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Anticipation! It's Making Me Wait




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Abandon the Faith? Really?




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Afraid of the Truth




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Finding Fault Always Fails




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Plain Talk Saves Lives




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Forgetting and Straining




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God Transforms Unfairness to Advantage!




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God Prevails




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We See! Yes, And Your Guilt Remains




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He Did Not Weaken In Faith




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I Don't Believe In Fairness




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How Are The Dead Raised?




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Anticipation! It's Making Me Wait




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If God Is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?




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Watered Down Faith




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Kept Under Restraint




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Saint Steven and Stiff Necks




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Lucia, Saint of Light

Bobby Maddex interviews Katherine Hyde, author of Lucia, Saint of Light.




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The Ancient Faith Prayer Book

Bobby interviews Katherine Hyde, an acquisitions editor at Ancient Faith Publishing, about the new Ancient Faith Prayer Book.




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Food, Faith, and Fasting

Bobby interviews Rita Madden, the author of the new AFP book Food, Faith, and Fasting: A Sacred Journey to Better Health.




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Reclaiming the Atonement

Bobby interviews Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, the author of Reclaiming the Atonement: An Orthodox Theology of Redemption - Volume One: The Incarnation.




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Know the Faith

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Michael Shanbour, the author of the new AFP book Know the Faith: A Handbook for Orthodox Christians and Inquirers.




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A Faith Encouraged

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Barnabas Powell, the author of the new AFP book A Faith Encouraged: A Devotional Guide to Being Orthodox on Purpose.




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Songs of Praise

Bobby Maddex interviews Sylvia Leontaritis, the author of the new AFP book Songs of Praise: A Psalter Devotional for Orthodox Women.




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Songs of Praise

On another live pop-up edition of Ex Libris, Bobby Maddex interviews Sylvia Leontaritis, author of the blog Adventures of an Orthodox Mom and the new AFP book Songs of Praise: A Psalter Devotional for Orthodox Women




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Painting Angels

Bobby Maddex interviews Melinda Johnson, author of the middle-grade novel Painting Angels, which is the third and newest book in her Sam and Saucer series.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 1

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 2

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 3

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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Reconciling Faith and the Theories of This Age: Part 4

The 20/40 Young Adult Ministry of St Joseph Church, Houston, hosted Dr. John Mark Reynolds, Provost of Houston Baptist University (and Orthodox Christian) on four Fridays in March.




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An Introduction to The Saint Constantine School

Dr. John Mark Reynolds introduces The Saint Constantine School, a new K-College Orthodox school.




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The Problem with Edu-tainment

Dr. John Mark Reynolds talks about the separation of education and entertainment.




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Mainstreaming Animal Personhood

Should animals have the same rights of "personhood" as humans?




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Straight Talk About Youth

Dr. Rossi addresses some of the difficult issues that youth today face, and how we can be a healing presence in their lives.




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On Pain and Suffering

Dr. Rossi shares a brief summary of his presentation titled "On Pain and Suffering" at the Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion (OCAMPR) conference held at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA.




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OCAMPR 2019: An Interview with Chaplain Sarah Byrne-Martelli

Dr. Albert Rossi interviews Chaplain Sarah Byrne-Martelli, co-host of the AFR podcast "A Wounded Healer," on the upcoming OCAMPR conference. OCAMPR stands for The Orthodox Christian Association of Medicine, Psychology and Religion.




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What is Faith - St Thomas

Dr. Albert Rossi shares his reflections on faith as seen through the story of St. Thomas' encounter with the risen Jesus.




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Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not - Part 2

Dr. Albert Rossi continues his reflections on the profound statement by St. Silouan the Athonite, "Keep your mind in hell and despair not."




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Keep Your Mind in Hell and Despair Not - Part 1

Dr. Albert Rossi reflects on the profound statement by St. Silouan the Athonite, "Keep your mind in hell and despair not."




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Wisdom of Failure

Dr. Albert Rossi reflects on the impact and opportunity of failures in our lives for spiritual growth.




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Not in Praise of Single Motherhood

Fr. Philip LeMasters maintains that it is no insult to successful single parents to point out the misguided nature of arguments that praise single motherhood as the new norm.




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Two Chairs of Peter: Reform, Orthodoxy and the Papacy

Following yesterday's pontifical election, Fr. Andrew Damick comments on this most recent event as well as the recent election of Patriarch John X of the Holy Synod of Antioch.




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In Praise of Old Women

Fr. Lawrence Farley comments on a strange wedding ceremony and the role of elderly women in guarding the faith.




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In Fairness to Herod

Fr. Lawrence Farley argues that Herod had more insight into the significance of Jesus than do most moderns.




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Male Converts and Female Saints: Strong Women in Orthodoxy and in My Family

Fr. Philip LeMasters marvels at how central the balance of the masculine and the feminine is to our Orthodox faith and spiritual life.




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Sunday of All Saints

Our contemporary culture forms many people who cannot imagine any purpose higher in life than the pursuit of self-centered pleasure on their own terms. Fr. Philip LeMasters explains that on the Sunday of All Saints, the Church reminds us that we are called to follow a very different and much better path.




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Demonizing Dichotomies or a Rainbow Flag

Fr. Lawrence Farley warns us that we can neither demonize the world nor accept all that it offers.




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Teaching Protestants About Saints and Icons

Fr. Philip LeMasters shares what he has learned over the last 25 years of teaching Protestants about saints and icons.




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On the Ukrainian Church Controversy

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick shares his thoughts on the controversial situation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Are we looking at the situation through worldly eyes or through spiritual eyes?




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St. John of Sinai on Sorrow that Produces Joy

In this week’s broadcast, Archimandrite Irenei examines several sections from St John’s Ladder to Paradise, read throughout Great Lent and particularly remembered in this Fifth Week, dealing especially with the paradoxes of spiritual life and the mystery of a "joy-creating sorrow."