This ReOrientNation episode ©️ 2024 by Fr Symeon Kees (Paradosis Pavilion/ReOrientNation) and James John Marks (Generative Sounds). All music has been produced by and the episode edited by Generative Sounds. All music in this episode ©️2022-2024 by Generative Sounds. This episode first appeared on the Christian Saints Podcast, co-hosted by Fr. Symeon and Jim.

Five Constant Virtues developed within Confucianism: Benevolence, Righteousness, Wisdom/Knowledge, Propriety, and Fidelity. In this episode, Father Symeon explains how both catechumens undergoing training in the Christian life and Orthodox believers benefit from practicing these five virtues, understood from an Eastern Orthodox perspective.

ReOrientNation Copyright ©️2024 by Fr Symeon Kees

This episode has been edited by James John Marks of Generative Sounds and the Christian Saints Podcast. All music in this episode has been produced by Generative Sounds. Music Copyright ©️ 2021-2024 Generative Sounds

Listen to a conversation recorded in Chicago between Fr. Symeon Kees (Paradosis Pavilion), an Eastern Orthodox priest, and James John Marks (Christian Saints Podcast / Generative Sounds) on cultivating the spiritual life.

It has been said that "doctors make the worst patients." Similarly, educators can make the worst students. What happens when scholars and teachers who are members of the Orthodox Church presume to teach theology without being good students of theology? How can educators embody the solution instead of perpetuating the problem? This episode is a sequel to "The Way of Orthodox Theological Education" (S2 E3).

Li Bai, the great Chinese poet, reflected on mortal existence and the inevitability of death. Within the Orthodox Church, the most ancient Church in the world, we balance the sadness of the reality of death with the joyful hope in the power of Life.

What is authentic Eastern Orthodox Christian theological education? It's not just academic religious education or doctrinal philosophical instruction. It's not primarily concerned with the rational mind or external behavior.  Orthodox theological education is primarily concerned with the heart, the spiritual intellect, and the purification of the heart through prayer and repentance. It's practical spiritual training for living the ancient Way of Christ, unchanged for thousands of years, in our 21st century world. It's learning by experience a Path that leads to profound change, healing, illumination, and transfiguration by divine power. This is the Way of Orthodox Theological Education for both children and adults.