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No Other Foundation — 304 episodes

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The Authority of the Priest

2

In Praise of Geegaws

3

The Road to Kiriath-jearim

4

A Church on its Deathbed

5

Of Wormholes and Memorials

6

How to Preach

7

The Donation of Constantine

8

“He Doesn’t Know, Does He?”

9

“A Personal and Private Search for God”

10

The Veneration of Relics

11

Papa John Scratch and Company

12

Christ in our Midst: Present and Future

13

“Command!”: a Reflection on the Contemporary Ordination Practice

14

The Accomplishments of the Reformation

15

The King of Israel

16

A Christian Response to War

17

The Dying of the Light

18

Surveying the Old Testament

19

Tithing Mint

20

All Kinds of Everything

21

I Don’t Believe in Christianity

22

The Focus of the Pharisee

23

Losing Your Name, Losing Your Soul

24

Rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem

25

Baptismal Liturgies

26

The Healing of a Broken Heart

27

“The Salvation of the Christian People”

28

The God of the Unexpected

29

Our So-Called Galactic Brothers

30

What’s So Important about the Nicene Creed?

31

Where Are Your Saints?

32

Old Testament Prophecies of Christ

33

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask the Church)

34

More Bishops, Please

35

Icons: Objects for Veneration or Mere Decoration?

36

Long Haired Men

37

Was Jesus a Zealot?

38

Becoming a Christian: Cerebral or Sacramental?

39

An Assurance of Salvation

40

Anaxios: Unworthy and Evil

41

Predestination: Trampling the Tulip

42

Predestination and Ephesians 1: What Is It that God Predestines?

43

Predestination and Romans 9: What Is It that God Chooses?

44

Do You See This Woman?

45

Marian Devotion, Orthodox and Roman Catholic

46

Praying for Nero

47

Receiving Converts into the Orthodox Church

48

Finding Comfort in the Ascension

49

“To Thine Own Self Be True”

50

A Bridge to…Where?

51

Prayers to the Saints in the Eighth Day

52

Sojourning in Bethany

53

A Unified Date for Easter?

54

Is Jesus Divine?

55

Story and History

56

Great Lent: “The King in His Beauty”

57

A “Call of Duty” Spirituality

58

Doing the Deeds That Will Allow Us to Inherit the Kingdom

59

Haggai, Being Small in a World of Big

60

Menstruation and Holy Communion

61

Crisis of Confidence: A Book Review

62

An Orthodox Priest converts to Islam

63

Was Phoebe a Deaconess?

64

Putting Aside All Idolatry For Christ Who Is Our Life

65

Pope Francis’ "Fiducia Supplicans" and Same-Sex Union

66

Leavening the Lump

67

Adorning the Epiphaneia of the King

68

“God will never give you more than you can handle”

69

An Offensive Invitation?

70

I Just Had to Pray

71

Saints in context-Abraham

72

Arguing with Culty Fundamentalists

73

Scepticism and the Holy Fire

74

Jesus Revolution

75

Great God Almighty’s Gonna Cut You Down

76

The Cult of Bareness

77

The Papal Claims

78

“Corrective Baptism”?

79

Ecclesiastical Gnosticism

80

St. Matthew’s Old Testament: Isaiah 40:3 and Isaiah 9:1-2

81

St. Matthew’s Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:15 and Isaiah 11:1

82

St. Matthew’s Old Testament: Micah 5:2 and Hosea 11:1

83

St. Matthew’s Old Testament: Isaiah 7:14

84

The Strange and Perverse Disinclination to Believe in a Miracle

85

The Genesis of Liberal Theology

86

Why I Am a Christian (Part 2)

87

Why I Am a Christian (Part 1)

88

Who Prays for Marilyn?

89

Cain and Abel and a Bayonet

90

Up It Comes Again—the Whack-a-Mole Heresy

91

Call No Man “Father”

92

The Self-emptying of the Mother of God

93

Judge Not

94

An Orthodox Magisterium?

95

Reflections on an October Event

96

“Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?”

97

“Can I Get an Amen?”

98

Sitting Lightly on Labels

99

Adoption to Sonship

100

The Lights of an Approaching Rescue

101

A Continued Pentecost

102

Who Was Linus?

103

Evangelizing the West

104

On baptizing infants

105

Symbol and reality

106

Vestments

107

Do Chickens Cry?

108

No Other Stream

109

Parish church-family or restaurant

110

Traditional family values

111

St. Gregory of Nazianzus

112

The Meaning of 1453

113

Another fundamental fact

114

The Fundamental Fact

115

Pascha-what's in a name?

116

Sex in Context

117

Pascha - What's In A Name?

118

Angels in our Life

119

The Angel of the Lord

120

Angels-A Long Development

121

An Alternative Eros

122

Baptism in the Jordan: Another Step Down

123

Snoopy's Christmas

124

A Prophetic Voice - Fr. Alexander Schmemann

125

A loving God

126

Dormition - What Actually Happened?

127

Father Never Knows Best

128

For Thine is the Kin-dom?

129

Holy Tradition

130

The Great Unmasking

131

Cooking the Cultural Books

132

In Praise of Old Wolves

133

Blessed Are The Peacemakers

134

Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted For Righteousness Sake

135

Blessed Are the Merciful

136

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst After Righteousness

137

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

138

Blessed Are the Meek

139

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit

140

The Beatitudes - An Introduction

141

Where does the rain come from

142

Despair of Elijah

143

Understanding Pauline Universalism

144

Snake-handling

145

A loving God

146

Dormition-what actually happened

147

Unveiling the Scriptures - 6

148

Unveiling the Scriptures - 5

149

Unveiling the Scriptures - 6

150

Unveiling the Scriptures - 5

151

Unveiling the Scriptures - 4

152

Unveiling the Scriptures - 3

153

Unveiling the Scriptures - 2

154

Unveiling the Scriptures - 1

155

Will you remember me

156

You might be a fundamentalist

157

Boundaries of the peoples

158

Doesn't that Bible Say?

159

How the Grinch stole Pascha

160

Living in Galilee

161

Will We See our Pets in Heaven?

162

What Can the Righteous Do?

163

Lord's Prayer-final doxology

164

Lord's Prayer-forgive us our trespasses

165

Lord's Prayer-give us our daily bread

166

Lord's Prayer-give us our daily bread

167

Lord's Prayer-Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done

168

Lord's Prayer-Hallowed be Thy Name

169

Lord's Prayer-Our Father who art in heaven

170

Lord's Prayer - Introduction

171

Authority of the Fathers

172

Are you comfortable

173

Real Roots of Universalism

174

Spirit-suffused matter

175

Sacred Sex

176

Comfort in Affliction

177

Things that remain

178

Can a Christian be Demon-possessed?

179

Loving the sinner, hating the sin

180

Wrath of God and Christian apologetics

181

Personalism and Building Community

182

Bread, Peanut Butter and Forgiveness

183

Mathematics of Misery

184

Do We Really Need Deacons?

185

A God Without Wrath

186

Paschal Lunacy

187

St. Andrew's Canon

188

The Church as Apostolic

189

The Church as Holy

190

One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church

191

Jewish Evangelism 4

192

Jewish Evangelism 3

193

Jewish Evangelism 2

194

Jewish Evangelism 1

195

Knowing the Master's Manger

196

Love, peace, joy

197

Love, peace, joy

198

The Historical Case for Infant Baptism

199

Saints as Real People

200

Love, Peace, Joy (2)

201

Love, peace, Joy (1)

202

Light of Your Countenance

203

Blessed Rather

204

Baptismal Boundaries (3)

205

Baptismal Boundaries (2)

206

Baptismal Boundaries (1)

207

Do Fish Know They're Wet?

208

Cutting Up Cadavers

209

Ain't No Miracle

210

St. Mary Magdalene

211

Strangers in a Strange Land

212

We're All Dying, Aren't We?

213

Church and Political Causes

214

Biblical Exegesis and Confessionalism

215

The Seal of the Prophets

216

TWU and the Rising Tide

217

Sola Scriptura

218

Learning from the Council of Nicea

219

Eternal Security

220

Christian Zionism

221

Dealing with Anger

222

Reading the Song of Solomon Today

223

Shining Glory of the Little Parish

224

Born Again

225

Reflections on the Septuagint

226

Songs of Light and Revelation

227

Women's Gifts

228

Time For A Song

229

Some Doubted

230

What It Was That Saved Thomas

231

Holy Week Anti-Semitism?

232

The Prayer of St. Ephraim

233

Western Hat

234

Commentary on the Divine Liturgy: The Anaphora

235

Who Goes to Hell?

236

A Song in the Furnace

237

A Presence Not Theirs

238

Divine Liturgy Commentary - the Peace and the Creed

239

Praying for the Dead

240

Scriptural Teaching On Predestination

241

The Father is Greater Than I

242

Old Testament Feasts

243

Herod and the True Meaning of Christmas

244

King Herod and the True Meaning of Christmas

245

A Brief Word About Eternal Punishment

246

Waters of Marah

247

Allegory and the Old Testament

248

Why We Need a God of Wrath

249

Not Like Religion – Sacred Space

250

Not Like Religion – Clean vs. Unclean

251

The Feast of Byzantium

252

Not Like Religion – the Christian Clergy

253

Three Liturgical Questions

254

Commentary on the Divine Liturgy: the Gospel

255

Commentary on the Divine Liturgy: the Epistle

256

The Trisagion Hymn

257

Appreciating Anathemas

258

The Antiphons

259

The Great Litany

260

Holy Fire

261

Of Gay Sex and Leaven

262

Unquenchable Fire

263

It Is Time For The Lord To Act

264

Converting the Heathen

265

Understanding Pascha

266

Another Jesus

267

Palm Sunday

268

Annunciation

269

The Priest and the Parish Council

270

Suicide

271

Liturgy and the Language of the Street

272

The Feast of the Meeting

273

Preaching

274

On The Virtue Of Goodness

275

Queen James Bible

276

Papal Calendar

277

Born of a Virgin?

278

Just Imagine, John Lennon

279

Charlie Brown And The Lonely Walk Of Faith

280

Hipster Christmas

281

Holy Hatred

282

Feast of the Entrance

283

Blood That Cries

284

In Praise of CS Lewis

285

Just the Facts, Ma'am

286

Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

287

An Insignificant Sound

288

Concerning Burning

289

Chieti, Reunion, and the Rush to Embrace

290

The Doors The Doors

291

I Don't Know Much

292

Ecumenical Reality

293

Can We Know For Sure Who Is Saved?

294

A Tame Lion

295

The Genesis Creation Stories

296

Worshipping With Muslims

297

A Lethal Legacy

298

An Exclusive Creed

299

On Wearing Cassocks and Other Good Habits

300

The Rite of Proskomedia: Who Is Included?

301

Altar Boys

302

What Does An Ecumenical Council Look Like?

303

The Fathers of Nicea

304

Mind the Gap