Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I sat down with Fr. Josiah Trenham, archpriest at St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, California, and founder and director of Patristic Nectar Publications. With over 30 years of experience as a priest in America, Fr. Josiah has a wealth of knowledge about the state of Orthodoxy in the West and the challenges converts face. We discuss various aspects of Orthodox and contemporary life: beauty, money, politics, sexuality, the youth, psychedelics, artificial intelligence, and more. Enjoy.

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==============Timestamps==============
00:00 - Coming up
01:07 - Intro music
01:32 - Introduction
03:06 - The state of Orthodoxy in America
11:09 - What happened?
18:07 - Change and the conversion of young men
24:00 - Prioritizing beauty
35:31 - Balancing the budget
38:37 - Orthobros
42:41 - Bear yourself
50:16 - The ancient pagan world vs modern secular world
55:15 - Psychedelics
59:34 - The future is religious
01:01:15 - Artificial intelligence
01:07:38 - Intuition about what's coming

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