Substitute Hosting Andrew Tallman is the “afternoon drive time talk show host” for 1360KPXQ a Phoenix Salem radio station that broadcasts local and national evangelical radio ministries like Hank Hanagraff, James Dobson, R.C. Sproul and Mark Martin.  We overlapped with him when he came to KPXQ so we got to know him before we left the station. He used to teach philosophy but always wanted to get into Christian talk radio and he landed a job at KPXQ.  Andrew is a rare personality. He deals with evangelical hot button topics... Read More »
	What We're Reading The Unseen Warfare, (Lorenzo Scupoli, Ed.) By Theophan the Recluse There are tons of books out there on the spiritual life. Some are great if you plan on being a monk or have been for 30 years (like the Philokalia, the common advice is: consult your spiritual Father or director before and during tackling it). Unfortunately these are the kinds of books most of we converts are drawn to frankly because... Read More » Ages of the Spiritual Life By Paul Evdokimov I have been reading Paul Evdokimov’s Ages of the Spiritual Life (formerly called The Struggle With God, which, in some respects, is a better title) over a number of weeks. It is a gem of a book – not what I would consider a “fast read”, although it is not a long work. Read More »
	Recent Blogs of Interest Fr. Stephen Freeman - Losing My Religion A travelogue and wonderful pictures of ancient Church and monastery sites in Turkey by Terry John Cowan. Read More » Photos and reflections on the recent reunification of ROCOR and the Russian Church by Fr. John Whiteford and Elizabeth Ledkovsky who attended the services in Moscow. Read More » YouTube Orthodox music video of the Valaam Choir. Read More » Evangelicals Turn Toward ... the Orthodox Church? The ministry is a calling, but it is also a career, and, in 1987, a Baptist minister named Wilbur Ellsworth was given the career opportunity of a lifetime. After nearly two decades of pastoring modest congregations in California and Ohio, Ellsworth, at the age of 43, was called to lead the First Baptist Church of Wheaton, Illinois--one of the most prominent evangelical churches in what was then the most prominent evangelical city in the world... Read More »
	Listener Questions Question 1 What does the Orthodox Church say we are to believe about Neanderthal and Cro-Magnons? It seems that they were not animals, that they were like humans but not quite at our level. I've watched the Science channel quite a bit so I know about some of the things that have been discovered about how they lived. I guess what I really want to know is, did they have souls like ours that will be in Heaven? Did they have a concept of God?... Read More » Question 2 One of the miraculous appearances of Mary, at Lourdes, specifically mentions that doctrine of Pius IX (I think it is IX) of the immaculate conception of Mary, which the EO objects to. It's uncanny, but Pope Pius IX didn't engineer anything. That miracles occurred at Lourdes is beyond question - they did and do. Also beyond question, is that Bernadette, completely ignorant, poor, etc. etc. and certainly not able to understand sophisticatedly heard this: "I am the Immaculate Conception" from Mary - and had to ask her priest what conception meant - so simple was she. Pope Pius IX didn't order Mary to say this. Does EO ignore/deny the entire reality of the events at Lourdes, located in the Western part of the world by God's arrangement, in order to deny that Bernadette heard something which Pius IX had come up with four years earlier? That she, a simple shepherdess, never could have known or heard about? I understand the EO venerates Mary, but doesn't like doctrinalizing something like this. Read More »
	Orthodox Study Bible Update First of all, we want to thank all of our listeners who have donated to the program. Due to your generosity we were able to mail over 200 Orthodox Study Bibles to non-Orthodox listeners in 18 countries last month. We mailed Bibles to Slovakia, Pakistan, Israel, Sweden, Finland, Nigeria, Ghana, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Australia, and India to name just a few. Each of these Bibles represents someone who has begun a study of the Orthodox Church’s spirituality and teachings. Unfortunately, the last shipment took almost all of the funds in our account and we have over 250 listeners who have requested Study Bibles that we cannot send. We have over 100 Bible requests from African nations alone, and three to four requests a day coming in from all over the world... Read More »
	Raise Money While You Shop! If You Buy Stuff from Amazon You Can Support OLiC! Yes, it’s true! Through a special program offered by Amazon, Our Life in Christ can receive up to a 4% donation of the purchase you make from Amazon. This is not only “Orthodox books and music” or our “recommended reading list”, but ANYTHING that Amazon sells. It does not add anything to your bill, and it is completely “Amazon”... we just get the donation for sending people to Amazon from our website. In order for us to receive the donation, the purchase MUST originate from the Amazon search or link from our website. This is how it works... Read More »
	Stay tuned for these upcoming programs! An interview with Papa Demetrios on "the nous"... Read More » An inteview with Abbot Jonah on "Internet Porn Addiction"... Read More »