Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

Father John Strickland joins the show about joining the Orthodox Church.

What do they believe? I was just curious. I wanted to learn a lot of people are joining the Orthodox Church.

In fact, I know a lot more people that are joining Roman Catholicism and in the Orthodox Church than the Evangelical Church.

So I seek to learn. And I think you'll learn something to very sweet man, very godly man. I think you'll enjoy it. Email us, as always, freedom at charliecirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. That is the Charlie Kirk Show podcast page and get involved with Turning Point USA at TPUSA.com. That is TPSA.com. Buckle up, everybody here. We go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful

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That's why we are here. Okay, everybody, welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show. So excited to be sitting down

with Father John Strickland from St. Elizabeth Orthodox Church in Pulsebo, Washington. Is that

right? Pretty close, yeah. Or Pallispo?

Polisbo. So the reason I wanted to have you on the program, Father, you are from the Eastern Orthodox Church,

is that correct?

Yeah.

And I know fair amount about Catholicism.

I know fair amount about Protestantism, but admittedly very little about Orthodox.

And it's getting a lot of play online, as you probably know.

And I know a couple people that are Serbian Orthodox growing up or were a lot of you in Orthodox, but I don't know much about the theology or the history. So I told Blake, I said, Blake, find me someone that can come on the show and we can just have a fun discussion. You can educate me and the audience. So first, great to meet you and welcome to the program.

Nice to be here, Charlie. Thank you for inviting me.

So first, kind of your story, you're a parish priest. You grew up in Southern California in a Protestant background.

Why did you convert to Orthodoxy?

Well, I started studying history. They sometimes say I was raised Protestant and I was Protestant. They say sometimes

when a Protestant studies history, he becomes Roman Catholic. In my case, I became Orthodox. A history

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