Sanctified Matter: Living After Theophany
What if Theophany isn’t just a feast you celebrate... what if it’s a new reality you’re supposed to live from? In this episode, Dr. Michael Christian & co-host John unpack how Orthodox Christianity re...
12 Jan 1h
From Willpower to Worship, Building Habits that Heal
January is when modern culture tries to “punish itself into purity.” In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Mike & John dismantle the New Year, New Me courtroom & replace it with somethin...
5 Jan 1h 23min
12 Days, Not 12 Pounds of Christmas How to Feast Without Falling Apart
Christ is born. Glorify Him.The Church does not give us the feast so that we can fall apart... & then punish ourselves in January.In this episode of The Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian ...
29 Des 20251h 7min
Christ Is Born: Nativity at the Kitchen Table
From straw hidden under a tablecloth in a tiny Slavic house… to kids banging metal triangles in Greek stairwells… to families tearing injera around a shared platter in Ethiopia…The Nativity isn’t just...
22 Des 20251h 9min
Beyond ‘Vegan’: Fake Meats, Food 2.0, & Technocratic Fasting w/ Nick Hillman (Regenerative Ag So
Lab-grown “meat.” Cricket protein bars. Impossible burgers at the grocery store.The world is loudly preaching a new gospel of “ethical,” “sustainable,” plant-based everything... while the same foundat...
15 Des 20251h 18min
Santa Vs. St. Nicholas & the Medicine of Almsgiving w/ Fr. Jonathan Ivanoff (The Transfigured Life)
What if St. Nicholas wasn’t a jolly mascot for consumer Christmas… but a bishop whose hidden generosity literally healed people and communities?In episode 39 of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michae...
7 Des 20251h 8min
Puritans, Pilgrims, & the Price of Forgetting the Eucharist
Is your Thanksgiving plate quietly acting like a spiritual report card?In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John trace how the Thanksgiving Myth, Puritan productivit...
1 Des 20251h 9min
Blue Zones, Longevity, & the Myth of the Perfect Diet
Is “Blue Zone” longevity the new health religion?In this episode of the Orthodox Health Podcast, Dr. Michael Christian & John audit Okinawa, Sardinia, Ikaria, Nicoya, & Loma Linda... & ask what actual...
24 Nov 20251h 22min
