The Areopagus

About The Areopagus

Historic Christianity Encounters Other Religious Traditions

Publisher

Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, Michael Landsman, and Ancient Faith Ministries

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Mar 2017

Latest episode

13 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 95 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Jun 2026

   Does Media Break the Church?

   The Areopagites welcome the CEO of Ancient Faith Ministries to talk about the creation and consumption of Christian media – its strengths, weaknesses, weirdnesses, and what its relationship is to church life. Bonus Feature: Swedenborgian chickens. 0:00 - Cold Open 0:27 - Introduction 3:03 - Three Martyrs Studio 4:20 - Evangelical media & VBS 14:32 - Ancient Faith's approach to Christian media 28:33 - Evangelicalism & Swedenborgianism 48:38 - The Sanctification of the Internet 58:07 - The Possessors vs. the non-Possessors 1:06:42 - Using media to win brothers 1:20:48 - Being effective without being manipulative 1:27:05 - Internet Orthodoxy supplementing Parish life 1:33:27 - Creating good children's media 1:41:54 - Outro

2. 

   27 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Anointing: Is This Even Christian?

   The Areopagites compare the Pentecostal/Charismatic concept of “the anointing” with historic Christian anointings and show how trading out the latter for the former leads to disaster. 0:00 - Cold open 0:40 - Intro 9:52 - Updates 26:13 - Storm clouds brewing over the Charismatic world 36:18 - "The Anointing" 49:25 - Anointing in Orthodox Christianity 1:11:11 - Impartation 1:26:49 - Spectacular spiritual gifts 1:43:02 - Good leadership requires holiness

3. 

   22 Jan 2026

   Evangelical Disintegration

   In 2009, Michael “The Internet Monk” Spencer predicted the collapse of American Evangelicalism within 10 years. Using this frame of reference, Dcn. Seraphim Rohlin joins the Areopagites to discuss a 2024 Christianity Today article titled “The Loosening of American Evangelicalism.” What is going on with this most visible of American religious groups?

Inside a recent episode

The Anointing: Is This Even Christian?

Published 27 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But of course, it's generally used for stuff that seems impressive or supernatural. No one says, oh, I have an anointing. for bookkeeping like no one you know maybe there is maybe there is maybe there is but like but it's not spectacular so right you know oh i have an anointing for taking out the trash yeah but but if it is what they say it is there should be that yeah right because these things need to be done yeah there's like there there's a anointing becomes synonymous with like spiritual gifts a la saint paul and first corinthians But we also forget that the spiritual gifts and the scriptures also involve things like hospitality. […]

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