Katos addresses the ways in which theology is scientific, why we should never say “mere symbol” in Orthodox thought, what we mean by essence and energies, what we mean by a personal God, and how the Bible and other sources are used in theology.	50:44
Jul 09, 2012	Trinity and Christology Dr. Demetrios Katos discusses why the study of the Bible and theology are so important, why we bother with arcane and abstruse doctrines of the Trinity, and why we should care about our belief that Jesus is fully God and fully man.	51:43
Jul 06, 2012	Human Nature In this first of four lectures, Dr. Demetrios Katos, Dean of Hellenic College, addresses such questions as: Why should we develop language like body, soul, spirit, and heart? How are they useful? How might they be dangerous?	58:10
Jul 03, 2012	Jesus Christ as Great High Priest, Lamb of God, King of God’s Kingdom, and Suffering Servant Fr. Thomas Hopko discusses He who offers and is offered on our behalf to God the Father on the Cross as the perfect sacrifice that saves us from our sins and transgressions and puts us right with God.	53:10
Jun 28, 2012	Jesus as Teacher, Prophet, Word, and Wisdom of God This is the second in Fr. Thomas Hopko's series of three lectures for CrossRoad. Fr. Tom discusses the Lord as the Messiah who saves us from ignorance, foolishness, and insanity.	51:47
Jun 27, 2012	Who Do You Say That I Am? This is the first in Fr. Thomas Hopko's series of three lectures for CrossRoad. Fr. Tom discusses the person and works of Christ according to the four Gospels.	60:50
Jan 12, 2012	The Jesus Prayer Michael Tishel, the new director of the CrossRoad program at Hellenic College, presents Dr. George Stavros on the Jesus Prayer. Dr. Stavros heads up the Counseling, Psychology, and Religion doctoral programs at the Boston University School of Theology. Here he speaks at a parish retreat at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Weston, Massachusetts.	20:25
Feb 01, 2011	Bishop Savas of Troas In this episode of Down the Road, Dr. Ann Bezzerides and Daniel Belonick talk with His Grace Bishop Savas of Troas, Director of the Office of Church and Society for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, about his vocational journey.	13:49
Jan 04, 2011	Daily Scripture Reading: Part Two Daniel Belonick continues his discussion with Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos about daily scripture reading, this time focusing on how to approach passages that are difficult to understand.	14:08
Dec 07, 2010	Daily Scripture Reading: Part One In this episode, former CrossRoad assistant director Daniel Belonick discusses reading and understanding scripture with CrossRoad professor Fr. Theodore Stylianopoulos.	14:46
Nov 09, 2010	Facebook In this episode of Down the Road, CrossRoad Director Mary Long discusses Facebook, personhood, and community with CrossRoad alumnus Jonathan Resmini.	11:55
Oct 12, 2010	Love In this introductory episode, CrossRoad professor Fr. Thomas Hopko discusses two questions: (1) Who is the God that is calling us?; and (2) What is the definition of love?	13:40