Homily - DL3 On the Litanies for Peace
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Today Fr. Anthony continues his series of homilies on the Divine Liturgy (offered every other week, when he serves in Anderson). He explains some of the things the Divine Liturgy does for us and why the Great Litany starts out the way it does. Enjoy the show!
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Homily - Sunday before Theophany
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Fr. Anthony shares thoughts on the meaning of "The Jordan turned back" and its relevance for us today. Enjoy the show!
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The REAL Conspiracy - and how we took it hook, line, and sinker
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Listen to find out which of the many conspiracies is occupying space in Fr. Anthony’s fool head. Without it, the other problems (e.g. injustice, riots, elections, presidential narcissism) would have been handled as normal rather than extra-ordinary problems. We should have seen it coming. From Fr. Anthony's YouTube Livestream. Enjoy the show!
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Gaslighting or Conspiracy? The role of the Pastor in Crazy Times
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Join Fr. Anthony as he talks with Fr. Gregory Jensen, PhD, to get some advice on the role of the pastor in crazy times. It's a difficult conversation, but it's important for us to have trusted friends in our lives who will tell us things we don't want to hear. Fr. Gregory is wise, experienced, and courageous enough to say things that will satisfy precisely no one. Enjoy the show!
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Homily - Patterning the Kingdom
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In this homily given on the Sunday after Theophany, Fr. Anthony continues to take us through the Divine Liturgy, focusing on the opening blessing, "Blessed is the Kingdom" and explaining how the ritual and grace of the Divine Liturgy heals the dysfunction in our minds, our relations, and the world. Enjoy the show!
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Homily on the Sunday before Nativity
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The bulk of the homily is the . After that, Fr. Anthony offers some remarks about the seeming weakness of the Logos in the manger and how it relates to the seeming impotence of our faith in Christ. Enjoy the show!
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Interview with Adam DeVille on Self-Care as Asceticism
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Join Fr. Anthony in Hartwell, GA as he talks with Professor Adam DeVille (University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN) about proper and improper ways of framing self-care, why it is so easy to get it wrong, and why it is important to get it right. Dr. DeVille is the author of Everything Hidden Shall Be Revealed: Ridding the Church of Abuses of Sex and Power. He blogs (prolifically and well) at ”Eastern Christian Books.” There's a bit of ironically timed electronic mischief in the middle, but the worst of it has been edited out (Fr. Anthony's computer froze). This is the audio...
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Homily on the Sunday after Nativity
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On the Sunday we remember the slaughter of innocents, Fr. Anthony asks what we are willing to sacrifice to hold on to our own sins. He forgot his microphone, so this was recorded on his (new) iPhone SE. Oh, and he really did forget where Christ was born (senior moment?).
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Pluralism, Polarization, and Discernment; the Challenge and Promise of Diversity
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One of the challenges of our present spiritual situation is that our society has settled for something less than truth. This affects the quality of our opinions, policies, and judgments and undermines our ability to live and spread the Gospel. An indicator of the seriousness of this is our growing inability to listen to, learn from, and love people who think differently than we do. In this presentation, I frame the situation as a problem of discernment, compare scientific and Orthodox methods of knowing, and describe how we are failing to use either well. I conclude with a discussion of the...
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Professor George Stavros (BU) on Clergy Self Care
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Join Fr. Anthony Perkins in Hartwell, GA as he talks with Professor George Stavros (Boston University) about the internal and external factors that put clergy at risk and how that risk can be mitigated by fellowship, support, and the life in Christ. See Professor Savros' article on the subject here: .
info_outlineThe Sunday before the Nativity is for remembering and celebrating the lives of the "ancestors of God." In this homily, Fr. Anthony encourages us to learn charity towards our neighbors based on the way Scripture (and thus the Holy Spirit) interprets the lives of the heroes of the Old Testament.