“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it” - C.S. Lewis

I burst into tears after hearing this - because I've been thinking exactly this for a long time and never thought to hear it anywhere other than in my own head. Thanks Mr Kingsnorth.

That's so true we do need saints and to respect them and try to be like them. Not treat them as trivial.

A great & simple way out of the morass the Church has made for itself by wanting to be loved by modern society. Well done Mr Kingsnorth. You clearly see !

Love this, well said! (From a protestant Christian)

I so, so agree with what is being said here. We need to completely (re)position and talk about Christianity as the mystery that it is. Blow people’s minds in a most beautiful way! I’ve been thinking about how we might do this as a series of personal testimonies, for example.

Affirmative: this gentleman who leans into orthodoxy and what he says in this brief clip is Right on Target and that's what describes the accomplishments of various restoration movements around the world; many that have sprung up on simultaneous timelines and a few on other timelines.

Bang on, unabashed.

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Christianity in the west is to deeply know, hold to, teach, live and preach the Biblical gospel of Jesus Christ. He is the head of the church, his words are our absolute foundation and salvation is only found in him through the gospel.

"a simple change of heart..." lyric by Carrie Newcomer

Paul, you have hit the nail on the head. Western churches have drifted into a doctrine-based faith, rather than an experiential and transformative view of the divine. I have studied Franciscan Monk Richard Rhor, and Trappist Monks, Thomas Keating, and Thomas Merton, who have taught the way to experience God that has been lost to the West.

The 'Church' has told its stories plenty.

The Orthodox Church always points out the lack of lineage in the Western Heterodox denominations (including non- denominational which is a denomination)

There was one holy catholic church before schism . Petrine office, petrine succession, the see of Peter, the holy sea where the succession of Peter was honoured, the world was Catholic.

Paul Kingsnorth reminds me of the perennial complaints of all the older generations of the past, “everything is going to rack and ruin today, it was so much better in past ages” And his answer is religion, not just any religion, but the past saints of his religion. He should read Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of our Nature. In it he writes, “believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. Despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history” Exploding the myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity.

As saints we do not "have" in the world, we are with our Father after Jesus. From him we are given eyes after we give up what we "have" to see with the Holy Spirit. On earth. This from God through us, to the world. Not ever from us. That possessive self dies so the Holy Spirit can be born through us instead.

Im hearing a real Light Art and God go hand in hand Saints yes

couldn't agree more.

"We need saints! More saints in the world" ... but is the world ready for these saints so as to achieve holiness or become more saintly-like? Very much doubt that, or, at least, it's one big question to ask before declaring with such emphasis what this world needs. It was during one of those horrid times such as the English 17th century of civil wars when oh so many saints were roaming the landscape, so many righteous people were calling people to virtue, while waging war against heretics, 'sensuals', persecutors, false brethrens, just as this voice in the clip would point his righteous finger at scientism, for example. But is it scientism that tears the world apart, or the need of people to mis-use something like science to wage their battles against one another, tearing the world apart in the process? Address the scientism and people will replace it with something else. And, more important, will the saints be used to fight some of these battles? Will holiness be brought on the barricades? If so, then I guess we're already looking at it, it's just we don't know where this sainthood is anymore. Strangely enough, holiness has mingled, it's on every side, it's in the Church story as well, sometime shouting, sometime whispering, like much in this world that has lost its clear lines of good and bad, of things to mourn and to be proud of. And then there's the ego. Of course, lose the ego! But sometimes I think this is just an excuse. A mission and a technique for exceptions, of exceptional individuals, that will never get to change the world because you cannot have a world of saints, of holy men, of ascetics. And their truth that is so out of this world that needs to have a world to be out of touch with for it to actually work unto this world. Although, it's that sometimes I doubt that truth has set anyone free - does the truth set you free from the conditions to arrive at it?

If Christianity is true then the life we live in this world is just a footnote to eternity so why does it matter if it's saved or not

Funny how what's "spiritual" always seems to be whatever the person describing it is in favor of.

hmmm, not completely convinced. We are where we are, the new Jerusalem is a city not an eden, and cities require technology in order to function. Yes we need saints, but saints now, people who will witness to Jesus in our modern setting. Yes the Orthodox Church has some great things but so do other churches, like charismatic and pentecostal which major on the immediacy of Gods presence. I do think they struggle to differentiate between capitalist culture and the kingdom of God, so this is where the Orthodox Church could help them maybe

people are realising God doesn't exist and that's hard for humans to come to terms with.

Read the Philokalia (the Love of the Good and Beautiful) to understand the narrow gate towards salvation through the Cross as explained by the Church Fathers of the first 1000 years of the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christian Orthodoxy. It teaches the way one can overcome the passions that lead to sin and suffering.

Are non-believers going to hell, Paul?

How saints are made? Its the vatican that make people saints... you need money & the power of vatican.. There is no monopoly about the authority of God.

You haven't even got the basics of NT worship right. You're both wrong

What is missing in Western Christianity is the belief on Jesus Christ. The only way to be saved is to believe on Jesus Christ. Many will say Lord, Lord and Jesus will tell them to depart from me, I never knew you. To be saved, you need to do the will of the Father.

It should be a political challenge, and you should be calling for activism in the name of Christ! Why not...

Does it take a saint to get the churches to get the Catholic Church to properly atone for its systemic enabling of child abusers? If so, lets have some saints. Personally, I'd have thought ordinary, decent people without a vested interest could do it

But what I want to know is when is your Ethereum coin offering dropping... 😉

It’s missing any sense of reality

Nothing worse than science.......looking for rational and natural explanations of how the universe works. It will be the death of us. We need to stop and accept magic as the only way to live a full and spiritual life.

The core is story telling from some Greeks about a dead jewish preacher who got executed by the Romans for rebellion.

The emotional and psychologically abusive childhood I had in the Catholic church and a Catholic education is not the solution to out boken society and search for 'spirituality.' It didn't have my well being as its central purpose. A Christian story is awful in the old testament. The new testament is not much better - so many more life affirming acts a 'god' could have done than a blood sacrifice in the unbelievable resection story. There are some great teachings in the bible on forgiveness etc but there are also great vales, spirtual teachings and practices in other regions and practices. I've been involved in other non Catholic Christian activities as an adult, but I've never got from prayer the deep peace, and connectedness I've found in Buddhist meditation and teachings.

There is nothing "radical" about the Christian story... it is not unlike some other religions of it's time, and, although it has it's own unique expression, it is full of holes in plot lines, inconsistencies and even some very unhealthy, primitive ideas to go along with it's flashes of kindness. It is a dualistic religion, which simply makes zero scientific sense, given modern insights into the nature of reality... material reality has been literally debunked... consciousness is all that exists, and, therefore "nondualism" is where truth leads. So, for something "radical" (and true) and wholly loving and exceptional I would invite you to bark up Eastern philosophical traditions such as Advaita Vedanta.

Scienticism is destroying the civilisation. - Someone with his webcam and microphone on the world wide web.