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Abraham at the End of the World
Jun 23, 2025
Gifts and Talents on the Road to Hell
May 29, 2025
Behind Every Rock and Tree - An Allegory
Jul 22, 2024
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Jun 22, 2024
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Dec 1, 2023
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 6/23/25 | Abraham at the End of the World | Fr. Stephen looks at the story of the “Hospitality of Abraham” (Gen. 18) and his conversation with God concerning Sodom and Gomorrah, and sees in it a lesson for our time. | — | ||||||
| 5/29/25 | Gifts and Talents on the Road to Hell | Modern management theory has crept its way into Christian thought over the years, suggesting that parishes are best served when we are sorted into our gifts and talents slots. Fr. Stephen looks instead at the Biblical description of the Church in which our weaknesses rather than our strengths are to be valued. | — | ||||||
| 7/22/24 | Behind Every Rock and Tree - An Allegory | Fr. Stephen Freeman looks at the “allegorical” or “symbolic” reading of Scripture - and its importance for our daily life. | — | ||||||
| 6/22/24 | Love and Freedom | Fr. Stephen Freeman looks at the mystery of love and freedom, and the limits God places on Himself as He raises us, by love, to be His “equals." | — | ||||||
| 12/1/23 | A Mediated Presence - Thank God | Fr. Stephen Freeman shares about the importance of the sacraments in our lives - particularly in light of the Bible verse that says, “There is but one mediator between God and man, the man, Christ Jesus.” | — | ||||||
| 10/13/23 | Transformation and Forgiveness | Fr. Stephen Freeman looks at our transformation into the image of Christ and the forgiveness of our sins in terms of concrete reality - thinking through the work that God is doing in us. | — | ||||||
| 9/11/23 | The Singular Goodness of God | It is one thing to believe that God exists. But beyond that, it is important, even vital, that God is good. Fr. Stephen Freeman explores this importance. | — | ||||||
| 9/2/23 | The Peaceable Kingdom in a World at War | Fr. Stephen Freeman reflects on the nature of the Kingdom of God and its distinct reality when compared to the wars and struggles of the secularized world. | — | ||||||
| 5/11/23 | The Meekness of God | We rarely think of God as meek. Instead, we picture Him as mighty, powerful, and overwhelming. Fr. Stephen Freeman looks at a number of clear indications in Scripture concerning what we know of God through the revelation of Christ. God is meek. | — | ||||||
| 12/15/22 | Providence and the Music of All Creation | Ever wonder what the phrase, “the Divine Energies,” means? Fr. Stephen looks at its inner depths and its constant place in our lives. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good! His mercy endures forever! | — | ||||||
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| 10/3/22 | Marriage Is a Lifetime of Suffering | Fr. Stephen Freeman offers some honest thoughts on the sacrament of marriage and its importance in our culture. | — | ||||||
| 9/16/22 | Will there be Faith on the Earth? | Fr. Stephen speaks of the difficulties and trials of those coming to faith in God and the challenges facing our children. | — | ||||||
| 9/7/22 | The One-Storey Universe and Icons: Music from Another Room | Fr. Stephen Freeman speaks on icons as doors that open onto other rooms. He also speaks about how we view evil in this understanding of God's world. | — | ||||||
| 8/26/22 | Nothing But the Whole Truth | Fr. Stephen looks at Orthodoxy and our lives as a matter of the "whole" truth, rather than a "one-sidedness." He urges us to press forward into the whole truth of Christ. | — | ||||||
| 8/25/22 | All the Fullness of God | In this podcast, Fr. Stephen speaks about the Orthodox use of the word "fullness," both as a description of the Church but also, and especially, as a description of what we long for in the Christian life. | — | ||||||
| 8/24/22 | Walking in a Lost World | Fr. Stephen Freeman describes a reading project, comparing the writings of Richard Leigh Fermor (1933), to those of Nick Hunt (2011) as they made walks across Europe. Fermor's descriptions belong to a world that has disappeared, while those of Hunt seem thin and attenuated. They point towards much deeper realities of our modern world. | — | ||||||
| 8/1/22 | The Goal of a Lesser Life | Fr. Stephen Freeman offers thoughts on the virtue of contentment and its place in the spiritual life. | — | ||||||
| 7/15/22 | Drag My Soul to Paradise | Fr. Stephen Freeman offers some thoughts on one of the more common Morning Prayers for the Orthodox, in which we pray, “O Lord, Save me whether I want it or not.” It is a hopeful meditation. | — | ||||||
| 12/25/21 | Second Thoughts on Success | Fr. Stephen Freeman examines in some depth why success and progress are not the right measures of the spiritual life. | — | ||||||
| 12/25/21 | The Community We All Need | Community is rooted in a mutual need, and so depends on our weakness. Fr. Stephen Freeman tells us that this is God's intention for the Church. | — | ||||||
| 12/25/21 | Christianity in a One-Storey Universe - Part 3; God in the Ordinary | "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 | — | ||||||
| 12/22/21 | Literalism and the Other Word | Fr. Stephen Freeman looks at the notion of "allegory" as it is used in the New Testament and in the Orthodox worldview. He also considers the true nature of "literalism" and how we should understand it. | — | ||||||
| 11/3/21 | Scarcity and Abundance in a One-Storey Universe | In this talk Fr. Stephen continues with the imagery of the One-Storey Universe, but uses it to challenge our sense of finitude and scarcity and instead boldly proclaims that the risen Christ has raised us to a kingdom where we are not bound by limits, but by the endless abundance of His love. | — | ||||||
| 11/3/21 | Christianity in a One-Storey Universe - Part 5; Windows to Heaven | 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 story." | — | ||||||
| 11/3/21 | Christianity in a One-Storey Universe - Part 4; Christian Atheism | Continuing with his illuminating series, in part four 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." | — | ||||||
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