Recently Transcribed Episodes

A Voice From The Isles
Saints Alive

Episode date: June 30, 2011
Transcript published: June 30, 2012

We celebrate today all saints of Britain and Ireland, the saints of these British Isles. Yet if we look at the Calendar and Lectionary, we are informed that we are also celebrating “All Saints of Russia, All Saints of Romania, All Saints of Mt Athos and All Saints of Palestine.” In other words, we are celebrating those saints who live where we live. We are celebrating those saints who have lived and died where we live and die. We are celebrating those saints who are closest to us.

So today is not a celebration of being British or Irish. Today is not a nationalistic feast. Today is a celebration that we have saints within…

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Faith and Philosophy
The Naked Public Square, Part Two: Orthodoxy and the Academy

Episode date: July 04, 2011
Transcript published: May 15, 2012

This week’s topic is The Naked Public Square, Part Two: Orthodoxy and the Academy. Oh, I know. I promised you a podcast on the Pro-Life Movement. And I still intend to infuriate some of you with that podcast. But today, I want to talk about the place of Orthodoxy in the modern academy.

Recently, St. Vladimir’s hosted a conference on Orthodoxy and higher education. I did not have the opportunity to attend, but I am grateful that our friends at AFR were there to record the talks. I’ve not had a chance to listen to all of them. But I was particularly impressed and intrigued by Fr. John Behr’s opening remarks.…

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Frederica Here and Now
The St. Photios Shrine

Episode date: May 09, 2012
Transcript published: May 14, 2012

Frederica: I’m in St. Augustine, Florida today at the St. Photios Shrine. And a little bit of history that I never knew, we just had the first, hopefully first annual, women’s retreat here at the shrine. We had a wonderful time this Saturday. It was a lot of fun.

But I had heard, “How did Orthodoxy come to America?” A lot of people point to St. Herman, and more recently there’s been talk of a Virginia gentleman before the Civil War, who apparently was a convert to Orthodoxy. A story went around the Internet last summer that the first shot in the Civil War was fired by the little girl who…

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The Cambridge Orthodox Forum
What Is Theology?

Episode date: March 20, 2012
Transcript published: May 14, 2012

David Frost: Ladies and gentlemen, I really am not going to attempt, for the umpteenth time to introduce Metropolitan Kalistos Ware. But I would like to thank him for making a trip, which I know he does not enjoy, from Oxford to Cambridge; what I would consider a holy and monastic hour coming way over here and going back.

I wake up at night wondering what we are going to do when the times comes, he decides he must stop traveling and teaching to the extent he does. But thank God my lack of faith is once again defeated. He seems to be able to go on indefinitely to this kind of service for us, and it is wonderful. So without…

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Simply Orthodox
St. Symeon The New Theologian Speaks

Episode date: September 08, 2008
Transcript published: May 09, 2012

Religious but lost—that’s what some of the Pharisees were in Jesus’ day. They observed all the outward rules and regulations of their religion, but missed the very heart of the Mosaic Law. They meticulously went through all their rituals, but had no real relationship with God. There was outward obedience to rules, but all the time they were internally rebellious against the Lord. There was no love in their hearts. They were religious, but lost. In Matthew 23, Jesus described the religious experts of his day in this way:

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and…

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