Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri speak about what draws us to the concert experience, and how this can also be found within the church (sometimes controversially)!  Popular music today is asking profoundly religious questions - often not with satisfying answers - but when you look deeply, the ultimate answer, the Gospel message, can be pointed to.  Of course, this requires us to engage critically with the music, an act that we rehearse in the Liturgy.

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Just as our churches orient us to where our attention should be, so do our homes.  Where is the focal point, or the altar, of our spaces?  Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri explore the various ways that streaming services, and entertainment in general, manifest as a liturgy in our life - and offer strategies to take control, and use it for Good.

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Public intellectuals are certainly a part of the liturgies of our modern life, but it's really not a new phenomenon.  To varying degrees, they have always been part of life, including within church circles - well before the dawn of YouTube and TED talks.  What are the good ways to engage with public intellectuals, and what are the ways to avoid?

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Cathedrals, liturgical colours, pilgrimages, chanting, saints, relics - sports are clearly religious, and profoundly successful, at that.  To what degree can Orthodox Christians engage with these rituals?  Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri point to the good in sports, and also point beyond to the greater Good.

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As our work becomes increasingly divorced from the way we live our lives, we are often posed with the question of work/life balance.  But are work and life opposites that need to be balanced?  Fr Yuri and Fr Geoffrey propose a different way to look at how we measure a good life, rooted in the purpose of Life itself.

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We all have our food rituals.  Whether its having our weekday lunch solo in front of Netflix, or insisting on buttery popcorn for family movie night, these rituals take many forms.  Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri pose some questions we can use to gauge whether these food rituals, these liturgies, are helpful or detrimental to us, as well as offer advice on how to recapture these rituals to do them Right.

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Fr Yuri and Fr Geoffrey discuss the world of advertising and the ways that it forms us liturgically.  The thousands of ads we are exposed to every day work to create perceived voids within us that can only be filled by the products and services that are being offered.  As much as we rationalize our decisions after the fact, really we have been programmed by desire.  Even though we cannot change how humans function in this way, there is an alternative - and it can be found within the Church.

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To be clear, the smartphone is not good or bad in itself; it is a tool that we need to use appropriately.  So much of our interaction with these devices are ritualized, so this is a perfect continuation in our series on the Liturgies of Life.  How are we being formed by our use of smartphones?  In what ways can we call more attention to and be more intentional about that use?

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As we continue to consider the wider implications of our everyday rituals, in this episode Fr Geoffrey and Fr Yuri discuss the normalization of debt.  In fact, the whole economy is structured on debt.  So what are the spiritual implications of financial debt?  What is the liturgical dimension of debt, and how are we being formed by it?  Are there ways to prophetically challenge the system?

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Human beings are social beings.  We are meant to be in relationship with one another.  The counterfeit connections that we make in today's world don't meet those needs for true relationship, which means we need not be alone to feel lonely.

What are these needs that aren't being met?  Where can we go to meet them?

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