Episode 3 of the Modernist Fish podcast is an interview with Orthodox catechumen Ian (a.k.a AverageSoutherner online). We met online earlier this week while debating some sedevacantists and had a great conversation on theology. Today we decided to have another about what unites and still divides us as Orthodox vs. Catholics, what is true vs. false ecumenism, the sad state of sedevacantists like the Dimondites, how to debate heretics with charity, on living a full spiritual life through praying constantly, and more. We had so much to say about all of these topics, that we made it nowhere near other theological issues like Palamism, Hesychasm, and Monarchical Trinitarianism, as well as of course the Papacy and conciliarism, so we hope to have another conversation soon.
Timestamps:
(2:00) Ian's background
(12:30) Resilience of the Russian people's faith
(16:10) Eastern vs. Western theology
(26:15) Jay Dyer
(27:30) Orthodoxy
(28:50) Prayer Rule and a Spiritual Father
(41:23) Cures for Scrupulosity
(43:25) Sedevacantism
(55:15) Debating w. vs w/o Charity
(1:06:19) Ecumenism
(1:11:04) The Dimondites make some valid points
(1:14:51) Comparison between Post Vatican II west and the "Old Believer" schism
(1:23:29) Empathy for the Pope
(1:27:02) Curiosity
(1:32:49) Ora et Labora and entering into eternity
(1:36:22) Fasting
(1:40:05) The Life in Christ
(1:46:11) Constant Prayer
(1:47:59) Labor
Watch the video version of the conversation on YouTube here:
We're all moderns in a modernist world, swamped and distracted from the truth by secularism, "the deep state", the "deep church" and more. And so, we have to put in extra effort to relearn how to live a fully traditional Christian life again. James Green and Tim Dominik are two such "modernist fish" here to journey with you on this process of relearning. Here, we'll discuss theology, philosophy, free will, Catholic spiritual life, politics, history, and more in conversations sure to be full of hot takes, wild claims, and how to see the world as it really is, which is most definitely not what the world has been telling you it is.
This is the podcast accompaniment to the Grain of Wheat Substack at grainofwheat.substack.com and conversations will often parallel or accompany written pieces from the site, with audio versions of selected articles also to be made available on this podcast feed.
Oh, and also just like our Substack page, everything somehow relates to John 12:24!
(Music is "Chant of the Ancients" by Cheryl Vera licensed for reuse with attribution and a public domain version of the 13th century Spanish song "Santa Maria, Strela do Dia")
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