I had decided to do the Meet the Parents series before I got asked to take over for Mike Aquilina on the Way of the Fathers Podcast. So then my plan was to do both, but it feels like I'm doubling up a lot on work Mike already did. Mike's first 56 episodes are on the individual Church fathers, and so as I've been working on the podcast, it doesn't seem to make sense for me to just redo the same episodes that Mike did.
Now, he didn't do every Church father, I do have several in mind that he didn't do, and I've already done my two-episode series on Novatian in The Way of the Fathers. Overall, my goal was to present podcasts where you could learn about the Church fathers I mention in The Journey, and who gave us the interpretations of Scripture we're talking about in that Bible Study.
So I'm going to keep going through the Church fathers - more or less chronologically - but where Mike has already done an episode on one of the Fathers, I'll post his, and then when there's a gap in his list, I'll do that one myself. I'll also keep posting the new Way of the Fathers Podcast as they become available, so you can listen to my current series on The Heresies, and of course I mention the relevant Church fathers in those episodes, too.
So far I've posted Meet the Parents episodes on:
1. Clement of Rome
2. Ignatius of Antioch
3. Polycarp of Smyrna
4. Papias of Hieropolis (the first one that Mike didn't do)
So, we'll just keep on going, but by integrating Mike's episodes, I'll be able to keep them coming more often. Let me know if you have any questions...
I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:
This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App
Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.
Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.
Enjoy!
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
