JONATHAN PAGEAU AND FR. JOSIAH: "THE FUTURE IS RELIGIOUS"

In the last episode of The Symbolic World vlog Jonathan Pageau sat down with Father Josiah Trenham, archpriest at St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, California, and founder and director of Patristic Nectar Publications. With over thirty years of experience as a priest in America, Father Josiah has a wealth of knowledge about the state of Orthodoxy in the West and the challenges converts face. They discuss various aspects of Orthodox and contemporary life: beauty, money, politics, sexuality, the youth, psychedelics, artificial intelligence, and more. And of course the hot topic of the uptick in recent conversions was discussed. Father Josiah shares the experience in that regard of Father Andrew (link). 

Dec. 7, 2024 Jonathan Pageau: Orthodoxy in America - with Fr. Josiah Trenham. 

Time stamps

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

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