One of my favorite account to follow on X is Fr. Michael Lillie. His posts are always edifying and on point. On a platform which thrives on negative attention, he has managed to build up a sizable following without engaging in negativity. In all the time I have been following him on X I have never once seen him fall into a passionate disagreement with another user. He sets a wonderful example for other Orthodox Christians who choose to use this social media platform.

The Bitcoin halving is less than a month away and soon crypto is going to enjoy a fresh new buzz in the news media. This cycle is poised to be stellar because of a number of factors, which we will discuss. Traditional finance has finally come around to embracing crypto with the launching of Bitcoin ETF's. Macro economic factors such as the upcoming presidential election and the loosening of economic policy by the Federal Reserve mean that financial markets are going to become more open risk-on assets. Combine that with the reduction in the supply of new Bitcoins due to the halving and we see that crypto is poised for another leg up. I have been paying close attention to the crypto markets and I will be giving my thoughts on the subject.

I recently passed 4,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. When I passed 1,000 subscribers I said that I would celebrate when I passed 2,500 but that number came and went so fast that I didn't have time to record a stream in celebration. In today's stream I will open with a monologue explaining where this channel came from, where I have been, and where I see it going in the future. Also, we had a little gift recently from the Reason and Theology YouTube channel in which my latest interview with Brother Nathanael was critiqued. It was actually a fair critique, but I would like to share a few highlights from that stream and offer my own comments regarding the interview with Brother Nathanael. Finally, I will give a brief update on the Orthodox rap group which we have formed and update everyone on our progress. After these segments I will open the stream up for call-ins.

Back by popular demand! Brother Nathanael is a monk in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). We had him on several weeks ago to discuss why his channel had disappeared from YouTube (he was banned without explanation). We also discussed Brother's conversion to Christianity and the path his life took from the time he first read the Gospel up until today. In our previous interview we had planned to discuss the crisis in the Orthodox Church, and although the topic was brought up we didn't go into too much detail. In today's interview we will discuss this topic more thoroughly. According to Brother Nathanael there is a crisis in the Church. This has to do with everything from how people are received into the church (chrismation vs. baptism), to catechism, to the education of priests, to how priests preach the faith in their sermons. This interview is going to be a call to all of the young men out there who are the future leaders of the church. It is a call to repentance. It is a call to return to the Faith as it was taught by the Fathers of the Church.

Fr. Moses is a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He serves at the Holy Mother of God Orthodox Church in Georgetown Texas. He also happens to be a powerlifter and puts up some big numbers. One of his YouTube channels,  @mcphersonbarbell8771  is dedicated to demonstrations of his workouts. Since I am also a powerlifter I thought it would be good to bring him on as a guest to discuss training and physical fitness. Fr. Moses believes that it is the duty of Christian men to be physically fit.

Brother Nathanael is an Orthodox Christian monk in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). This will be a follow-up interview with "Brother" - to see the first interview please watch my video titled "Brother Nathanael...Street Evangelist!" (https://youtu.be/chW9t7fPPIY?si=oUjrpKqK6GDXdIKW)

Who is Brother Nathanael? Where does he come from? Why does he wear black clothes with a Kamilavka - that tall circular hat on his head? In the first interview we discussed Brother Nathanael's Jewish upbringing, and the interview brought us all the way up to the moment when he read the New Testament for the first time. In this interview we will complete the story, finding out what happened after he read the New Testament. We will find out what happened in the intervening years between then and now, when he finds himself as tonsured monk in ROCOR.

We will also be discussing what happened to Brother's YouTube channel "Bible with Brother," which mysteriously disappeared several months ago. We will find out what he has been doing since the loss of his YouTube channel and where his videos are available to be seen now.

Finally we will discuss what Brother sees as the crisis that is happening in the Orthodox Church, and what the solution is to this crisis.

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Today for part three of our series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (twitter) we will be interviewing Thaddeus Patrick. This account caught my attention a few weeks ago when the algorithm on X brought Thaddeus into focus and he was getting a lot of interaction on the platform. I had considered interviewing him previously but this added attention that he was getting caused me to finally reach out to him. I think it is especially appropriate for my channel which focuses on issues related to mental health as Thaddeus has a degree in psychology and an online therapy practice. Some of the things we will focus on in our conversation will be the following: how to be Orthodox on social media, application of the spiritual life, and healing from gender dysphoria. Tune in and bring your questions as we dive in to the conversation!

We are continuing our series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (twitter). In this our second of the series we will be interviewing Subdeacon John. Subdeacon John is in the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America and posts to X multiple times a day. He has revealed several things about himself, including that he has a call to the priesthood, which is going to be the main focus of our conversation. Beyond that we will see where the conversation will take us, and maybe find out how the search for a wife is going. Please tune in!

Today's stream is going to be the first of what I hope will become a series of interviews with prominent Orthodox accounts on X (formerly twitter). Our interview will be with Kaleb of Atlanta, one of the most well known and loved personalities on X. His posts are variously educational, insightful, and often humorous. In our interview we will have an opportunity to hear Kaleb's testimony regarding his conversion to Orthodoxy, and we might also dig into some of the topics which he often posts about.

From the outset of my channel I wanted to have a focus on mental health, as I am a person who suffers from a serious mental illness and I can sympathize with others who likewise suffer. In today's stream with Fr. Turbo Qualls we are going to be discussing what is termed by the field of mental health 'depression.' Depression often has a spiritual component to it and can variously be referred to as 'despondency,' 'despair,' or the more precise Greek term 'accidie.' Moreover we understand despondency to be a passion, which means that it is a sin which we can struggle against, thereby giving us agency in the battle with this illness. If you were to go to a psychiatrist they would tell you that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and that the solution is to take a drug to fix it. If you were to go to a spiritual physician (a priest) he would probably tell you a different story and give different, spiritual medicines. This doesn't mean that pharmaceutical medicines don't have their place, it just means that we aren't completely helpless when we are faced with this struggle. In todays interview we will be discussing the issues surrounding these different types of situations. When is medication appropriate and when is in inappropriate? How can life in the Church help a person to overcome depression? What about despondency that is the result of sin? There is much to discuss.