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In keeping with a running theme over the past few days of online tools for Orthodox internet explorers, it's high time we consider how we keep our brains absorbing good stuff once the Sunday Feast starts wearing off. Yesterday's post on the winners of the ECNMA contest reminded me of a couple of items worth highlighting.
In my humble opinion, special bonus points are due to Molly Sabourin. She recently had her first book published, coincidentally titled Close to Home after her blog and podcast. You can find it at Conciliar Press.
I love her erudite, real, raw revelations of the rubber-meets-road nexus of the unchanging tenets of Orthodoxy with the more tangible, day-to-day distractions that force us to apply it in the midst of challenge. Is it just for Orthodox moms? Well, if it is, I guess I'd make a good mother. Click here to subscribe for free at the iTunes Store.
Also of note is Kevin Allen's The Illumined Heart (click for free subscription through iTunes). If you have a daily commute like I've had, you can do a lot worse than to pipe this into your ears. His assortment of guests range from the obscure to the household name, but are always interesting. Listening to him assumes that you've already steeled yourself with the scripture readings and the kontakion and apolytikion for the day, of course.
Finally, let me send you off to Dr. Jeannie (Eugenia) Constantinou's Search the Scriptures. This Southern Californian Greek Orthodox Presvytera works at a private Catholic university and expounds on the Old Testament in a way that would make Jonathan Edwards shiver if he were still around today. I gotta give massive props (or whatever Greek word passes for "props," maybe ..."kudos?") to anyone who manages to pull off "Intro to the Bible, 74th lesson on Genesis, chapter 3" and not just keep, but compel, our interest week after week. Ok, I might be exaggerating on lesson 74. But not by much. Check her out.
There are plenty more, but those are the biggies that have been keeping my interest recently.
Question: What are the podcasts that YOU enjoy listening to? Leave a comment here, or drop me an email. I can mention others in a later article or even link to them permanently off to the right side of this blog.
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Hi Jeffrey,
Presvytera Constantinou's Search the Scripture is definitely one of my favorites. I have also benefitted a great deal from Fr. Tom Hopko's Speaking Truth in Love and The Names of Jesus. I feel like I am sitting in a seminary classroom when I listen to Fr. Tom's lessons!
Great suggestion, Jack!
You know that he married a daughter of Alexander Schmemann, right?
I'm wondering if we'd all sound like seminary professors if we married daughters of Alexander Schmemann. I mean, SOMETHING must be rubbing off there!
It's almost unfair. Almost. But not quite.
I'm grateful for his teaching too! For both of them, really.
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