Enacting the Kingdom

In today's episode, we're going to go "there". We're going to step back in to the Graeco-Roman world and learn about some unquestioned medical truths of their day, held by Hippocrates, Galen and Aristotle, which pertain in particular to hair and why Paul is so concerned about veils. Once you know about it, you'll see it everywhere in ancient literature, and things will start to make more sense. But also, once we all learn it, can we all just agree to forget it?! Asking for a friend.

Thankfully we don't need to accept first century Graeco-Roman medicine in order to be an Orthodox Christian, but we really should use this opportunity to be challenged - are we living our lives in a way that looks like we've been transformed by participating already in God's future kingdom? The way we dress, the clothes we choose to buy, the clothes we choose to store, it's so much more than modesty. For us, as for Paul, this must point to the primordial, cosmological battle that we're involved with at all times.
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What is Enacting the Kingdom?

Welcome to ‘Enacting the Kingdom’: A Podcast about Liturgical Worship.

Fr. Yuri Hladio is an Orthodox Christian priest with a life-long desire to keep learning. Fr. Geoffrey holds a doctorate in Liturgical Theology and is the director of Orthodox Christian Studies at Trinity College, University of Toronto. Together they explore the narrative and liturgical theology of the Orthodox Christian Church.