Here I am in sunny Columbus, Ohio – 75 degrees, flowers coming out, right in the middle of campus of my old alma mater, Capital University, as pastor in residence. I just finished showing one of the religion professors the ins and outs of podcasting and he is just blown away by the possibilities. I had just seen on TV yesterday that Duke University and Apple have begun a trial program for using Ipods as standard school gear – very interesting stuff – and was thinking along the same lines for recording lectures, study aids, etc… He is being taught the wonderful world of all things ipod by his 8th grade son. He was amazed when I showed him one of my favorite meditation sites – orthotracts.org and click on the Trisagion Prayers to view icons and 2,000 year old prayers set to a Barber string piece. He was stunned – if the Orthodox have moved onto the net – and they change slower than any other Christian tribe – we mainliners are completely missing the boat with postmoderns. My point exactly.
Hope you enjoy my reflections of finding myself being on retreat in the heart of the city and a college campus, along with the links that I mention in the podcast. The one that is missing but is part of my thoughts on my glory days here in the 80s (good lord, I’m turning into Bruce Springsteen) – the famed Jan Polet Hit Test.
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Thanks for your mention of the Trisagion prayers. The background music is the Cherubic Hymn from the Divine Liturgy as set to string quartet (which I am able to do from my computer). Many composers have used this old orthodox hymn and certainly many more have written and titled others as a cherubic hymn.
I tend to be considered “out of the box” by many…both orthodox and non-orthodox, so I wouldnt change your overall opinion of the church changing quickly. However, in terms of media and technology we are advancing.
I hope you continue to enjoy the prayers. Recently included on orthotracts.org many archived radio programs that teach about orthodox faith and practice.
Peace,
Dismas
Webmaster@orthotracts.org
Orthodox Christians are all over the net! From the Orthodox mailing list (which is as old as any other mailing list on the net, coming out of Indiana Edu and going back to December of 1993) to the Greek Archdiocese youth ministry (using the net in 1995) to Orthodox blogs (I’ve been blogging on my own domain for 7 years).
But the nets only been around for a few years. It took 300+ years to get a Biblical canon. Nothing to worry about.
What we need now is an orthodox podcast! Just how do we get that smell of incense onto an ipod…