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17 | Flesh of My Flesh - The Church Part 2

The Church is the Bride of Christ, and that, more than any other dimension of Church life, is an eschatalogical reality. It is a fact that anchors the purpose of the C...

16 | Mysteries of the Kyriakon Doma - The Church Part 1

“If the Church is really supposed to be yours, you’ll have to make that much more obvious than it is at present.”Joseph Ratzinger, aka Pope Benedict XVI, paraphrasing ...

15 | Cloud Rider, Tongues of Fire

In this episode, Anthony and Blaine discuss the Ascension and Pentecost, linking those events as two sides of the same coin in the story of God. In the Ascension, Jesu...

14 | The Carnal Solution - Jesus Part 3

In this episode, Anthony and Blaine discuss suffering, surrender, and incarnate spirituality as Jesus’s solution to the World and the Flesh. This is the third installm...

13 | Siege on Hades - Jesus Part 2

In this episode, Blaine and Anthony continue their conversation on the work of Jesus: How, exactly, does Jesus deal with the problem of spiritual oppression? Why does ...

12 | Apocalypse Priest - Jesus Part 1

In this episode, Blaine and Anthony continue their series on the Story of God by arriving, at last, at Jesus. In particular, this show addresses the way in which Jesus...

11 | Israel

Why did God choose to create the nation of Israel? How was God’s decision to create a people where there was no people part of his plan to deal with sin, death, and sp...

10 | Examen

In this special episode, Blaine and Anthony discuss self-examination. Self-examination, or Examen, is a practice that followers of Jesus have used for centuries to see...

9 | Down From the Mountain of God

In this episode we continue our Story of God series by talking about the Fall, or more accurately the Falls. We explore the origins of evil in the world, including the...

8 | Eden Inception

In this episode we pick up where we left off in telling the Story of God. We ask the big questions like: What is the meaning of life? Why did God create is? What are w...

7 | Ukraine, Empire, and the Kingdom of God

We’re interrupting our series on the story of God to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine and the Church’s response to it.Where to ConnectMount Vigil has come to an e...

6 | The Powers

This is the second in our series on the Story of God. In this episode we discuss the spiritual powers found in the Bible: the Elohim and the Divine Counsel, angels and...

5 | Trinity

This is the first in a series of episodes on the story of God. We’ve talked about seeing reality as a story, we’ve talked about Apocalypse or spiritual revelation as t...

4 | Endgame

Grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca said that to succeed “you must study the endgame before anything else.” In this episode we talk about endgame, an idea from chess that...

3 | The Great Unveiling

In today's episode we talk about Apocalypse: the word, the genre of literature, the spiritual event. We attempt to develop a nuanced, robust, rounded-out sense of Apoc...

2 | Reality is a Revelation

In this episode, Blaine and Anthony discuss a foundational ability, an ability on which the rest of the Mount Vigil work depends: seeing reality.It’s never been easy t...

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