Modernist Fish Podcast Episode 1: Why Byzantine?

Episode 1 of the Modernist Fish podcast features a discussion between James Green and Timothy Dominik about the relationship and differences between the Roman and Byzantine Rites, why Tim became Byzantine, the differing strengths and weaknesses of being one or the other, and what each Rite has to offer the other.We live-streamed our discussion originally on Rumble earlier today, but had some minor confusion at the beginning of our discussion and one of our computers randomly shutting down in the middle, so the audio version has been lightly edited for clarity. The end product is a little sub-optimal still, but we will hopefully have technical details improved a bit by the time of our next interview show. Thank you for your patience.Modernist Fish features interviews and discussions about all the same sorts of topics covered on this site along with audio versions of some of our most popular essays. It is available through this Substack newsletter alongside YouTube, Rumble, and various other podcast platforms:Podcast Summary: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" in this modernist pond, here to journey with you in this process of relearning how to be a Christian again. Here, we'll discuss theology, philosophy, free will, the 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!(Podcast intro music by Charl Vera: “Chant of the Ancients”)Thanks for reading Grain of Wheat! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit grainofwheat.substack.com