Orthodox Engagement

Tikhon of Moscow: American, Russian & Lithuanian Saint - Scott Kenworthy

Dr. Scott Kenworthy joins Fr. Andrew to discuss the beloved saint Tikhon (Bellavin) of Moscow, touching on his time in Russia, the United States, and in Lithuania. Dr. Kenworthy is author of the new book 'The People's Patriarch: Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in North America and Revolutionary Russia' from Oxford University Press. The book can be ordered at this link: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-peoples-patriarch-9780197644751 Use promotion code AUFLY30 to save 30%.

Do You Want to Be a Priest? with Metr. Saba

His Eminence, Metropolitan Saba of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America joins Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick to talk about the Orthodox priesthood and the kind of men he's looking for to serve in his parishes. Join us for the first-ever vocations retreat hosted by the Antiochian Archdiocese in partnership with Ancient Faith Ministries at the Antiochian Village Conference Center in Bolivar, PA from August 20-23, 2026. This retreat is for Orthodox men who are considering the vocation of priesthood within the Antiochian Archdiocese. If you are trying to discern this vocation, join His Eminence Metropolitan Saba and other Archdiocesan leaders for a long weekend of panel discussions, speaker sessions, church services, and socializing. For more information and registration, visit https://www.ancientfaith.com/events/priestvocations/

Rivers of Grace - Holy Cross Monastery (Wayne, WV)

In this never before released recording from 2017, Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick interviews Abbot Seraphim (Schema-Archimandrite Panteleimon) and Hierodeacon Makary of Holy Cross Monastery (ROCOR) in Wayne, West Virginia, asking the question: How does the monastery engage the world?

Pageau: The Monsters and the Cynics

In his 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," J. R. R. Tolkien refuted the prevailing Beowulf scholarship of his day, which disdained the poem for its focus on monsters. He had this to say about the Old English epic: “I would suggest, then, that the monsters are not an inexplicable blunder of taste; they are essential, fundamentally allied to the underlying ideas of the poem, which give it its lofty tone and high seriousness.” Fr. Andrew sits down with ‪Jonathan Pageau‬ in his Montreal home to discuss whether and how the monsters make sense of our world today, what they have to do with the Christian story, as well as the place of the hero in facing the monsters.

6 Million American Orthodox? The Real Story - Matthew Namee

There are memes and headlines going around tracking a change from 700,000 American Orthodox Christians in 2020 to 6 million in 2024. With the convert surge going on, this sounds... plausible? Matthew Namee joins Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick to talk about not only whether those numbers really make sense but also the history of how Orthodox Christians in America have been counted. He also unpacks for us his discoveries about the demographics of Orthodox in America, culled from studies of the general American population.