The early Church understood time through two words with two distinct meanings: Chronos and Kairos.  What each one means, and what it means for us as Christians today, is discussed in this episode featuring a discussion with Peter Ibrahim the founder of the St. Jacob of Serugh Choir in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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E16: Chronos and Kairos feat. Peter Ibrahim

E16: Chronos And Kairos feat. a discussion with Peter Ibrahim

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E18: Theological Awareness Part II

What does it mean to be human?  What does it mean for God to love humanity?  How does this connect to how we educate children (and adults)?  These questions are discussed with Joshua Gibbs, a classical educator.  You can follow him at https://www.gibbsclassical.com

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E19: Philanthropia: Salvation and Education feat. a discussion with Joshua Gibbs

E19: Philanthropia: Salvation And Education feat. a discussion with Joshua Gibbs

What is memory?  How did ancient and medieval Christians understand memory?  What were their memorization techniques and how did these help them develop a robust spiritual life? All these questions and more are answered in this episode, which is a discussion between Daniel Hanna and Katerina Kern of the CiRCE Institute.

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To contact Katerina, email her at katerina@circeinstitute.com

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E20: Memory And Spirituality feat. Katerina Kern

St. Athanasius most well known work On the Incarnation is a classic of early Christianity, but what is not well known is that On the Incarnation is actually Part II of a two part work.  The first part is called Contra Gentes, or Against the Heathen, and it sets up who is Logos and how he relates to the world.  Only after understanding this important first part can one fully appreciate On the Incarnation.

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E21: On the Incarnation Part I with Thilo Young

E21: On The Incarnation By St. Athanasius Part I With Thilo Young

This is the second of a two part discussion on On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius.  We discuss the book's main argument.

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E22: On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius Part 2 with Thilo Young

E22: On The Incarnation By St Athanasius Part 2 With Thilo Young

How can we read the Bible with any type of confidence that we are understanding it correctly.  This is a discussion on how to do so featuring Thilo Young.

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E23: How to Understand the Bible

E23: How To Understand The Bible With Thilo Young

This is an interview with Thilo Young about his book titled "An American Flight to Egypt: A Western Evangelical Discovers the Ancient Faith" that details his and his wife's journey to Orthodoxy  You can purchase the book by clicking this link: https://amzn.to/3H09Jkv

"God is still powerfully and gloriously at work in the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church. This is the account of God drawing a lost, hurt, and spiritually impoverished person to Himself. Deeply reflective. For those of you hurting and unable to let go of the past and to believe freely and fully, God’s work in this couple’s life shows that healing, love, freedom, and satisfaction is possible.

This book will make you laugh and will make you cry… from laughing. Believe me, I laughed out loud in many places. But it is deeply moving, eye-opening, and at moments will make you silent. Such reflectiveness by an individual is rare in this generation, but this type of reflectiveness is the way we become aware of God's work in our lives.

Perhaps, unexpectedly, is that Thilo's conversion story became interwoven with the Divine Liturgy. This is a deeper layer of the story, but I noticed it quickly, and his quotes at the beginning of each chapter help direct your attention as to how the things we pray in the liturgy indeed manifest themselves in our everyday lives. If this seems interesting, it is one of the reasons you should read this book.

Whether you are interested in a conversion account, or whether you want to see a pattern of reflectiveness that you can imitate and implement in your own spiritual lives, or whether you want to see how the liturgy can and is interwoven into our daily lives (only if we pay attention), then you should read this book.

This book shows that the faith of the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church throughout all its ages and wisdom and worship is still making true disciples of Christ to this day."

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E24: Converting to Orthodox Christianity: Author Interview of Thilo Young

Father Gregory Bishay, who has a PhD in computer engineering, robotics, and computer vision (a field of artificial intelligence) joins me for a discussion about artificial intelligence, consciousness, and human identity.

Father Gregory covers the history of computing and digital technology to demystify artificial intelligence and reveals to us where the real threat lies.

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E25: Artificial Intelligence and Humanity feat. Father Gregory Bishay

E25: Artificial Intelligence And Humanity feat. Father Gregory Bishay

In this episode, I interview Veronia Saad, the author of the book Living Theosis, who discusses how the Cappadocian Mothers and the way they lived their lives with God was the basis of the deep theology of the Cappadocian Fathers: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. Gregory of Nyssa. Among the topics that this episode engages with are: womanhood, motherhood, family life, marriage, monasticism, parish life, and Christian transformation.

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E26: The Cappadocian Mothers feat. Veronia Saad

In this episode, Peter Ibrahim joins Daniel Hanna to discuss how the contextual reading (think historical and cultural context) of the Scriptures illuminates ideas that lead to a deeper spiritual life. Ultimately what we find is God's love is brought to the foreground beginning from Genesis 1. Some of the texts we explore are Genesis 1, 2, and 22 and the narrative of Exodus and how when we understand them contextually, it shows how they fit in with other parts of the Scriptures.

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E27: God's Love and the Spirituality of Context feat. Peter Ibrahim

E27: God's Love and The Spirituality Of Context feat. Peter Ibrahim

This audio version covers the analogy of milk and solid food to describe the spiritual condition in the New Testament.  It then considers the right application for using this analogy for pastoral purposes.

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Milk and Solid Food

Milk And Solid Food

This is a comparison of the modern Christian understanding of the work of Christ with the ancient Christian understanding of the work of Christ.  These understandings are not simply differences, but they are two systems of thought.

This is an audio version of my article, "Two Ways to Look At the Work of Christ." The written version can be found at www.danielhannawriter.com/two-ways-to-look-at-the-work-of-christ

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Two Ways to Look at the Work of Christ

Two Ways To Look At The Work Of Christ

Most of us think that context is made up of the words that come before and after the verse we are reading. That is only a very small part of it. Context is much more complex than that, and without a good understanding of it, we can never hope to be able to read and understand the Bible adequately, much less teach it. Yet, there is good news: we can build context to help us understand the Bible.

This is an audio version of my article, "The Spirituality of Context." The written version can be found at www.danielhannawriter.com/the-spirituality-of-context/

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The Spirituality of Context

The Spirituality Of Context

Orthodox Christianity has a distinct character. Salvation is understood as a healing and not as a release from a criminal sentence. Prayer is understood to be a lifting of the heart to be in God and not just petitions. Therefore, many different types of activities can become prayer even such as reflecting or writing a book. These things are not a matter of style, but they are the ethos of Orthodox Christianity.

This is an audio version of my article, "Style and Ethos." The written version can be found at www.danielhannawriter.com/style-and-ethos/

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Style and Ethos

Style And Ethos

There are ingrained false dilemmas (faith vs knowledge; humility vs intelligence) that create pastoral problems in our churches when it comes to developing the spiritual lives of our members. This does not have to be the case.

This is an audio version of my article, "The Spirituality of Education and Experience." The written version can be found at www.danielhannawriter.com/the-spirituality-of-education-and-experience

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The Spirituality of Education and Experience

The Spirituality Of Education And Experience

There are many misconceptions about the role of the Church Fathers and the writings of the early Church in Orthodox Christianity.  I consider the different types of attitudes to approaching the Church Fathers, and how we can spiritually benefit by reading them and developing the mindset of the early Church that they exemplified.

This is an audio version of my article, "Patrolatry vs The Mind of the Fathers."  The written version can be found at http://www.danielhannawriter.com/patrolatry-vs-the-mind-of-the-fathers/

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Patrolatry vs The Mind of the Fathers

Patrolatry Vs The Mind Of The Fathers

God's relationship to history has always been a focus in Christian theology. But what does that mean for us? How can that be applied to our spiritual lives?

This is an audio version of my article, "The Lord of History Part I: The Father." The written version can be found at www.danielhannawriter.com/the-lord-of-history-part-i-the-father

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The Lord of History Part I: The Father

Continuing from where we left off in Part I, Part II explores the spirituality of the mind in the Bible.  In both the Old and the New Testaments, God engaged the mind to think.  In the New Testament both our Lord Jesus Christ and the Apostles utilized reasoning to preach the Gospel. This also continued in the early Church.

This is an audio version of my article, "The Spirituality of the Mind Part II: In the Bible and the Early Church." The written version can be found at http://www.danielhannawriter.com/the-spirituality-of-the-mind-part-ii-in-the-bible-and-the-early-church/

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The Spirituality of the Mind Part II: In the Bible and the Early Church

The Spirituality of The Mind Part II: In The Bible And The Early Church

What role does reflection have in Christianity? How can we practice it? Which parts of the Bible can help us reflect the most?

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Christian Reflection

This is the first episode of "The Mind of the Early Church" podcast.  This episode considers the question whether the early Church is outdated.  It identifies several areas where the early Church's spirituality and insights can deepen our lives today.

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E1: Is the Early Church Outdated?

E1: Is The Early Church Outdated?

What does it mean to read?  While the question may seem to have a very simple answer, it is a lot more complicated.  How we understand the act of reading can affect how we read the Bible or the writings of the early Church.  The Church Fathers themselves had an idea of what it means to read and how this affects our spiritual development.  Their idea also engages rigorously with the best modern theories of what actually happens in the mind when one reads.

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E2: What Does It Mean to Read?

E2: What Does It Mean To Read?

The early Church identified three motivations people had when approaching God.  They called these motivations by the names of Slave, Servant, and Son.  Each one of these motivations had certain psychological characteristics and ways of thinking.  The Church considered the motivation of fear in approaching God to be an approach to God in faith, but one that was less desirable than the motivation of love.  Further, their insights engage well with modern behavioral, cognitive, and developmental psychology.

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E3: The Approach to God: The Slave, the Servant, and the Son

E3: The Approach To God: The Slave, the Servant, and The Son

What is the human being?  Modernity has had a very difficult time trying to answer that question.  Ancient mythology and philosophy all had something to say about the nature of the human being.  The early Church also had a teaching on what it means to be human.  Further, this is brought into focus because the Son of God became human.  The early Church's understanding of the human being also bears on the early Church's understanding of sin and how our Lord Jesus Christ heals sin by His Incarnation.  The early Church's understanding of humanity also engages with modern thinking on education (and how to possibly fix modern educational methods), and modern psychology with respect to emotional regulation.

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E5: The Human Being

What is the Liturgy?  This questions leads to so many different and confused answers.  Some think it is nothing more than a cultural expression.  Others simply pray liturgically without understanding the depth and meaning of the Liturgy.  In short, the Liturgy is a response to God's being and work throughout history especially in our Lord Jesus Christ.  This episode looks at the idea of liturgy in the Old Testament.

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E9: What is the Liturgy?

E9: What Is The Liturgy?

What is the whole point of Christianity?  It is to become the images and likenesses of Christ.  How does this relate to the self?  We become authentic human beings when we find our meaning into growing into the image and likeness of Christ.

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E6: Christ-Centeredness and the Self

E6: Christ-Centeredness And The Self

How do we approach the writings of the early Church as exemplified in the Church Fathers?  This question is the starting point of gaining the ability to read the Church Fathers.  Without having a clear answer to this question, we can never truly benefit from their writings.

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E4: The Writings of the Early Church

E4: The Writings Of The Early Church

This episode features a discussion on the doctrine of the Logos with Thilo Young and Peter Ibrahim.  The doctrine of the Logos is the most foundational doctrine for Christian theology and philosophy.  The Gospel of John says, "The Logos became flesh and dwelt among us...and of His fullness we have all received and grace upon grace" (John 1:14, 16).  This is God's ultimate revelation: it reveals to us who God is, who we are, and what it means for how we should live.  There is also a discussion on the ideas of the Perfect Logos and the seminal logos as discussed in the Church Fathers.  

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E7: The Logos

Education today is viewed as a means to an end: namely a good job, money, and a comfortable life.  But this was not how education was viewed in the ancient world nor by the early Christians.  For the early Christians education was the natural contemplation of God in the world, and the development of the Image of God within by beholding God's work in the world.  This episode is a discussion between Daniel Hanna and Andrew Kern of the CiRCE Institute.

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E8: Education and Spirituality

E8: Education And Spirituality (feat. a discussion with Andrew Kern)

In this episode special guest Father Stephen Freeman and I discuss the relationship between Christ and Morality.

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E12: Christianity and Moral Philosophy feat. Father Stephen Freeman

E12: Christianity And Moral Philosophy Feat. Father Stephen Freeman

Early Christianity had a very strong philosophical understanding of the integration of beauty, goodness, and truth and how the recognition and integration of these three leads to a healthy soul and formative education. This is the second episode of a four part series on Classical Christian Education.

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