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Counterflow with Buck Johnson

Counterflow with Buck Johnson

By: Buck Johnson
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The Counterflow Podcast is a weekly show featuring discussions and interviews with people who are outside of and critical toward mainstream liberal and conservative politics. Counterflow challenges the conventional narratives sold to us as truth. The show features thinkers from all backgrounds, who do not fit into the narrow framework of fashionable opinion. The show addresses cultural, spiritual and lifestyle issues as well as philosophy and geo-politics. Host Buck Johnson (formerly of the Death To Tyrants Podcast) is a musician, firefighter and Orthodox Christian and has always had an interest and drive to go one way while everyone else runs the other direction. Political Science Politics & Government Spirituality
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  • Ep. 435 - Crowned for Sacrifice: The Orthodox Understanding of Marriage, with Fr. Justin Havens

    Ep. 435 - Crowned for Sacrifice: The Orthodox Understanding of Marriage, with Fr. Justin Havens
    Oct 13 2026
    What if we've completely misunderstood the purpose of marriage?

    In this episode, recorded live at my parish, St. Andrew's ROCOR Orthodox Church in Lockhart, Texas, I'm joined by Fr. Justin Havens to discuss the Orthodox Christian understanding of marriage and how it differs from what we've come to accept in the modern West.

    We get into love, sacrifice, divorce, the meaning behind the Orthodox wedding ceremony, and the idea that marriage isn't simply about making us happy. It's about changing us.

    We also discuss how individualism and our obsession with personal fulfillment have shaped the way we approach relationships, often at the expense of commitment, forgiveness, and genuine love.

    It's a conversation about what marriage was meant to be, what we've made it into, and what the ancient Church still has to teach us. Fr. Justin's parish site: https://sjo.church/

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Ep. 434 - A Mother's Prayer: From the Brink of Death to Life in the Church, with Longinus and Sophia

    Ep. 434 - A Mother's Prayer: From the Brink of Death to Life in the Church, with Longinus and Sophia
    Oct 6 2026

    Longinus was at the point where he didn't want to live anymore. His mother, Sophia, was at the point where all she could do was pray.

    They join me to tell the story of what happened next—a suicide attempt, time in a psychiatric hospital, years of struggle, and eventually, an unexpected path into the Orthodox Church.

    We talk about despair, a mother's persistence, conversion, and what it looks like when God begins working through circumstances that, at the time, seem completely hopeless.

    This is a heavy one, but a beautiful one. I'm grateful they trusted me with their story.

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    1 hr
  • Ep. 433 - Addiction, Recovery and Repentance, with Father Michael Marcantoni

    Ep. 433 - Addiction, Recovery and Repentance, with Father Michael Marcantoni
    Sep 29 2026

    Father Michael Marcantoni joins me to talk about addiction, recovery, repentance, and the Orthodox spiritual life.

    Father Michael shares his own journey through alcoholism and sobriety, what "rock bottom" actually means, his experience with AA and the 12 steps, and the surprising similarities between recovery and the life of repentance. We also get into his time in the military, his road to Orthodoxy and the priesthood, and what addiction can teach us about surrender, accountability, and our need for God.

    This was an open and honest conversation about addiction—not simply as a substance problem, but as a spiritual one—and what it really means to turn around and begin again.

    Learn more about Father Michael and St. John Chrysostom Greek Orthodox Church in Nashville

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    1 hr and 15 mins
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