YouTube’s algorithm can produce interesting results. It recently recommended two sharply contrasting podcasts. One was a sober analysis of church decline in rural Illinois by a self-described “old geezer” Christian; the other was an “audit” by a young Gen-Z atheist who raved about his visit to an Orthodox Liturgy. That afternoon I found myself going back … Continue reading "Dark Clouds with a Bright Silver Lining"| Handwritings on the Wall
Abp. Elpidophoros has accomplished a trifecta. On June 11, the archbishop of the Greek Church in the Americas once again cast pearls before swine by celebrating the divine mysteries in the synagogue of Satan, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. The same parish, grand in its bastard Byzantine architecture, is the epicenter of the abominable … Continue reading "Elpidophoros the Prevaricator"| Handwritings on the Wall
Not Rushing to Premature Ecumenism Patriarch Bartholomew 2024 (Source) It is a widely known fact that Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy celebrate Easter on different days. Some years they celebrate E…| Handwritings on the Wall
By Archimandrite Athenagoras Soupourtzis* The recent attack on the historic Church of the Prophet Elijah in Damascus, with its tragic death and injury toll, cannot be viewed in isolation from the broader historical and geopolitical context in which it took place. The church belongs to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of…| Orthodox Times (en)
Thus, coming late into feminism, Jewish women were advantaged by the fact that many Jewish men had already achieved a raised consciousness, had returned to a Jewish ethnic base and had become interested in the spiritual side of life, even insofar as they might be willing to alter a form for the sake of a more perfect substance. The post From 1975 | A Song for Women in Five Questions appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Dr. Matthew Dal Santo joins Spencer to discuss his Communio article (https://www.communio-icr.com/articles/print/a-theological-reading-of-the-russian-regime-sergei-bulgakov-and-the-theocra) on Russia’s political regime. We discuss some of the distinctions between being “sub-theocratic”, “post-theocratic”, and anti-theocratic, as well as how these categories intersect with genuine and degraded theologies. This podcast is brought to you by Spencer Hess with the support of The Maurin ....| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Our February Communio Study Circle reading has been decided! We will be reading through Chapter Two of Sophia, The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology by Sergei Bulgakov. Where to buy the book: Angelico Press Abe Books We will meet in person and online on Saturday, February 15 at 4 pm US Central Time. ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
This morning my friend Edward and I attended the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco, part of the Orthodox Church in America. We are cooking up another …| Footnotes2Plato
Historian Ernest Gordon Rupp said of Thomas Monck’s Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians (1673), “No high churchman, no orthodox Anglican, not Daniel Waterland himself produced an abler defence of catholic doctrine.”[1] Monck’s Cure was a biblical and theological polemic against the rising tide of anti-Trinitarianism in England and the emergence of […]| Helwys Society Forum
Everywhere we look, there are people deconverting, deconstructing, and running to some new and interesting heresy. They fashion themselves as wild and free. They have shaken off the shackles of ort…| Aliens and Pilgrims
One of the most common objections I hear from Protestants criticizing Orthodoxy, or even Catholicism, is when they say that “the saints are dead, they can’t hear you.” The saints in heaven are not dead. That is a fundamental rejection of what Christ did during the descent into Hades, He emptied the graves of the … Why Do Orthodox Christians Pray to the Saints? Read More »| Patristic Faith
The Twentieth Century was the bloodiest century known to mankind. The Twenty-First Century seems to have learned nothing from the previous, or maybe, rather, it is purposefully applying the instruc…| The Inkless Pen
This paper provides a philosophical analysis into the necessary conditions for the possibility of knowledge and explores what could satisfy these conditions so as to provide a sufficient justification criterion for the existence of knowledge. More specifically, I look at two possibilities for grounding and justifying knowledge: theonomous epistemology (revelatory theism) and autonomous epistemology (what the mind could know apart from assuming divine revelation). I make a distinction between ...| Patristic Faith
“’Which jurisdiction do you belong to?’ I answered to all: ‘To Christ’s jurisdiction!’” Fr. Gerasim of Spruce Island. We must be digging deep into the Rock of our Salv…| The Inkless Pen
“For all things there is a time … a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted” (Eccl. 3:1-2). Certain things must be done in their proper season. I guess that’s one of the reasons …| The Inkless Pen
Fr. Hans Jacobse has been a priest in the Orthodox Church for more than 30 years. He runs the St. Paisios Brotherhood, and is a spiritual advisor to Amen: The Antiochian Men and Patristic Faith, wh…| Dissident Mama
It has been a little while. My last post is dated Nov. 25, 2023. It is amazing how in one day so much can change. On the 13th of November, 2023, we received a phone call that my wife’s mother…| The Inkless Pen
The Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) defines reconciliation as “Making peace between enemies, especially the removal of hostility and barriers between humans and God, and between individuals, accom…| Dissident Mama
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.̶…| Dissident Mama
