How We Exist Together: Re-Enchantment and Orthodoxy | with Frederica Mathewes-Green

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a well-known writer and speaker on the Eastern Orthodox faith in America. She is very involved with Ancient Faith Radio and has her own ongoing podcast, “Frederica Here and Now” that started in 2007. She’s written numerous books like “Welcome to the Orthodox Church, An Introduction to Eastern Christianity”, “The Jesus Prayer: The Ancient Desert Prayer that Tunes the Heart to God” and many more.

In this interview we talk about the idea of “re-enchantment” that you’ve heard me mention, differentiating it from “magic”. We discuss the various problems with modernity, like abstraction, loneliness, self-naming and how the popular psychological notion of “self-help” differs from the Orthodox path to salvation. Lastly we talk about the “supernatural”, or #SymbolismHappens.

Check out Frederica’s website: https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/frederica/
Her books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Frederica-Mathewes-Green/e/B001JS53KE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
Her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fredericamg

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Re-Enchantment
19:17 Modernity: Lost In Abstraction, Autonomy & Loneliness
25:31 Starting a Family When You’re Young
35:53 Self-Help vs Religion: What Orthodoxy Has to Offer
43:16 Miracles, #SymbolismHappens & the Supernatural
47:14 Numbing Ourselves to the Good
50:07 Outro

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