Let us Be Attentive…So Why Aren’t We?
What if attention is far more than a mental skill? What if it is one of the deepest expressions of love and one of the primary ways God tran...
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Sacramental Living
Understanding Christianity as a Way of Life - Sacramental Living is a series of podcasts by Michael Haldas about how to understand and live our Orthodox Christian faith in the context of rea...
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20 of 158 episodesDoes Artificial Intelligence Have a Silicon Soul?
Join Michael in an in-depth discussion about artificial intelligence, its history, what secular and Orthodox Christian thought leaders are s...
From Consumption to Communion: Choosing Spiritual Sickness or Spiritual Health
Join Michael as he discusses the consumer culture and how consuming has become a spiritual sickness with many comorbidities. Drawing on Scri...
When Anxiety Lies: Overcoming Existential Crisis
Join Michael in a discussion about the debilitating type of anxiety based on lies that can lead to hopelessness, and what we need to do to o...
Life, Death, and Beauty in Our Last Breath: A Testimony
Join Michael as he tells the story of a loved one’s final forty-eight hours and explores death as both sorrowful and strangely beautiful, re...
Facing Uncomfortable Truths
Join Michael as he shares a personal experience and discusses the challenge of facing uncomfortable truths about ourselves that are necessar...
Pragmatism That Kills
Join Michael in a discussion about how the culture we live in deeply effects our spirituality, and how the pragmatism of American culture, i...
Blessings in Brokenness
Join Michael for an in-depth discussion of brokenness in our lives, how it can be either transformative or debilitating, and how to make sen...
Lessons From the ‘Corporate World’
Join Michael as he compares the corporate world of business to what goes on in the Church, but also how a lack of corporate appreciation and...
Living the Abundant Life
Join Michael in a discussion about what the abundant life is that Christ wants to give us; what is the experience of this life now amidst al...
Ego and Our Propensity to Choose Delusion
Join Michael in a discussion about how we easily succumb to delusional thinking due to our egos, how this is a great detriment to ourselves...
The Prison of Esteem
Join Michael in a discussion of how the quest for high self-esteem, and even having low self-esteem, often take us in the opposite direction...
Defeating the True Enemy
Join Michael as he discusses what combat with the true enemy looks like, the weapons and strategies we should employ, and the trap we can fa...
Alone but not Alone
Join Michael as he explores the difference between loneliness and being alone, and how we can be more aware and supportive to anyone struggl...
Living as Pilgrims in a Restless World
Join Michael in a discussion of what is means to live as a pilgrim of Christ and how to understand and address our deep yearning and longing...
Confusing Our Goodness with God’s Goodness
Join Michael in a discussion of God’s goodness versus our own goodness, and why the prevalent cultural belief of many that all you have to b...
Serving the Angel of Contentment or the Demon of Desire
Join Michael in a discussion of our desires, how they get in the away of the elusive peace we seek, and what we need to do to find true cont...
Haunted by Religion
Join Michael in a discussion about how many people are haunted by a spiritual reality they consciously or unconsciously acknowledge, especia...
God in a Disfigured Face
Join Michael in a discussion about an encounter he had with man with severe facial injuries, and what it caused him to reflect on concerning...
The Difficult Journey from the Head to the Heart
Join Michael in a discussion of the difficulty of getting out of our own heads, the cultural and spiritual challenges that perpetuate this,...