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About This Podcast

Most Western Christians are taught to understand salvation through guilt and forgiveness. But what if Christianity historically told a bigger story?

Trouble in Paradise explores how assumptions about the Fall, Original Sin, and human nature shape how Christians understand salvation, grace, freedom, and the Gospel itself.

Through personal story, historical theology, and honest reflection, this podcast examines why Eastern Orthodox Christianity often seems difficult for Western Christians to understand — and how reexamining humanity’s fall may reveal a deeper and more ancient vision of Christianity.

What You’ll Hear in This Podcast

• Personal journey through theological crisis and discovery • The history and development of Original Sin • Differences between Western and Eastern views of salvation • The relationship between sin, death, and human brokenness • Historical theology explained in accessible language • Honest wrestling with difficult theological questions

Who This Podcast Is For

• Christians wrestling with faith questions • Evangelical, Reformed, and Catholic listeners curious about Orthodoxy • Catechumens and Christian inquirers • Former Christians who stepped away because Christianity stopped making sense • Anyone interested in the historical development of Christian theology

Why This Podcast Exists

This is the podcast I wish existed when I began asking difficult theological questions — when answers were not simple, not systematic, and not easy to find.

Coming Soon

Early episodes explore:

• What Original Sin is and how it developed • How Eastern Christianity understands the Fall • How those differences change how salvation itself is understood