Ancient Faith Ministries

Jul 25, 2014 • 17 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Chaplain Patrick Tutella, the Executive Director of Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM), about OCPM's 2011 Convocation in Toronto, Canada.

Jul 25, 2014 • 15 min

Miho Ealy, a Japanese Orthodox Christian, talks to us from Japan about life after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Jul 25, 2014 • 15 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Christiana Thanos, the producer of Lucky Girls, a documentary film about the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Girls' Orphanage in Calcutta, India, and the coordinator of a campaign to raise $4,000 during the 40 days of Lent for this same orphanage.

Jul 25, 2014 • 11 min

Angela Hays, the woman behind the new second edition of Taste and See: An American Orthodox Cookbook, needs your recipes. Bobby Maddex talks to her about this and more on a new Ancient Faith Presents.

Jul 25, 2014 • 19 min

On a new Ancient Faith Presents, Bobby Maddex interviews Vigen Guroian, author of The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key, published by Eerdmans Publishing.

Jul 25, 2014 • 18 min

The Hogar Rafael Ayau Orthodox Orphanage in Guatemala City, Guatemala, needs your assistance. Here Bobby Maddex talks with Mother Abbess Ines about the increasingly desperate situation in which the orphanage finds itself. Click here to learn more about the Hogar, and click here to find out how you can help.

Jul 25, 2014 • 24 min

Bobby Maddex interviews renowned priest, blogger, and now author Fr. Stephen Freeman about his new book Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe, published by Conciliar Press.

Jul 25, 2014 • 15 min

In this episode of Ancient Faith Presents, we speak with Harriet Stratis, the Treasurer of Friends of the Hogar, about a recently released CD featuring hymns sung by the children of the Hogar Rafael Ayau orphanage.

Jul 25, 2014 • 17 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Roberto Ubertino, the executive director of St. John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto, Ontario, and Dn. Pawel Mucha, the prefect of the mission's Lived Theology School.

Jul 25, 2014 • 16 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Thomas Ruthford, author of Heaven Help the Single Christian: Your (Practical) Guide to Navigating Church as You Search for a Godly Mate, published by Regina Orthodox Press.

Jul 25, 2014 • 14 min

Dr. Brad Nassif is our guest to talk about an opportunity to hear Met. Kallistos Ware at North Park University in Chicago February 22-23.

Jul 25, 2014 • 32 min

A talk by Linda Couri, a former Planned Parenthood employee who has both professional and personal experience with abortion issues, will be presenting an inside perspective on the pro-choice mindset. What are the values, goals, and motivations behind those who are pro-choice and what can we do to best address this complex and often hostile audience? Linda, who now serves as Associate Director of Lay Ministry Formation for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, will share her story and her own uncomfortable yet solid reconversion to the Christian faith. This talk was given at the 3rd annual Sanctity of Life Sunday presentation of the Orthodox Christian Clergy Association of Greater Chicago on January 30, 2011.

Jul 25, 2014 • 13 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Fr. Lawrence Farley, pastor of Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in British Columbia, the host of the AFR podcast Coffee Cup Commentaries, and the author of The Gospel of Luke: Good News for the Poor, published by Conciliar Press.

Jul 25, 2014 • 12 min

St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary is announcing the visit and surrounding activities of Met. Hilarion Alfeyev Feb 5 - 7. He will give a lecture on Saturday, Feb 5 at the Seminary as this year's speaker at the Fr. Alexander Schmemann Lecture Series. His choral masterpiece St. Matthew's Passion will be performed on Monday Feb 7 at 7:30 PM at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York. John Maddex talks with Fr. Chad Hatfield and concert producer Nicholas Reeves about the events. AFR will be there to record the lecture!

Jul 25, 2014 • 21 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Veronica Hughes, the author of The Pearl of Great Price: The Journey of a New Age Seeker to the Light of Christ and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Jul 24, 2014 • 13 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Aleksei V. Shipovalnikov, the director of The Spirit of Orthodoxy Choir.

Jul 24, 2014 • 12 min

Bobby Maddex interviews Frederica Mathewes-Green about her upcoming trip to Russia with Orthodox Tours. Learn how you can join her and her husband Fr. Gregory as they visit some of Russia's holiest and most awe-inspiring sites.

Jul 24, 2014 • 13 min

John Maddex interviews Fr. Matthew Williams about the cholera outbreak in Haiti and the work of the Orthodox Mission there.

Jul 24, 2014 • 1h 27m

Subdeacon Alex Younes, a professor at the Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy and the director of Antiochian Orthodox Camps in Canada, speaks on Youth Sunday at St. Demetrios Orthodox Church in Winnipeg, Canada.

Jul 24, 2014 • 26 min

John Maddex talks with Fr. Wilbur Ellsworth about his brand new podcast Let My Prayer Arise which just began on AFR.