The Areopagus

The Areopagites welcome the CEO of Ancient Faith Ministries to talk about the creation and consumption of Christian media – its strengths, weaknesses, weirdnesses, and what its relationship is to church life. Bonus Feature: Swedenborgian chickens.

0:00 - Cold Open

0:27 - Introduction

3:03 - Three Martyrs Studio

4:20 - Evangelical media & VBS

14:32 - Ancient Faith's approach to Christian media

28:33 - Evangelicalism & Swedenborgianism

48:38 - The Sanctification of the Internet

58:07 - The Possessors vs. the non-Possessors

1:06:42 - Using media to win brothers

1:20:48 - Being effective without being manipulative

1:27:05 - Internet Orthodoxy supplementing Parish life

1:33:27 - Creating good children's media

1:41:54 - Outro

The Areopagites compare the Pentecostal/Charismatic concept of “the anointing” with historic Christian anointings and show how trading out the latter for the former leads to disaster.

0:00 - Cold open

0:40 - Intro

9:52 - Updates

26:13 - Storm clouds brewing over the Charismatic world

36:18 - "The Anointing"

49:25 - Anointing in Orthodox Christianity

1:11:11 - Impartation

1:26:49 - Spectacular spiritual gifts

1:43:02 - Good leadership requires holiness

In 2009, Michael “The Internet Monk” Spencer predicted the collapse of American Evangelicalism within 10 years. Using this frame of reference, Dcn. Seraphim Rohlin joins the Areopagites to discuss a 2024 Christianity Today article titled “The Loosening of American Evangelicalism.” What is going on with this most visible of American religious groups?

Back from their pilgrimage to Scotland and Northumbria, the Areopagite pilgrims reflect on the holy people and places they encountered. They also answer an email from an ardent fan.

While riding a train on pilgrimage to the holy island of Iona in Scotland, the Areopagites are joined by Fr. Jacob Siemens and Dcn. Seraphim Richard Rohlin to talk about their hopes for their pilgrimage and what the point of it even is.

A muscular, aggressive Christianity has emerged into public life. The Areopagites tackle this question by comparing it to historic Christianity, especially to what is taught in the Scriptures.

The Areopagites (one of whom can’t believe he’s doing this) take a look at the demonology and soteriology of the runaway Netflix hit “KPop Demon Hunters.” Could its popularity have something to do with the way it portrays the human fall into sin as participation with the demonic?

The Areopagites discuss the wild world of Christian apologetics on the Internet, comparing and contrasting it with historical apologetics from the early Church.

The Areopagites tackle the recent revival, return, reaction, resurgence – whatever you want to call it – that is bringing more people into churches all over the world.

What’s the deal with Holy Saturday? Is it a time of doubt and awkward waiting? The Areopagites reference a Christianity Today article about Holy Saturday to talk about what’s going on and how disconnection from tradition and scripture lead to psychologizing Biblical texts.