Mar 31, 2026
What happens when faith is reduced to a feeling?
In this episode, I sit down with Fr. Justin Havens, a missionary
priest serving at St. Joseph the Hesychast Serbian Orthodox Church,
to talk about one of the most important spiritual questions of our
time:
Is truth something you feel… or something you encounter?
Drawing from years of missionary work in Utah—one of the most
spiritually unique regions in America—we unpack the contrast
between subjective religious experience and objective truth in
Christ, and why so many people today are starving for something
deeper.
This is a conversation about:
• the limits
of emotional spirituality
• the reality
of the ascetical life
• and why
Orthodoxy is quietly exploding in places no one expected
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