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Glory to God
Thoughts and reflections on Orthodox theology and life
Fr. Stephen is the priest at St. Anne Orhodox Church (OCA) in Oakridge, TN. He attended Furman University in Greenville, S.C., graduating in 1977 with a B.A. in Classical Languages. He received his M.Div. degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL in 1980. He was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church (Anglican) in 1981 and served parishes in the Carolinas and Tennessee.
In 1991 he received an M.A. in Systematic Theology from the Graduate School of Religion at Duke University, writing his thesis on “The Icon as Theology.”
After many years of study and conversations, Fr. Stephen and his family were received in the Orthodox Church at Holy Apostles’ Orthodox Church in Columbia, S.C., in February of 1998. He was immediately appointed as lay pastor for the newly-founded mission of St. Anne in the Knoxville area of Tennessee and was ordained as an Orthodox priest in March of 1999.
His weblog “Glory to God for all Things,” has quickly become one of the most read Orthodox sites on the Web, being translated frequently in Romanian, French and Serbian, by enthusiastic readers. You can reach him at .
Visit our Schedules page to see when this podcast will be broadcast on Ancient Faith Talk.
Programs:
Struggling in a One-Storey Universe
Posted Friday, November 23, 2007
Fr. Stephen describes the spiritual warfare that Christians are to engage in as a battle within the heart - which is where we find the very depths of heaven.
Christianity In A One-Storey Universe - Part 5; Windows to Heaven
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007
Fr. Stephen looks at the way icons help us to see the world as it truly is rather than as a window to a "second storey."
Christianity In A One-Storey Universe - Part 4; Christian Atheism
Posted Friday, November 09, 2007
Continuing with his illuminating series, in Part 4 Fr. Stephen Freeman discusses those (both non-Orthodox and Orthodox) for whom knowledge of God is but a relationship with a book (albeit a sacred book) or with ideas about God. These people are what Fr. Freeman calls "practical atheists." "Although a person may espouse a belief in God, it's quite possible for that belief to be so removed from everyday life that God's non-existence would make little difference."
Christianity In A One-Storey Universe - Part 3; God In The Ordinary
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007
"It's not until we cease to divide the world into ordinary and extraordinary, into usual and unusual, into sacred and secular, that we will have either the possibility of knowing God, much less living the Christian life." -- Fr. Stephen Freeman
Christianity In A One Storey Universe - Part 2
Posted Saturday, October 27, 2007
Fr. Stephen continues his look at the world from an Orthodox perspective.
Christianity In A One Storey Universe - Part 1
Posted Friday, October 19, 2007
In his inaugural podcast, Fr. Stephen describes the Orthodox view of the world in terms we can all understand.
