Once upon a time, this podcast was fascinating, educational, inspiring.
Now, it’s ranty and lazy, not all the time of course but enough that I just can’t waste time listening to it.
In the most recent Q&A ep, a listener asked, unironically, what might heal the schism between orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. He did not receive a thoughtful, straightforward response, no concrete issues of dogma or liturgy, from either priest. Instead, he got an earful, maybe ten minutes, of pure rant. Fun for Fathers? Of course. Ego stroking? Absolutely. Helpful to the listener who asked the question hoping for an actual answer or to anyone else? Hardly.
I’m less interested in Orthodoxy as a faith now than I used to be, precisely because of such lazy hostility.
Maybe it’s time for these two gifted men to move onto new projects.
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