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A podcast where Andy Schmitt talks with theologians, authors, and reporters about Orthodox Christian belief and its connection to godly living in every aspect of ones life.

  1. 18/12/2025

    #160 // Dr. Michael Ward | Artificial Intelligence & The Abolition Of Man

    If you’re like me and grew up in the public school system, you may have been taught that language, reality, and truth are merely subjective. That there is no true meaning and therefore, no true values, and purpose in life. This is the philosophical illusion that most modern Westerners are born into without even knowing it. In C.S. Lewis’ book, The Abolition of Man, he attacks that very subjectivist philosophical system. But he doesn’t begin his argument in a way that you may expect, in fact, he starts his abolition of subjectivism by discussing a particular green textbook that, in his time, was being used to teach children this dangerous postmodern philosophy. Lewis goes on to explain that men who adhere to this philosophy and adopt all of its inconsistencies don’t merely exist in a constant state of confusion – no, they actually cease to men altogether. He says that this ideology actually leads to a full-on abolition of man – the end of humanity itself. But to understand what Lewis is trying to tell us modern people, you need to read his book along with another book written by the Oxford professor, Dr. Michael Ward – author of Planer Narnia and many other books and actor in a James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. His book, After Humanity is a guide to CS Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. So, I had a conversation with Dr. Ward about Lewis, technology, postmodernism, Artificial Intelligence, contraceptives, and logical positivism. We discussed what happens when man denies objective reality and forfeits his nature and purpose and we ask the daunting and pressing question of the modern age: What comes After Humanity? After Humanity - Michael Ward Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 33m

  2. 12/12/2025

    #159 // Rebeccah Heinrichs | Why Christians Must Defend Israel

    Over the past year Jew hatred has become a massive trend not just among liberals, but also among self-proclaimed “conservatives” like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Nick Fuentes. If you listen to them, you probably think the “Jews” are secretly running our society and controlling out lives. You may be convinced of the arguments made by those on the far right about isolationism and Christian Nationalism, whatever that is, and about how Americans need to stay completely out of the rest of the world are thoughtful and legitimate. You may have heard theological, philosophical, and political arguments for these things. But you would be wrong. In fact, you would be missing the whole point of what these bad faith actors like Tucker and Candace are actually doing. What their actual goal is. But Rebeccah Heinrich hasn’t missed the point. In fact, she wrote a piece for The Free Press last summer called “The Right’s 1939 Project” in which she dismantles the arguments made by self-proclaimed Conservative Christians like Tucker, Candace, and Fuentes and compares their post World War 2 revisionist history to the infamous 1619 project from the New York Times in 2019. Rebeccah then, later on, wrote a piece on the National Review about why Christians should support Israel. It’s my opinion that Rebeccah is one of the only people in Conservative circles who is seeing the whole problem facing our culture and calling it out for what it is. And so, this is my conversation with Rebeecah Heinrich – I hope you enjoy!   Christians Should Defend the Jewish People - Rebeccah Heinrichs The Right’s 1939 Project - Rebeccah Heinrichs Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    43 min

  3. 04/12/2025

    #158 // Jonathan Freedland | How To Defy Tyrants & Nazis

    In 1943 a group of high society anti-Nazi’s from Germany met together to discuss ways in which they could defy the Nazi regime and rebuild Germany after the war. What they didn’t know is that at that meeting there was a spy. Someone who would betray them all. In Jonathan Freedland’s new book, The Traitors Circle, he tells this unknown story of those within the Nazi regime that chose to give up everything to defy and disrupt Hitler’s plans. Why? Well, it’s not as clear cut as you could imagine. In fact, most of these anti-Nazi’s could have stayed silent, looked the other way, and remained comfortable in their high society lives until the war was over. But they didn’t. In my conversation with Jonathan Freedland, we talked about what or who could convince a group of men and women who did not need to give their lives up to sacrifice for the ultimate good of not only Germany, but the world. I hope you enjoy. Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 4m

  4. 19/11/2025

    #157 // Zineb Riboua | How Zohran Mamdani Became The Mayor Of New York City

    Zohran Mamdani was just elected to be the next Mayor of New York City. How did an anti-American, anti-Capitalism, anti-Jew, anti-Western millennial become the most powerful person in the largest city in the United States? I wanted to know. So, I talked with Zineb Riboua – a research fellow with Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She’s written extensively on the Middle East and the ongoing power struggles in one of the most violent and unstable regions in the world. But what does Middle Eastern politics have to do with New York City and Zohran Mamandi? Zineb argues that the ideology that led the Left to believe that Israel and Britian were the fundamentally evil powers in Europe and the Middle East because of their “colonialization” is the same ideology that Zohran used to capture the attention and votes of the suicidal Democratic ideologues in New York City. The younger generations white colonialization guilt and Third Worldism philosophy were key factors in Zohrans ability to manipulate the American people in the largest city in the country to vote for a self-proclaimed Marxist Socialist. So, what happens to New York City next? Will it sprout into a utopia or fall into oblivion? Here’s my conversation with Zineb Riboua. I hope you enjoy!    Zineb's article on The Free Press: https://www.thefp.com/p/what-the-right-gets-wrong-about-zohran    Zineb's Substack, Beyond The Ideological: https://www.zinebriboua.com    Zineb on The Hudson Institute: https://www.hudson.org/experts/1467-zineb-riboua Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 15m

  5. 05/11/2025 · BONUS

    The End Of America.

    Nick Fuentes, Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk. What do all of those names have in common? An utter lack of virtue and theological direction. Why? Because they play Marxist power games and refuse to deal with the core, fundamental problems our society faces — instead, they spend their time fighting to control the narrative and build artificial gods and platforms. And what happens when a society is filled with wickedness and immorality? Chaos. Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 32m

  6. 22/10/2025

    #156 // Dr. Mary Talley Bowden | Is The Medical Industry Beyond Saving?

    The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic started almost five years ago. You would think that in five years we would know more about what actually happened leading up to the pandemic and why, during the pandemic so many of our medical “experts” were so wrong about so many different things. If you remember, the legacy media publicly humiliated people who were using ivermectin and doctors who were giving it to their sick and almost dying patients. Mary Talley Bowden was one of those doctors. She was publicly shamed by some of the largest media outlets in the world for trying to give ivermectin to a patient who was dying during the pandemic. For doing so, she lost certain medical privileges and has been continuously investigated by the Texas Medical Board. This saga has culminated, in the past week, in a public reprimand (and who know what that even means) of Mary. You might be wondering what the goal of this reprimand is? Well, to put it simply, it’s to destroy her career and reputation for speaking truth against the medical regime during the COVID pandemic. They want her silenced. Who is they? You’ll be surprised to learn that the man leading the Texas Medical Board is none other than Republican Governor of Texas, Gregg Abbott. I thought the Republicans were the ones fighting against the authoritarians and oligarchs who tried to kill millions of people and control our lives during COVID – I guess I was wrong. Mary has spent years of her life fighting for her and your medical freedom. She’s spent $250,000 on legal fees and has persevered through public humiliation because she believes what was done during COVID was immoral and evil. This is my interview with Mary Talley Bowden. I hope you enjoy! Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    59 min

  7. 03/10/2025

    #155 // Dr. Peter McCullough | Does Tylenol Cause Autism?

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Trump Administration have talked quite a bit about the fact that there is a 400% increase in autism rates in children up to 8 years old between 2000 and 2022. They claim that in America we’ve gone from 1 in 150 children having autism to 1 in 31 children having autism. This spike in autism rates has had its effect on millions of families across the country and has raised serious questions related to the food we eat, the vaccines we take, and the medicine we consume on a regular basis. And now RFK Jr. announced that Tylenol, when taken late in pregnancy, is connected to the rise in autism rates. This announcement brought about a frenzy of reaction from left wing and right wing media outlets and liberal lunatics on TikTok. Much of the liberal mainstream media claimed that RFK Jr. was a quack conspiracy theorist who has no business lecturing the American people on health and medicine. And the liberals on TikTok thought it best to stick it to the Trump administration by downing as much Tylenol as humanly possible while pregnant. But aside from what the liberal regime is saying, I wanted to know more about this new study that the White House released and its legitimacy. I want to know if Tylenol causes autism or is only associated with autism. So, I reached out to Dr. Peter McCullough. You may know him from the days of COVID in 2020. Dr. McCullough was one of a few doctors across America who challenged the mainstream narrative related to the COVID Vaccine’s and treatments. His career and his reputation were publicly condemned and ridiculed for this. To this day Wikipedia says that “McCullough has promoted misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID-19, its treatments, and mRNA vaccines.” Now THAT statement is an objective lie. Dr. McCullough was willing to put his life’s work on the line during COVID and challenge the mainstream narrative, and he was right about everything he said. I thought it would be interesting to hear from Dr. McCullough about the new White House initiatives related to autism and their approach to learning about the autism epidemic. Are RFK Jr and his team actually just liars and conspiracy theorists? Or is the America Medical Industry stuck in a downward spiral of political ideological capture and a denial of facts and truth? Here’s my interview with Dr. Peter McCullough. I hope you enjoy. Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 7m

  8. 02/10/2025

    #154 // Josh Code | Why 50,000 Christians In Nigeria Have Been Murdered

    In this episode I talked with a Free Press reporter, Josh Code. He recently wrote an article on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In this article he interviewed a Christian man in Nigeria who was taken captive by Muslims and beaten for his participation in helping two women escape from their hometown after converting from Islam to Christianity. We talked about the American Government’s response to the Christian persecution in Nigeria and why this persecution is even happening in the first place. We finally discussed the problems with liberal Christianity and what the story of persecution in Nigeria can teach Christians in the West. I hope you enjoy! Other Free Press stories from Josh Code: https://www.thefp.com/p/arrested-againfor-holding-a-sign https://www.thefp.com/p/a-muscle-mans-message-jordan-castro Sign up for my newsletter and never miss an episode: https://www.orthodoxyandorder.com Follow me on X: https://x.com/andyschmitt99 Email me at andy@optivnetwork.com with your questions! Music: "nesting" by Birocratic (http://birocratic.lnk.to/allYL)

    1h 9m
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A podcast where Andy Schmitt talks with theologians, authors, and reporters about Orthodox Christian belief and its connection to godly living in every aspect of ones life.

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  • Creator
    Andy Schmitt
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
    211
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    © 2019-2025 Schmitt Media Company LLC
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