When East Meets West with Kenaz Filan and Ahnaf Ibn-Qais

In 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated: a few months later the Romanovs were dead and Russia's Christians faced a campaign of persecution that would last for over seven decades and claim millions of lives. Today the Church is more powerful within the former Iron Curtain than it has been in centuries. Why did the Communists launch a war against God -- and why did they lose?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

After dethroning their King, the French revolutionaries set their sights on God. Hundreds of clergy and thousands of innocent believers perished during a "dechristianization" program intended to create a secular France. That program remains in progress today. What can we learn from how it triumphed in France -- and how France defeated it?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

My Friday 10/16 show for the unexpectedly deplatformed Free Atlantic Radio. This one covers the Chabad movement and its many friends in very high places.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

It's a crazy story: a man was born of a Virgin and rose from the dead. Yet that crazy story has been told and retold for over 2,000 years. And is the absurdity of Christ greater than the absurdity of our world and our human condition?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Across times and cultures we find the idea of an afterlife where the just are rewarded after hard trials. Today we mock those ideas as "pie in the sky." But do those stories passed down through centuries point to a shared delusion -- or to a reality more glorious than we can imagine?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Hellfire. Damnation. Eternal separation from God. These are scary topics which are today generally treated as fairy tales good only for frightening children and credulous rubes. But what if there is a great and terrible Truth behind those unsettling legends?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

According to most secular Americans religious morality is anti-sex, anti-pleasure and anti-fun. C.S. Lewis's views were considerably more nuanced. Our modern culture has built its towers on sand and now they are crumbling. Can we rebuild something better on the bedrock Lewis has laid bare for us?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

There are many Christian denominations; they have serious differences on important points of doctrine and are in some cases openly hostile to each other. But what common ground do they share? In his 1952 book *Mere Christianity* C.S. Lewis sought to discover a "mere Christianity" which was the true heart of the Faith. Can his wisdom inspire us to put aside our differences and work together to protect the Good and conquer Evil?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

Every day the edifice of the American Empire crumbles a little more. Soon the Tower will fall. Can a document written by Pope John XXIII in 1963 help us build something better out of the wreckage?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe

In a world where “rebel” and “heretic” are terms of endearment, what use can there be in stale old dogmas and outworn creeds? G.K. Chesterson’s *Orthodoxy* offered a defense of Christianity’s continuing relevance amidst the science, progress and prosperity of Victorian England. Can the timeless truths he offered then help us find a way to clean up the 21st century’s post-Christian mess?--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kenaz-filan/message Get full access to Notes from the End of Time with Kenaz Filan at www.notesfromtheendofti.me/subscribe