Christian seriousness for a confused public age.
Orthodoxy works through theology, history, philosophy, and politics with a patient but combative seriousness. Its conversations move from creation, Israel, Watergate, Nietzsche, Minnesota fraud, COVID-era controversies, and Solzhenitsyn toward questions of truth, authority, and faithful living.
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Orthodoxy is a long-form interview show where theology, politics, philosophy, and history are treated as connected moral terrain. Its center of gravity is Christian, but its range is wider than church talk. One conversation can spend serious time on Genesis, Adam and Eve, creation, the fall, pain, death, and the human task before God. Another can turn abruptly to Israel, Iran, evangelical foreign policy, and the difference between theological regard for the Jewish people and political obedience to the state of Israel. The show’s habits are plain: ask the direct question, admit what is unclear, then let the guest build the long answer. It is not polished into neat segments. That looseness is part of the texture. The conversations often sound like someone thinking aloud with a book, a guest, and a moral problem open on the table. Dr. Vern Poythress is used for careful doctrinal reasoning. Dr. Stephen Hicks brings Nietzsche, ethics, postmodernism, existentialism, Freud, Foucault, Camus, and Sartre into view. Geoff Shepard’s Watergate episode revisits Richard Nixon through documents, memory, and a challenge to the standard narrative. Rachel Rodriguez and Dr. Scott Jensen bring state politics into the frame through Florida, Minnesota, COVID-era governance, litigation, fraud, and constitutional language. Dr. Mary Talley Bowden’s episode moves through Epstein files, pandemic preparation, Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, and institutional distrust with clear speculative edges. Dr. David Deavel’s Solzhenitsyn conversation looks backward to the gulags, Chesterton, American culture, and warnings the West may have ignored. The show is strongest when it lets a guest make a large historical or theological arc without rushing to summarize it. It can also be combative, especially on foreign policy, pandemic politics, and media narratives. Listeners should expect conviction, repetition, and unresolved questions rather than tidy neutrality. Its best moments come when doctrine is allowed to press on public life: what is true, who benefits from confusion, and what happens when a culture refuses to name evil clearly.
Made for: For listeners who want Christianly grounded conversations about doctrine, politics, history, and philosophy. It especially fits people who prefer long-form argument over quick commentary.
What sets it apart: Orthodoxy does not keep theology in a devotional lane. It lets doctrinal claims collide with Watergate, Nietzsche, Israel, COVID politics, state corruption, and Solzhenitsyn’s warnings.
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.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Orthodoxy traces how Christian commitments become arguments about political power, historical responsibility, science, and public judgment.
Andy Schmitt treats theology as a working lens for public life, moving between guest conversations and direct political commentary. His questions give ideas room to develop: denominational authority emerges through Larry Sanger's account of choosing Anglicanism, while exchanges…
A conversion story becomes a full-system denomination audit; your footnotes may need footnotes.
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A steady Genesis conversation that treats doctrine as something to work through, not decorate.
This episode keeps Genesis grounded in real questions about creation, fall, pain, and purpose instead of turning them into slogans. It does its best work when it stays close to the text, naming where Scripture stops short and then tracing what follows for work, childbirth,…
A serious, uneasy argument about Israel, theology, and political loyalty.
This conversation takes on a hard question with real consequence: how to hold a covenantal Christian view of Israel without turning that view into a blanket defense of everything done in Israel's name.
A wartime moral argument about conviction, betrayal, and the cost of doing the right thing.
Jonathan Friedland's discussion of The Traitor's Circle draws strength from the true story at its center: a 1943 meeting of German anti-Nazis and the spy hidden among them.
Larry Sanger's denomination search becomes a careful case for how doctrine, worship, and conviction fit together.
Larry Sanger's move toward the ACNA feels less like a headline than the end point of a long argument with himself about what Christianity requires.
A Logos-centered conversation linking human dignity, Darwin, and Narnia.
Dr. Douglas Headley brings Darwin, the image of God, and the Logos into the same frame, and the conversation works best when it stays close to the plain questions: what gives human beings dignity, what does language reveal, and what does John 1:1 mean for Christian thought?
Astead Herndon reports the 2024 campaign trail, from Iowa evangelicals to America's non-voters
Vern Poitras returns to discuss his new book on creation and the fall.
The host says his pro-Israel stance has grown over the past several years and sharpened after the attacks on Israel on October 7th, 2023.
This episode features an interview with Rachel Rodriguez, a Republican candidate for governor of Florida, discussing her background as a litigator and her motivation to run due to concerns about constitutional rights and government overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This episode features an interview with Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon White House staffer, discussing his alternative perspective on the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's presidency.
This episode features Dr.
Andy Schmitt interviews Dr.
Andy Schmitt and Mary Talley Bowden discuss the Epstein file dump and its connections to COVID-19, Bill Gates, and healthcare.
Andy Schmitt interviews David Devol about Solzhenitsyn's life, works, and influence on American culture from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
Andy Schmitt interviews Dr.
Andy Schmitt interviews Rebecca Heinrich about right-wing antisemitism and Christian support for Israel from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
Jonathan Freedland joins the show to talk about *The Traitor's Circle*, a book based on true events in Nazi Germany.
Analysis of Zohra Mamdani's election as NYC mayor and the leftist ideology behind it.
Andy Schmitt discusses personal life updates and plans for upcoming interviews on Orthodox Christian belief and living.
Interview with Dr.
An interview with Dr.
The episode discusses the alleged link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and rising autism rates, featuring an interview with Dr.
Andy Schmidt discusses the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, focusing on societal divides and the church's response from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
Larry Sanger explains why he chose the ACNA.
Andy Schmitt interviews Ian Duggett about his book on Acts 1-8, discussing church planting and avoiding misinterpretation of the book of Acts.
Andy Schmitt discusses geopolitics and the rise of isolationism on the political right with guest John M.
This episode previews upcoming podcast conversations with Tammy Peterson on art, parenting, and Christianity, and with Graham Cole on angels and demons, while the title suggests a political analysis of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Republicanism.
Andy Schmidt hosts a solo episode discussing recent life events and upcoming interviews, reflecting on past episodes about Orthodox Christian belief.
Andy Schmitt discusses how Orthodox Christian belief connects to the idea of divine providence in American history.
Andy Schmitt interviews Dan Taylor about story, shalom, and living as characters in God's narrative from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
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Andy Schmidt provides an immediate reaction and recap of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election results, discussing the candidates and Wisconsin's political landscape from a Christian perspective.
Andy Schmitt discusses the trend of young men moving from non-denominational churches to more structured traditions like Catholicism and Anglicanism, and interviews reporter Lauren Canterbury about local news and other topics.
Andy Schmitt discusses and critiques theologian Gavin Ortlund's apologetics and defense of Protestantism from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
This episode features an interview with Eric Kaufmann discussing his experiences with institutional decline, conservatism, and the social justice movement, including his academic career and views on Western civilization.
Andy Schmitt discusses a breaking story about NSA sex chats and government corruption uncovered by Christopher Ruffo and Hannah Grossman.
Andy Schmidt interviews Leah Sava about abortion legislation, IVF morality, and pro-life activism from an Orthodox Christian perspective.
The host responds to a listener's question about whether Catholicism aligns with conservatism and explores the tensions between Protestantism, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy regarding individualism and modern interpretations of doctrine.