428: Orthodox Marriage: Civilization's Last Hope with Fr. Josiah Trenham

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Voetberg Music Academy 2025 Fall Competition
Tue, Oct. 21, 2025 12:00 PM - Wed, Oct. 22, 2025 3:30 PM

Join us this fall for a music competition that includes:
Guitar | Fiddle | Piano | Mandolin | Ukulele
Entry to the fall competition is free for VMA students. If you are not enrolled Voetberg Music Academy then we would love to have you! You can either sign up for one of our signature courses or pay a one-time $20 entry fee.

Learn more information here - https://www.voetbergmusicacademy.com/2025-fall-competition

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Father Josiah Trenham is a native Southern Californian. He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood in 1993, and was awarded the Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Durham, England, in 2004. He has served as pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Church in Riverside, Ca. since 1998. Father Josiah was married in 1988, and has ten children and five grandchildren.

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0:00.0	That's what people popularly call contraception.
0:02.0	Protection.
0:02.8	I've always wondered, like, who's the great monster you're protecting yourself from?
0:06.6	Children protect you from the greatest monster, which is self-absorption.
0:13.2	Today we've got to interview someone that I have wanted to meet for a while, and that is Father Josiah.
0:18.7	I've been very encouraged by what he has shared online.
0:22.8	I think I found him on Lila Rose, her podcast.
0:26.9	But then it was funny to realize when I showed him to Elisha,
0:31.9	oh, they have a connection that goes a ways back.
0:34.5	We're actually able to find Father Josiah and Elisha arguing,
0:39.0	well, Elisha was like pitching him, his questions in an old email thread.
0:45.4	And Elisha was saying all of his, I don't know, what would you say?
0:49.4	Yeah, just questions, oppositions to orthodox.
0:53.0	Classic Protestant questions to someone who's Orthodox, basically.
0:56.7	You can imagine what they would be.
0:58.6	And it was so funny to just, I don't know, see this old conversation and feel like the Lord
1:05.2	just really brought him into our lives at a wonderful time.
1:07.5	And so this was an encouraging conversation to have. And I just, I want to be around
1:12.8	Father Josiah more. Like, I wish he wasn't all the way down in Southern California because it's just,
1:18.2	I don't know, I'm so inspired right now. I am. Yeah, we're buzzing right now, like, and just so grateful
1:23.6	to be married. The way that Father Josiah Trenum is able to articulate the blessing that
1:28.5	marriage is this high calling and then the blessing that children are, again, I don't want to go on
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