Conflicted Community – Aimen Interviews Thomas

CONFLICTED

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Religion & Spirituality, History

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

All Conflicted fans know Aimen’s life story – but what about that of his co-host, Thomas Small? Avid listeners will have heard Thomas talk about his Orthodox Christian faith and his time as a novice monk at a monastery on the Greek island of Mount Athos, but the story of how he got there, and why he decided to leave the brotherhood, is a fascinating tale… This week, Thomas and Aimen switch roles to find out more about Thomas’ spiritual journey. We’re putting out this episode to all of our dear listeners, because Thomas is releasing a new podcast over on Substack called ‘Life Sentences’. This is Thomas’ attempt to introduce to the world the Church Fathers – the Christian writers, theologians, mystics and divines who wrote in the first 1000 years of Christianity. The podcast sees Thomas read out the texts of the Church Fathers and comment on them as he goes, making them relevant to today. It’s a fascinating listen, and we hope all Conflicted listeners will tune in when the first episode goes live on Sunday July 14th. You can subscribe and find out more about the podcast through the website at: https://wisdomreadings.substack.com/ To listen to more bonus episodes like this one, subscribe to the Conflicted Community. And don’t forget, subscribers can also join our Conflicted Community chatroom, where you can interact with fellow dearest listeners, discuss episodes past and future, get exclusive messages from Thomas and Aimen, ask future Q&A questions and so much more. All the information you need to sign up to the Conflicted Community is on this link: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ And finally – Conflicted season 5 goes live next Wednesday on July 17th! Thomas and Aimen have been cooking up a whole new season on… Africa. Tune in next Wednesday for the first episode. Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello dearest listeners. Aimandine is here. Yes, you're hearing it right. Aimandine's here.
0:08.0	Welcoming back our conflicted community. Hello Thomas.
0:13.0	Hello, Aemann, how fun for you to be in the driver's seat this time?
0:17.0	Of course, I'm enjoying it. I'm savoring every last moment of it.
0:21.0	Dearest listeners, I'm sure you are wondering why I am taking Thomas's place and taking the lead here.
0:30.8	Conflicted started with Thomas interviewing me about my time in Al-Qaeda.
0:36.0	But today I am flipping things on its head to ask Thomas about his life and his own spiritual journey.
0:45.0	That's right dearest listeners. I mean,
0:48.0	Amen, I must say I'm very nervous about this episode because I actually hate talking about myself in this way. I've always enjoyed
0:55.5	being just the mysterious voice prompting you to tell us about yourself. But because dearest listeners, I am launching a new podcast over on Substack, which I think many of you will be interested in, I have acquiesced to our producers idea that we devote an episode to telling you about my
1:17.6	strange, not as strange as Amman's life, but my strange and interesting life I suppose.
1:23.0	Well Thomas can you talk a little bit about the sub-stack?
1:26.0	I certainly can.
1:28.0	The sub-stack which is called life sentences and can be found at wisdom readings dot substack.com.
1:37.0	That's wisdom readings dot substack.com.
1:41.0	The substack is my attempt to introduce to the world, or at least to the people that come across the Substag,
1:49.0	introduce them to the Church Fathers.
1:52.0	As everyone who has followed conflicted for a while knows, I as a young man converted
1:56.7	to Orthodox Christianity during a time that I was living in Greece and I have been pursuing Orthodox Christianity ever since.
2:05.4	And part of that pursuit has involved me really luxuriating in the church fathers.
2:10.2	These are writers, Christian writers who, theologians, mystics, divines, etc, who wrote, let's say more or less in the first 1,000 years of Christianity.
2:20.0	And, you know, I have found a tremendous amount of insight in the church fathers,
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