Ben Christenson is the Washington DC-based author of Living as Creatures—a Substack I have been faithfully reading for the better part of a year now.
I reached out to him last Saturday afternoon about appearing on the podcast and we ended up recording our episode on Wednesday morning! Ben has become one of my favourite writers this year, and it was a pleasure to chat with him about his journey from Anglicanism to Eastern Orthodoxy, his approach to cultural artifacts like books and movies, his philosophy of marriage, his writing career, and of course, the four types of young Christians he knows.
Other Ben Pieces Discussed
“COVID Taught Me How to Get Married” with The Living Church
Books Mentioned
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1867)
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (1997-2007)
Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer (2005-2008)
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (2011)
Welcome to the Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity by Frederica Mathewes-Green (2015)
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith (2016)
Movies & TV Shows Mentioned
The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
Robin Hood by Wolfgang Reitherman (1973)
Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (1994)
Spy Kids by Robert Rodriguez (2001)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by Peter Jackson (2001-2003)
How I Met Your Mother by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas (2005-2014)
High School Musical by Kenny Ortega (2006)
Transformers by Michael Bay (2007)
The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan (2008)
Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
Euphoria by Sam Levinson (2019-present)
Anora by Sean Baker (2024)
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