Ancient Faith

Name: Ancient Faith
Rating: 3.9 (190 reviews)
Author: Ancient Faith Ministries

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Free · Designed for iPad

190 Ratings
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Ancient Faith Ministries
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EN
English
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30.5
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The official app of Ancient Faith Ministries, offering a wide range of audio and video programming, including three 24-hour internet-based Orthodox radio stations, live call-in programs, an extensive collection of downloadable podcasts, and access to the Ancient Faith Store. Ancient Faith Ministries exists to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus Christ through accessible and excellently-crafted publications and creative media that educate, edify, and evangelize, leading to a living experience of God through His Holy Orthodox Church. For more information about us, please visit https://www.ancientfaith.com.

Ratings & Reviews

3.9

out of 5

190 Ratings

Great Content, but Challenging App
02/22/2023

App Functionality Challenges
I have no issues with the content provided by Ancient Faith Media. This is a review of the app itself.I downloaded the new version of the app fairly recently. While the functionality and appearance of the app are vastly improved over the previous one, there are several areas that make it very challenging to use. First, the search function is often either extremely slow or nonfunctional. Second, whenever I open the app, no matter what network I’m on, I receive error messages regarding loading my following and favorites. I don’t have any added, so maybe that’s what the error is. Third, I sometimes lose progress on podcast episodes that I’ve saved to my downloads and listened to. Fourth, sometimes downloads simply fail for unclear reasons. The only way I can get them to work is to select the download option and remain within the sub-menu where that option exists.These are minor things individually but add up to make the app frustrating to use.

Developer Response
Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing some issues to our attention. We have been working hard to improve the stability of our servers and to provide more updates to the app. We updated the servers late last night (02/28/23) to improve the network stability and will be releasing a new app version with additional bug fixes in the near future. Your notes have been added to the running list of issues and we'll do our best to address them. Thank you for your continued support!
Great Content, but Challenging App
02/22/2023

App Functionality Challenges

I have no issues with the content provided by Ancient Faith Media. This is a review of the app itself.I downloaded the new version of the app fairly recently. While the functionality and appearance of the app are vastly improved over the previous one, there are several areas that make it very challenging to use. First, the search function is often either extremely slow or nonfunctional. Second, whenever I open the app, no matter what network I’m on, I receive error messages regarding loading my following and favorites. I don’t have any added, so maybe that’s what the error is. Third, I sometimes lose progress on podcast episodes that I’ve saved to my downloads and listened to. Fourth, sometimes downloads simply fail for unclear reasons. The only way I can get them to work is to select the download option and remain within the sub-menu where that option exists.These are minor things individually but add up to make the app frustrating to use.
Developer Response 03/01/2023
Hello, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review and bringing some issues to our attention. We have been working hard to improve the stability of our servers and to provide more updates to the app. We updated the servers late last night (02/28/23) to improve the network stability and will be releasing a new app version with additional bug fixes in the near future. Your notes have been added to the running list of issues and we'll do our best to address them. Thank you for your continued support!
Huge step backward
Aug 6

JimJohnMarks
Firstly, I’m deeply grateful for all AFM does, & I’m grateful for this app. The recently released non-backward compatible version removed quite a lot of functionality & is considerably less usable. Having a log in no longer seems to serve any purpose as all my old preferences are gone & there seems to be no way to create new ones. We must now slog through the entire list of recently released content to find what we want, which given the list isn’t always in release order, is quite tedious. At a minimum, a “filter on following” is mandatory to make this new version usable.
Huge step backward
Aug 6

JimJohnMarks

Firstly, I’m deeply grateful for all AFM does, & I’m grateful for this app. The recently released non-backward compatible version removed quite a lot of functionality & is considerably less usable. Having a log in no longer seems to serve any purpose as all my old preferences are gone & there seems to be no way to create new ones. We must now slog through the entire list of recently released content to find what we want, which given the list isn’t always in release order, is quite tedious. At a minimum, a “filter on following” is mandatory to make this new version usable.
This App got me back in church
06/09/2019

PuppyBreath3000
After living in an area where the Greek Orthodox churches were not entirely Christian focused, I was disgusted and I had stopped going to church. After 8 years of not going to my church this app was the lifeline that hooked and bated me back to my true home. The first time I heard it was like drinking a glass of water on a hot day. I highly recommend that Orthodox Christians talk about it with each other and advertise it in their church bullitans. Christ did end up leading me to move to an area that has several very nice Greek Orthodox churches. But this was the start. Thank you so much to God and those who made this App for Him. PS make sure your kids going off to college have it downloaded on their phone.
This App got me back in church
06/09/2019

PuppyBreath3000

After living in an area where the Greek Orthodox churches were not entirely Christian focused, I was disgusted and I had stopped going to church. After 8 years of not going to my church this app was the lifeline that hooked and bated me back to my true home. The first time I heard it was like drinking a glass of water on a hot day. I highly recommend that Orthodox Christians talk about it with each other and advertise it in their church bullitans. Christ did end up leading me to move to an area that has several very nice Greek Orthodox churches. But this was the start. Thank you so much to God and those who made this App for Him. PS make sure your kids going off to college have it downloaded on their phone.
was great until it was infiltrated with "social justice"
06/03/2021

jackie2848843
This is absolutely the last place I want to come to hear about "racial inequality" and be shamed for not following CDC guidelines. The talkshow section on the app has been entirely subverted, used as a way to try and convince orthodox people, who try to be people of god, to rather be people of the world. I know politics always find their way into talkshows, thats understandable, but to be bombarded with messages of "its not enough to go to church, you have to support whatever flavor-of-the-week movement that society pressures you into supporting!". What a horrible was to start my day of by hearing this. I wont go into specifics of why the pressure to support these movements is against the orthodox faith, but I will say that many within our faith have found they get a lot more social applause by worshipping racial movements rather than worshipping god.
was great until it was infiltrated with "social justice"
06/03/2021

jackie2848843

This is absolutely the last place I want to come to hear about "racial inequality" and be shamed for not following CDC guidelines. The talkshow section on the app has been entirely subverted, used as a way to try and convince orthodox people, who try to be people of god, to rather be people of the world. I know politics always find their way into talkshows, thats understandable, but to be bombarded with messages of "its not enough to go to church, you have to support whatever flavor-of-the-week movement that society pressures you into supporting!". What a horrible was to start my day of by hearing this. I wont go into specifics of why the pressure to support these movements is against the orthodox faith, but I will say that many within our faith have found they get a lot more social applause by worshipping racial movements rather than worshipping god.

- Added "Following" list on Library tab - Bug fixes

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Aug 25

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