It’s been fifteen years since the Maddexes, a plucky Midwestern family who had recently joined the Orthodox Church, launched Ancient Faith Radio with two computers on their back porch. At first it was a streaming station, full of liturgical music they had uploaded from their friends’ CD collections.
Section: Incline Your Ear
For Those Just Tuning In: Christianity by Podcast
The most consequential medium for English-language discourse about Orthodox Christianity today is internet-based audio. Church-themed podcasts, YouTube channels, and even online call-in shows have mushroomed over the past few years. Many hours’ worth of free spoken content is now produced every week, enough to suit virtually every cultural temperament within the Church.
Suffering and Death in the Music of the Nativity
The nativity of Christ is the easiest Christian holiday for people to relate to since, after all, we were all born. The music dedicated to Christmas and created over the centuries has as many themes as the Gospel narratives. There is the good news from the angels, the gifts of the Magi, the joy of[…..]
Music: A Language Of Its Own
In what way is music a language, if it cannot be translated to other languages? After all, every attempt to paraphrase music or our impressions from it seems to make its beauty and the uniqueness of its effect on us collapse and fall flat. Such is the case with poetry as well. A work of[…..]
Reflecting Heaven: Interview with Hegumen Peter Mescherinov
Translated by Sergei Brun
The Music of Creation in Tolkien and Lewis
We will probably never know where Dante drew the line in his Divine Comedy between his own belief and fiction (in the modern sense of the word). It is quite possible that, for him, such a distinction would not have made any sense. In any case, we can be sure he was, at the same[…..]