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More Christ Episode Ninety-Eight: Paul Kingsnorth & Tom Holland: Myths, Saints, & History, the Bible & Life After Progress

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What Happens in Mount Athos and Other Places Like That?

When I think of your environmental writings they get actually what they gave me was a sense of humanity's sin. When I found the Orthodox monastic tradition especially and the mystical tradition around hisicasm and the Jesus prayer, I thought this is something I've been looking for for longer than I knew I was looking for it. But in another way it's fundamentally true. What happened to me was I sort of I got sort of hunted by Christ and then I thought okay I'm going to have to be a Christian after a while. This is this is this is where I have to be"

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