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  1. "Orthodoxy is teaching me not to flinch. It's teaching me to embrace the Light when it exposes me" - Fr Turbo
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  2. My dad is black and my mom is from the Philippines. I always struggled with identity until I became Orthodox. I was pretty much ostracized by black people because I'm quiet and shy and I was always involved in things that black people thought was weird or different. Th black people always said I hated myself and I hate "my people". I began to ponder who my people actually are. At the time we're my people these black people who don't seem to like me very much or my family in the Philippines thousands of miles and an ocean away? Because I wasn't liked very much by black people I never put too much stock in my skin color (glory to God) to make it an idol I serve. When my husband and I were catachumens our priest who is from Lebanon said something in his homily that just made my struggles with race/ethnicity click for me. He said that as sinful people we care too much and involve ourselves in too many things that are not important. He said we make them important but we have to ask ourselves do these things that we make important ultimately matter to God. Then he said " if it doesn't matter to God it shouldn't matter to you". After I heard this I began to think does my racial identity truly matter to God? Does the fact that my great great great great grandparents on my dad's side served as slaves on a masters plantation get me automatic admission to heaven . Is God going to factor my race into my eternal salvation? God isn't petty and so I eventually realized no my race/ethnic is not number 1 on the list when it comes to my eternal salvation. There is such freedom in Christ and when I became Orthodox that was the moment I came home to claim my true identity in Christ.
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  3. I absolutely ove the brotherly team-up. We want more of this!
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  4. Christ is risen ☦️ May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ Thank you very much for this talk!
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  5. This podcast was a somewhat surreal intersecting of “this little corner of the internet” that brought me toward orthodoxy and my newish, real world community at Saint John of Ladder in Greenville. I took Jonathan’s advice to “go to church” and it’s made it all become real. It’s not necessarily easy, but it’s definitely the direction to move.
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  6. I’m thankful for the orthodox internet. I heard many perspectives that I wouldn’t have had In Real Life. I found Fr Peter heers, Constantine Zalalas, plus WAWTAR! If I only dealt in real life I’d be stuck with whatever I heard from the local yokels— I wouldn’t have even found the local church without the internet. I think a mix of both is good !
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  7. Paul, thank you for this. I’m a disenchanted evangelical former pastor and missionary. Your voice is helping me immensely.
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  8. Love this interview. Cyprian (Vin Armani) was one of the two people who inspired me to look into Orthodoxy. Had never heard of it before and at the time was not even a Christian but since finding the Church and Holy Tradition I feel my life transforming. Thank God 🙏
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  9. Lawns are so dumb. I'm with you. Get some goats and a garden and turn that lawn into permaculture. I have a lawn. Leaves in shame.
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  10. 57:44 “we’re rooting for you man,” agreed I just wanna see Pagaue do the best he can with his art cause he’s done so much for us lost young men!
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  11. Fr. Peter is such a blessing for our days! He really strives for a Patristic mind and submits himself to it, and he's always encouraging and telling us to do the same.
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  12. Great topic! Im in the middle of reading "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Usury truly is a dragon that the West has embraced and will eventually lead to our destruction. 😊😢 Drawing the connection between usury, the reformation, the Anglo-Empire and ultimately the coming global security state has helped me reconstruct my worldview, which was shattered in 2020. Not really a happy topic, but it's real. Thanks. I really enjoy your quick little thought provoking podcasts.
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  13. Eugene is a wise man. I really appreciate his point of view. Especially how he connected exegesis with the experience of life. The spiral of history and the reliving of events.
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  14. May we all have your blessings Father Peter ☦️ Hi br. John Here's!
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  15. I work in life sciences and my biggest complaint lately is that there is no life. Thank you for this podcast because people kept looking at me weird when i said this to coworkers
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  16. How does this podcast not have more subscribers. Great discussions here.
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  17. You just won't stop. You have the best guests on!
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  18. That was an excellent interview fellas. I just very recently "stumbled" on one of Paul's interview, maybe like Christianity came upon him, and I am totally emersed in what he has to say. His explanation of how you can honor your/the Creator through creation, is something I can truly relate to, and it has served me very well. He's a messenger.
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  19. This was just absolutely fascinating and beautiful. First time visiting your channel. Been following Paul's writings on his Substack. I'm an Orthodox convert (a lonely one out on the high plains of western Nebraska) from '09. This was so fun and profound! I really enjoy your style (humor!) of conversation. Thank you. Subscribing now.
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  20. And here I am, thinking I’m the only modern person I know who rejects the usury system. Really glad to see someone talking about this elephant in the room. There is a company that pioneered the private car lease called “Half a car”. It was all a plan to sell the same car twice.
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  21. this is my favorite series of yours.
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  22. This was like meeting my husband’s younger self. Graham, I feel like I know you. I thank God for helping you find the words to find yourself to find Him. Thank you, John. Appreciate this pod very much. ❤️- Your Sister in Yeshua, Juliana
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  23. I have often thought of Paul’s writing as terrifyingly optimistic. I think that sums it up quite nicely. One must be courageous to see things “as they are”.
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  24. Ah man, this conversation perfectly explicated everything I've been intuiting. So happy to hear this fleshed out. This whole conversation was poetry.
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  25. Great interview ! We need more interview with Fr Peter
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  26. I'm not Orthodox, and I subscribe to Orthodox Ethos.
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  27. Favorite water episode ever. That woman is brilliant. And her luminous way of thinking comes from her liturgical way of thinking I could watch this podcast again and again God is great John is very good but I would love to see her encounter Peterson what a freaking conversation that would be
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  28. What John said towards the end about churches smoothing out the rough edges by serving the services as much as possible really resonated with me. At least for me, attending as many services as I am able over the last 5 years, has helped smooth out my rough edges. There’s still so much to go, but there has been change by God’s grace, and to His glory.
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  29. Jump around, jump around, Gotta gotta get up to get down.
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  30. Such a great conversation - Thank you!
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  31. My favorite writer
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  32. Heard Martin Shaw on Paul VanderKlay and really excited to hear from him again here!
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  33. Mostly this us just a conversation between brothers. Even if this were true, which it's not, you have deprived yourself from real and genuine conversation. Fr Seraphim would have much to say about this, I think
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  34. Enjoyed this video of Fr Peter and his brother just talking
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  35. Man why your channel have so few views, your stuff is excellent
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  36. Our culture is like all forms of destructive addiction. We’re just gonna have to go thru the chaos of relinquishing responsibility in favour of pleasure until we hit rock bottom. Then the new will begin to emerge.
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  37. 50:00 what you see & hear depends a lot upon where you’re standing. It also depends on the kind of person you are. - Lewis Also, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
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  38. What a beautiful conversations!
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  39. The prodigal son parable is such a beautiful example of human rebelliousness, infinite grace of the father, and also the bitterness of the good son who never left the father’s side. This story was a central comfort in my Christian story!
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  40. More again.. Fr Peter is...human?...weird warm fuzzy.. not sure. Lend little bro some beard.
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  41. This was an amazing conversation that I'm going to have to listen to a few times because her ideas are so intense! I am very grateful for this one! Thank you!
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  42. I love the toast at the end. Thanks John and Jon!
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  43. Absolutely loved and thoroughly enjoyed this conversation! It has surely put my mind in overdrive for various reasons. Cheers from Middle Tennessee!
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  44. Curiosity is that natural part of us that begins our search for truth . Good conversation . Thanks , refreshing .
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  45. At the risk of pedantry, there is one day of creation not called good, the second, when God divides the waters. It's led to an entire tradition of mystical speculation about the meaning, culminating in a wariness of twos and dualistic divisions, and the figure of Benarius. The most immediate interpretation is that the second day sees an unnatural division - water from water, rather than say dark from light. It's somehow necessary for creation but must be treated warily. And what must be avoided are dualisms as the basis for understanding reality - binary logic, you might say. That really misses the point, really falls from what's good.
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  46. Really enjoying these little 2-3 part discussions, John. Keep it up!
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  47. I agree. This was a great conversation. Who knew rabbits could be so interesting?
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  48. this makes me happy
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  49. Regarding acting: I've heard that in Byzantium they did liturgical reenactments of Old Testament events such as the three youths in the furnace. So, that would be a form of acting I guess
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  50. I’m very excited for this interview!
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