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Episode Transcript
If you've ever felt like the modern world is collapsing
around you, morally, spiritually, culturally, well, Father Sara from Rose
actually predicted all of this, and he left us a
roadmap on how we got here. For the next project
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over at the Logos Academy, I'm excited to announce now
we are going to be reading one of the more
important Orthodox texts of our time, father Sarah from Rose,
is the Orthodox Survival Course, and together we're going to
be looking at the forces that shape modernity, how people
are so spiritually lost, and why Orthodoxy is the only
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path forward. For those you've never heard of it, The
Orthodox Survival Course is actually a collection of lectures that
Father Sarah from Rose gave concerning the intellectual historical journey
of the West and essentially how they departed from the
front of the mindset the worldview of Eastern Orthodoxy. Here
is the Orthodox Survival Course. It's as I said, it's
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a collection of lectures from Father Sarah from Rose, and
it begins discussing what the Orthodox worldview is, and from
there he begins with the Middle Ages, specifically in the West,
and marches from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to
the Enlightenment to the scientific Revolution, through the French Revolution,
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all this different stuff and demonstrates how it contributes to
the modern period that we're in and why our traditional
Christian faith has essentially been under attack for centuries. If
you reside in a Western country, you're living in a
society that's filled with cultural chaos, that has no identity,
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or being flooded with immigrants, and there's no religious foundations
for anybody to latch onto. There's been a loss of meaning.
You've heard Pagio and Peterson and Verbaiki and all these
different intellectuals speak about the meaning crisis. Well, how did
we get here? Why is there no meaning? Why is
nihilism such a common denominator amongst so many young people
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and their inability to find their careers, establish themselves and
build families. Or the temptations of modernity, of individualism, of rationalism,
of democracy. Why are these things such central pillars and
almost religious proclamations in the Western world, Or the sex
of the spiritual exhaustion. So many people have been seekers
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over and over again, where they've adopted a sort of
perennial worldview where all religions lead to the same place.
It's all one shared perennial truth, but is it true?
And then the confusion over Orthodoxy's role today, What is
the role of Orthodox Christianity in the West. These are
the things that we're going to be discussing. And Father
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Sarah from Rowe gives the Orthodox blueprint on how to
stay sane, how to save your soul, and strengthening your
household in the age of apostasy. To get the most
out of this text, it's really not something that you
should read alone. It's helpful to have other people's perspective
and backgrounds, especially if you're not sophisticated in intellectual history, philosophy,
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or historical movements. That's why we're going to be doing
this as a community of men. We're gonna be meeting
at seven o'clock pm Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday nights,
all of which will be posted on the calendar over
at the Logos Academy at school dot com, and we
then are going to discuss this and hold each other accountable.
We're gonna be diving deep into each chapter. Sometimes we're
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going to be reading a chapter or two, and we're
going to then share our perspectives as a group and
where maybe you lack knowledge in certain areas other people
in the group are much more attuned to. So that's
the point of doing this as a collection of Orthodox
Christian men. When you join the Logos Academy, you're not
just getting access to the exclusive think tank meetings where
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we're going to be reading the Orthodox Survival Course. Of course,
you're going to get that, but you also get all
the study guides and reviews that I prepare, You get
all of my members only content, you get banned YouTube streams,
you get all my part two streams, and you get
a collection of other men like minded that you can
bounce ideas off and belong to a community of men
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striving for something larger. We do the first Monday of
every month Fitness Accountability meetings where we grade ourselves a
through f on your fitness, your diet, your spiritual life,
which includes church attendance, prayer, life scripture reading, and then
career goals or lifestyle goals whatever it may be for
your situation. So you get a lot more than just
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being part of the zoom meetings for the reading of
the Orthodox Survival Course, all of which is going to
be included in your membership. If you want to be
there for the first meeting, sign up today. As I said,
we're going to beginning the first two lectures, the first
one on the Orthodox worldview the second one on the
Middle Ages this Wednesday, December seventeenth at seven o'clock pm
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Eastern Standard time. And all of these sessions are going
to be recorded, so if you're not able to make
one of them, there will be a playlist in the
classroom section on school dot com in the Logos Academy
where every single meeting covering this text will be available.
So if you make a couple of them, but maybe
you miss one, you'll also be able to tune in
and see what we have to say as a group
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of men when we go over it. The times are dark,
but God is not silent, and Father Sarah from Rose
wrote this for us for our exact moment. So join
us over at the Logos Academy school dot com forward
slash Logos Academy and let's read it together.
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