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Life Sentences
by Thomas Small
An exclusive Substack podcast presented by Thomas Small. In each episode, he walks you through an ancient spiritual text, revealing the history behind the text and, even more importantly, translating the text into modern terms. You'll be amazed by how relevant ancient Christian wisdom remains to your life today. wisdomreadings.substack.com
Episodes
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Episode 11: Fight wrath with love
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, Evagrius continues to teach us how to combat the demons who attack our tripartite soul, focusing on sloth, vainglory, and pride, but most of all: wrath. Get full...
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Episode 10: Restrain your sensual desires
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers, presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, Evagrius acquaints us further with the demons who attack our tripartite soul, and teaches us how best to combat those demons who target our sensual desire:...
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Episode 9: Get to know your demons
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers, presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, Evagrius Ponticus guides us further into the inner workings of the rational soul, revealing the eight basic demonic temptations which subvert our minds and…
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Episode 8: Love, desire, pleasure, passion
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers, presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, we meet John Cassian’s teacher, Evagrius Ponticus, whose penetrating intellectual vision illuminates the narrow path to purity of heart, and who provides us a...
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Episode 7: Know God in wonder
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, Abba Moses tells us more about what contemplation actually is, explaining its different modes, and also teaching us where our thoughts come from and what we’re...
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Episode 6: Take your soul seriously
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, we continue our way through St John Cassian’s interview with the great Egyptian ascetic Abba Moses the Black, who shifts his focus from the goal of purity of…
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Episode 5: Aim for purity of heart
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, St John Cassian, a great master of the contemplative life, introduces us to the man he considered to be the greatest of all the desert fathers, Abba Moses the...
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Episode 4: To know God, know yourself
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers, presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode, St Basil the Great continues urging us to be attentive to ourselves, and explains how, because he is made in the divine image, by knowing himself, man can know...
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Episode 3: Be attentive to yourself
Welcome to Life Sentences, an exploration into the wisdom of the ancient Church Fathers presented by me, Thomas Small. In this episode we meet St Basil the Great, a 4th-century Father of the Church who, taking us into the mind, teaches us where our focus of attention should be and that we must...
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Episode 2: You are a mind
In this episode, St Leo the Great, Pope of Rome, takes us even deeper into the spirituality of asceticism, and we learn how behind the practice of fasting lies a sophisticated doctrine about the nature of the human mind. Get full access to Life Sentences at wisdomreadings.substack.com/subscribe
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Episode 1: Starting with the basics
Welcome to Life Sentences, a new Substack podcast presented by me, Thomas Small. In Life Sentences, I’m going to be reading through ancient spiritual texts by the greatest minds of Christian history, the Church Fathers. I'll add commentary as I go which will, I hope, convince you that ancient...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
An exclusive Substack podcast presented by Thomas Small. In each episode, he walks you through an ancient spiritual text, revealing the history behind the text and, even more importantly, translating the text into modern terms. You'll be amazed by how relevant ancient Christian wisdom remains to your life today.
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An exclusive Substack podcast presented by Thomas Small. In each episode, he walks you through an ancient spiritual text, revealing the history behind the text and, even more importantly, translating the text into modern terms. You'll be amazed by how relevant ancient Christian wisdom remains to...
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