Made to Be a Kingdom

About this podcast

An exploration of the concepts of “Royal Priesthood” and “Priestly Kingdom.”

Episodes

The newest 20 of 141 episodes

• The Boundaries of the Church and the Mystery of Grace16 Oct 2026What does it mean to confess that the Orthodox Church is the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, and how should we understand Christians who live outside her canonical…
• The Ecclesiology of Discernment19 Sep 2026Fr. Anthony shares some thoughts on the ecclesiology of discernment, based on a talk he gave to the clergy of the Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Miami and the Southeast in…
• The Journey of Bread is Our Journey4 Sep 2026What happens to the bread during the Divine Liturgy—and what does its journey reveal about what God is doing with us? Fr. Anthony follows the prosphora from scattered grains of…
• From Consumer to Communion28 Aug 2026Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony continue their discussion of consumerism by examining what happens when we begin treating the Church—and even other people—as products that can be…
• The Church of Quid Pro Quo21 Aug 2026Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony examine how our consumerist and transactional habits can quietly shape the way we approach giving, worship, prayer, and even our relationships with one…
• Local Roots in a Digital Babylon19 Jun 2026As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Fr. Anthony and Fr. Harry reflect on patriotism, nationhood, and the relationship between local communities and the Church. Drawing…
• Who Is Welcome? Boundaries, Love, and the Protection of the Church12 Jun 2026Following Pentecost, Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony discuss how the Church protects and nurtures healthy parish culture while remaining faithful to Christ's command to care for His…
• The Spirit Descends: Pentecost, the Eucharist, and the Life of the Age to Come29 May 2026In this episode of Made to be a Kingdom, Fathers Anthony Perkins and Harry Linsenbigler explore Pentecost as the climactic fulfillment of God’s saving work, where the Holy Spirit…
• From Pascha to Ascension: The Fulfillment of the Resurrection22 May 2026In this episode of Made to be a Kingdom, Fathers Anthony Perkins and Harry Linsenbigler complete their exploration of Paschaltide by tracing its culmination in the Feast of the…
• Christ Is Risen—and Everything Changes: The Theology of Paschaltide8 May 2026In this episode of Made to be a Kingdom, Fathers Anthony Perkins and Harry Linsenbigler explore how Pascha functions as the Church’s great “reset,” reordering the liturgical year…
• Not About Us: The Shift from Lent to Holy Week (and beyond)3 Apr 2026Today we are reflecting on a critical transition in the life of the Church: the movement from Great Lent into Holy Week and then into the feast of Pascha. As we’ll see, this is…
• Fasting as the Body of Christ: The Ecclesial Shape of Great Lent13 Mar 2026Great Lent is not a private self-improvement program; it is the Church’s shared praxis of becoming the Body of Christ through fasting, prayer, and worship. Fathers Harry and…
• Built on the Anointed Rock: Christ, the Church, and the Gates of Death27 Feb 2026In this episode of Made to be a Kingdom, Fathers Harry Linsenbigler and Anthony Perkins return to Christ’s words in Matthew 16–18 to explore what Scripture reveals about the…
• Where Is the Church? Matthew 16:18, the Confession of Peter, and Paschal Victory20 Feb 2026In this episode, Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony slow down over Christ’s words in Matthew 16— especially the phrase “my Church”—to clarify that the Church is first Christ’s possession…
• Before Pentecost: The Church Older Than the Sun and Moon13 Feb 2026Pentecost isn't the Church's birthday: the Church precedes it, stretching back to creation itself, angels, prophets, patriarchs, and is revealed most clearly in Christ and the…
• Whose Church Is It? Belonging, Not Owning30 Jan 2026In this New Year episode, Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony challenge the casual habit of saying “my church” by reframing ecclesial identity: the Church is of God—not our possession, but…
• Scaling the Parish Without Losing the Family2 Jan 2026As parishes grow, the priest-and-everyone model that once felt like “family” can become unsustainable—especially in catechesis, confession, and pastoral care. Fr. Anthony and Fr…
• Holy Things for the Holy: Offices, Fatherhood, and the Shared Vocation of the Faithful18 Dec 2025Recorded in person during a seminary week at South Bound Brook, Fr. Anthony Perkins and Fr. Harry Linsenbigler reflect on two passages from In Every Church (p. 78) to clarify how…
• Guarding the Faith Online: Ecclesiology, Consumerism, and the Temptation to Teach21 Nov 2025Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony explore how internet culture, consumerism, and disincarnate “platforms” distort Orthodox teaching and tempt all of us to become unappointed theologians…
• Ecclesiology Where It Lives: Salvation Is Local31 Oct 2025In this episode, Fr. Harry and Fr. Anthony unpack how a truly sacramental worldview means that the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church is concretely instantiated in your…