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FtFtL Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio

7 April 2016 By Andrew

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We now have a podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. The first episode introduces the topic of “Pornography and Iconography” — how does our Orthodox tradition of iconography illuminate the desire to consume pornography, and what help can the understanding and practice of the veneration of icons be to habitual users of pornography?

You can listen to the podcast on Ancient Faith Radio, and there is also a transcript of the podcast available on our own… [ read more ]

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Iconography and Pornography

7 April 2016 By Andrew

We’re going to start today with the question of pornography and more specifically, in this first podcast, we’re going to look at what iconography in the Orthodox tradition can teach us about how to deal with the question of pornography which confronts us in the present day.

We can start by looking at the two words: Iconography and Pornography. Obviously, both refer to the creation and use of images, and therefore raise the question of… [ read more ]

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A prayer for release from the passions

23 March 2016 By Andrew

by St Thalassios the Libyan

Christ, Master of all, free us from all these destructive passions and the thoughts born of them.

For Thy sake we came into being, so that we might delight in the paradise which Thou hast planted and in which Thou hast placed us.

We brought our present disgrace upon ourselves, preferring destruction to the delights of blessedness.

We have paid for this, for we have exchanged eternal life for death.

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