“Nobody would think it’s a good idea to live your life with just one lung operating, and yet for over a thousand years, we think that’s normal in the Christian world.”

“We have gotten so used to breathing with one lung that we can’t even imagine what it would be like to be breathing with two. We regard it as perfectly normal to have one lung. It’s not normal. We are in a state of radical abnormality which we now accept as quite conventional”  

Episode 1 - Introduction

The phrase "two lungs of the church" is a metaphor used by Pope St. John Paul II to describe the relationship between the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. This podcast series integrates the historical, theological, cultural, and experiential dynamics of living into the possibility of a more meaningful engagement between the Western Christian traditions and the Eastern Christian traditions. The first episode introduces the origins of the phrase and how a small Christian community of ex-Byzantine and Roman Catholics are exploring the lived experience of joyfully living out a vision of Christian unity within the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado Audio only