Context Matters

We continue the conversation about sacred place, but we focus this week on pilgrimage. Fr. Andrew describes his experience at Mt. Athos, and we discuss what makes some places more ...

How does someone move from an Evangelical to an Orthodox church? Father Andrew Stephen Damick joins us this week to talk about what drew him into the Orthodox Church and towards or...

In Part 2 of the conversation with Protodeacon Paul Drozdowski, we talk about if you "write" an icon or "paint" an icon and how an iconographer go about creating a new icon. Pour y...

In Part 1 of the conversation with Protodeacon Paul Drozdowski, we talk about what training he had to become a world renowned iconographer, how an icon functions in worship, and, o...

What do the earliest paintings of Mary tell us about how the early Christians perceived her? Join me as I talk with Frederica Mathewes Green about the historical view of the Theoto...

What did the earliest Christians think of Mary the mother of Jesus? What stories were told of her before she became a part of official Christian dogma? Frederica Mathews-Green invi...

What does Deuteronomy have to say to a modern society in a pandemic? And a fantastic trip down memory lane with all kinds of special guests....

What happened to split the singular church into the Western and Eastern Church? Who belongs to which traditions, and why haven't they been successful at reconciliation?...

What was the purpose of the early Church Councils and why should we care?...

We think of the Bible as one singular book that was given to the church, but we forget that  people chose the scrolls and the letters that would belong to the biblical canon, and t...

Letter Writing…Harmony Across Differences…Women in the Church. These are all topics Dr. Nijay Gupta addresses this week as we continue to get to know the Apostle Paul....

As we continue this series that follow the Christian story as it developed in Jewish context and then spreads to a gentile context before severing itself from its original roots, w...