Steve the Builder

Steve Robinson is an Orthodox Christian living in Phoenix Arizona and owns his own construction company. Prior to becoming Orthodox, he was an evangelical pastor and church leader. More recently, he established one of the most popular Orthodox podcasts on the planet ? Our Life in Christ ? which he hosts with his friend Bill Gould. In this shorter podcast, Steve reflects on the practical side of being an Orthodox Christian working in a secular environment.

  • Orthodox Asceticism in Real Life for Lay-people
    There are always questions about how to keep fasts and prayer rules etc., especially during holidays and with non-Orthodox family, young children, sometimes under difficult life circumstances. Steve discusses a lot of topics pertinent to living ascetical disciplines in "real life": How people became saints for over a thousand years without our current "fasting rules" and no calendar with pink days blocked out. The misperceptions of the history of fasting rules. Why fasting is easier for monks than families. How a four-year-old held an entire monastery hostage for two hours. Who and what do we fast for? How we fast wrong. How to pray during a fast. Is it possible for Impossible Burger to save you? Can phoney baloney make you St. Sophrony? Guilt, shame and fasting. When life itself is a fast. And more.....
    18 November 2024, 6:22 pm
  • How I Am
    Steve learns that he and his ego crucified Christ from a ten year old child.
    17 January 2021, 8:49 pm
  • My God, My God Why Have You Forsaken Me?
    Steve discusses his struggle with his recent diagnosis with cancer while caregiving his dying parents. He takes an honest, hard look at the common sayings and spiritual counsels often given to people who are suffering.
    29 May 2020, 8:03 pm
  • Where Am I?
    Steve discusses physical and spiritual dementia and remembrance in the sacramental life of the Church".
    6 April 2019, 3:56 am
  • Death, Life, and Love
    Steve discusses his death at birth, his life-long desire to be old, his "death wish," and what it means to "live is Christ and to die is gain."
    26 March 2019, 5:18 am
  • An Ordinary Christmas
    On an ordinary night, like ten thousand other nights the shepherds experience the extraordinary: The transcendent God is revealed in our ordinary flesh.
    24 March 2019, 5:21 am
  • Staying Orthodox
    Steve discusses the realities of becoming Orthodox, being Orthodox, and staying Orthodox.
    15 March 2019, 5:05 am
  • Mediocrity
    Steve discusses mediocrity, the struggle with being ordinary, and the reality of what it means to be an "everyday saint."
    15 March 2019, 5:03 am
  • The Mitt
    13 March 2019, 8:46 pm
  • A Life Update
    In this podcast, Steve Robinson brings us up to date on his life, a four-year-old catechist, signing a death warrant and a prison release, and the challenges of caring for aging and dying parents.
    29 January 2018, 4:35 pm
  • The Domestic Monastery
    Steve discusses both his desire to be a monk and marriage and family as the "domestic monastery."
    27 May 2016, 2:19 pm
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