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The Symbolic World

448 - Fr. Josiah Trenham - How to Integrate Faith, Family, and Nation

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8933 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with Fr. Josiah Trenham to talk about something that’s becoming harder to ignore: how to properly order your loyalties.
We discussed the tension between faith, nation, family, and personal identity, and what happens when those come into conflict. 

Join us at the Symbolic World Summit, where Fr. Josiah will be one of the keynote speakers. 
May 14-16 | Ohio | Keynote speakers: Jonathan Pageau, Fr. Josiah Trenham, Mary Harrington, Dcn. Seraphim Rohlin, Kale Zelden, Annie Crawford, and Heather Pollington
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0:00.0

Christ eternalizes and the saints are indestructible.

0:05.7

Holiness is indestructible.

0:07.3

The clock's ticking on evil.

0:08.7

It's on its way out.

0:09.5

It's going to get dropped into nothingness soon enough upon Christ's return.

0:14.1

But all of the beautiful, all of the holy, the solidity.

0:18.2

I've always felt that as an Orthodox Christian.

0:20.1

Every step I've taken as an Orthodox Christian. Every step I've taken, as an

0:22.3

Orthodox Christian, I feel like it's a step towards solidity, to permanence, to being able to

0:29.2

conquer death in my own patheticness. And I think that's right. I think that one of the great

0:36.6

things about the kingdom of God is just absolutely indestructible.

0:39.3

This is Jonathan Peugeot-O.

0:52.3

Welcome to the symbolic world.

0:55.0

Hello, everyone.

1:05.0

I am here with Father Josiah Trenum.

1:08.0

Of course, everyone knows Father Josiah. It's such a joy to have him on the podcast, but I'm mostly happy because in a few weeks, he will be one of the main speakers at the Symbolic World Summit. We were surprised that he accepted. He's becoming so famous now. We don't even know. We don't even know. But we're really happy. We feel like he's definitely very much in line

1:30.8

with the things that symbolic world that we care about, that I care about. And so, you know,

1:35.4

I wanted to have him here, Ashley, to talk about how he integrates the different stories in his life,

1:41.2

his faith, how he integrates also, you know, his national

1:45.6

story, his family story, all that, because I've seen him do it beautifully. And so,

1:49.3

so Father Joseph, first of all, Christ is risen? Truly, he has risen, Jonathan. And so thanks

1:54.6

for talking to me. This is, this is something that I'm asking you because I want to know this

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