What to Do When The Lights Go Out


Is artificial intelligence the fourth death of The Enlightenment & should Orthodox Christians even care particularly much?

Part 1 of a 2 part conversation.


Reference materials for this episode:
- The future of AI
- https://www.wired.com/story/ai-risk-party-san-francisco/
- AI is making us less smart
- https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/


Scripture citations for this episode:
- Genesis 3
- Tree of Knowledge
- Proverbs 1:1-7
- Instruction produces wisdom

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Following on our last episode in which we ended with the celebration of the righteous triumph of the gospel, we felt it was important to point out the boundary which must be kept on how we understand this triumph.

With the rise of nationalism in the USA, much of it Christian nationalism, as well as reflecting on such relatively recent tragedies as The Balkan war of the 1990's, it is crucial we understand winning as genuine participation in what God is doing rather than us going out into the world, weapons (rhetorical or military) in hand, to do the winning for Him.


(we didn't get to all this material, but it is relevant)

Reference materials for this episode:
- love of place is tied to attachment to possessions
- Shepherd of Hermas: parable 1
- https://www.strengholt.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Book-5-hermas-for-website.pdf
- our desires must be for virtue & we must not fear death
- 2nd Epistle of St Clement: chapter 5
- https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1011.htm


Scripture citations for this episode:
- dwellers in God’s tent (to the Gentiles)
- Ephesians 2: 11-21
- no lasting city (to the Jews)
- Hebrews 13:5-17

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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Iconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these images

Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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We start season seven off with by urging you to attend a [Orthodox] church you can't understand. Co-host Jim has realized he wasted 15 years of spiritual progress waiting for a local parish to be served in English. He traveled The Balkans enjoying all kinds of church services he couldn't understand a word of during early May & this dovetails with Fr Symeon's recent efforts to fulfill the wishes of Metropolitan Saba to teach Americans in the Antiochian tradition how to fully embrace & actualize this tradition without "becoming Middle Eastern".

Reference materials for this episode:
- The burning of the relics of St Sava
- https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2023/04/27/100127-the-burning-of-saint-savas-relics
- Episode we did on “change” on a different channel
- https://youtu.be/-Z_6hXs_wMc?si=sTsUeGqcGKMLPGY1
- Nikolai of Zica episode
- https://www.buzzsprout.com/1443073/episodes/14740645

Scripture citations for this episode:
- Swords into ploughshares
- Isaiah 2:1-4
- Let your enemies be scattered
- Psalm 68

The Christian Saints Podcast is a joint production of Generative sounds & Paradosis Pavilion with oversight from Fr Symeon Kees

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Iconographic images used by kind permission of Nicholas Papas, who controls distribution rights of these images

Prints of all of Nick’s work can be found at Saint Demetrius Press - http://www.saintdemetriuspress.com

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