Optimize your life
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19 Oct 2021. Interview with Slovakian podcaster Jozef Mihalisin. Jozef MIHALIĊ IN (Slovakia) meets Rev. Michael BUTLER (USA) in an interview about essential masculine topics and his life journey. Who am I? Encounter with God. Fix yourself. Roman Catholic & Orthodox. Struggles of today’s men. Suicide rate. Family support. How to guide sons. The burden of …
25 Nov 2020. Lecture given to the Maniphesto Core men’s group. In commemoration of International Men’s Day 2020, Fr. Michael Butler gave an online lecture on the History of the Men’s Movement. The development of men and masculinity has been a conflictual and fragmented affair and this honest and thorough lecture covers the good, the …
18 Nov 2018. Interview with Andrew Sweeny on his Parallax podcast. 7:53 Orthodoxal mission in US.11:25 What’s the appeal of the Orthodox Tradition?11:58 Fr. Michael’s story of finding religion.15:45 Premodern, archetypal, symbolic orthodoxy.16:35 routines, personal embodied practical experience.17:08 Sanctification of time and space. Texture of meaning for life.19:25 Traditionalism.20:33 The Jordan Peterson phenomenon.23:17 Good man …
21 Aug 2015 Rooted in the Tradition of the Orthodox Church and its teaching on the relationship between God, humanity, and all creation, Fr. Michael Butler and Prof. Andrew Morriss offer a new contribution to Orthodox environmental theology. Too often policy recommendations from theologians and Church authorities have taken the form of pontifications, obscuring many …
In this episode, I look in depth at four related questions: What is wrong with young men, what are their problems? What are the secondary and contributing problems? What are the masculine role models they find in the popular culture? And what are the usual, presenting problems that they’re dealing with? I look at issues …
A talk I gave at the Iron Council’s live meetup last year, the Maine Event, on “Courage, or How to Man Up.” I discussed: Courage, and it’s place among the four classical virtues of courage, moderation, prudence, and justice. Why courage must come first, and the definition of courage. I then go on to lay …
Interview with Eivind F. Skjellum, who does excellent men’s work in Scandinavia, in which we touch on a number of different topics, from why young men are coming to the Orthodox Church, some of the problems they face, their desire to make an impact in the world, and the future of men and masculinity. Podcast: …
