Pageau, Fr. Damick, and those other guys are great. I'm "Orthodox curious" but yeah like you I'm precluded from actually digging more into it because the closest Orthodox church of any type is hours out. There just aren't many of those in the Bible Belt lol
I grew up Southern Baptist and still practice, but the focus on an almost superficial level of "fEeLiNg" along with the sense that the only theologians that matter are essentially C.S. Lewis or Billy Graham (everyone earlier being basically Papist garbage or completely forgotten) really left me lacking. Heck, I'm doubtful if the average Southern Baptist congregant can even tell you who Martin Luther was. Honestly, the focus on feeling was one of the reasons why I left the faith and it took people like Peterson and Pageau to re-enchant Christianity for me.
But then again, maybe that's less a function of the Baptists and more just being a "sophisticated" Christian.
Pageau, Fr. Damick, and those other guys are great. I'm "Orthodox curious" but yeah like you I'm precluded from actually digging more into it because the closest Orthodox church of any type is hours out. There just aren't many of those in the Bible Belt lol
I grew up Southern Baptist and still practice, but the focus on an almost superficial level of "fEeLiNg" along with the sense that the only theologians that matter are essentially C.S. Lewis or Billy Graham (everyone earlier being basically Papist garbage or completely forgotten) really left me lacking. Heck, I'm doubtful if the average Southern Baptist congregant can even tell you who Martin Luther was. Honestly, the focus on feeling was one of the reasons why I left the faith and it took people like Peterson and Pageau to re-enchant Christianity for me.
But then again, maybe that's less a function of the Baptists and more just being a "sophisticated" Christian.
Billy Graham is a charlatan.