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2021-04-24T10:04:24-04:00

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The Light on the Throne: Ending a Patriarch 4/4 (Heading to Holy Week)

Last updated on: April 24, 2021 at 10:04 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” Before the New Testament was completed, Christianity was African. Africa was, is, and always will be a powerful center of the Christian life and message. The patriarchate of Alexandria (Egypt) was a center of scholarship and culture that radiated out to lands such as Aksum with her great King Kaleb. One remarkable leader was Peter, Patriarch of Alexandria, scholar, preacher, servant to the poor, and defender of orthodoxy against external... Read more

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2021-04-23T22:41:52-04:00

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Died for His People: Ending a Patriarch 3/4 (Heading for Holy Week)

Last updated on: April 23, 2021 at 10:41 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Patriarch Hermogenes loved the freedom to worship more than his own life. Could Russia be liberated? Could the Faithful be free of foreign rule? Moscow was in the hands of a foreign power in 1612. A wonderworker, a man who served the poor, left a heritage of great beauty, roused the people to fight, saved his Church, but at the cost of his own life. Service to one’s nation is not the greatest loyalty, but is part of the duty of... Read more

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2021-04-23T22:37:04-04:00

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Kept in Safety for All Time: Ending a Patriarch 2/4 (Heading for Holy Week)

Last updated on: April 23, 2021 at 10:37 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The trends were never his friend, just God. He refused a Christianity of a particular place, people, or time for a Faith kept in safety for all time by the prayers of the Mother of God. The man who became a saint, Patriarch Tikhon, was a professor in a seminary. This is a job that rarely produces saints, but Tikhon could not be bought by the state or bent by intellectual trendiness. He wanted the truth and vowed death to... Read more

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2021-04-23T22:45:48-04:00

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The Moral Case Against Veganism (Guest Voice Laudeus Castra)

Last updated on: April 23, 2021 at 10:45 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

I publish all kinds of voices from nearly mad defenders of Heidegger to atheists who teach us truth while playing the banjo. That is as it should be. I should listen to other voices. Sadly, my friends age with me and so we wonder: “What are the younglings thinking?” The difficulty of being me is that I am . . . old. A problem of age is a failure to know what the younglings are thinking. One could publish statistics,... Read more

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2021-04-20T19:06:33-04:00

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Preparing for Palm Sunday and Holy Week (Guest Voice: His Grace, Bishop Thomas)

Last updated on: April 20, 2021 at 7:06 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The Son is about to rise in the East as the Orthodox prepare to shout the evangelical message in two Sundays: “Christ is Risen.” Our College and School were blessed to be visited by His Grace Bishop Thomas over the last two weeks. Here are his thoughts as we prepare for Palm Sunday and Holy Week: “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (nous), that ye may prove what is that... Read more

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2021-04-19T08:40:26-04:00

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The 4 Semester Year Is Ending: Be Kind and Carry On!

Last updated on: April 19, 2021 at 8:40 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

There is a weariness that this delightfully normal summer, God willing, may bring to an end. As a nation we should gain rest in normalcy. Whatever the politics, whatever should have been done in retrospect, things went ajar about one year ago and the academic year never came to a proper end. If one wished to teach, one had to find the room, the means, the methods and keep adapting. Many customs that mark ending never happened and so we entered what... Read more

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2021-04-19T09:41:55-04:00

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Join Global Christendom

Last updated on: April 19, 2021 at 9:41 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

The up to date are forever dated. The parochial are endlessly shocked by history. If you were in the Church of Holy Wisdom a few years ago, saying prayers, when it was a museum, then you know, just a bit, about the complexities of history. You were, barely, legal. You could pray, but many around you thought you should not be allowed to pray. This great church is now a mosque, again, and that is hard for global Christians. Very... Read more

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2021-04-17T22:02:25-04:00

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We NEED you Larry Dexter! (On the News)

Last updated on: April 17, 2021 at 10:02 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

We need the journalism of Larry Dexter as described by Howard R. Garis. Howard R. Garis was, we are promised in the sales pitch for the books series, a “practiced journalist.” If we read the books we will be given a “. . .true picture of the workings of a great newspaper. Incidents taken from life.” At the very least, we can read the aspirations of an early twenty-first century journalist for his craft. What was an idealized image of... Read more

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On Books

2021-04-17T23:07:52-04:00

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One Instrument at a Time just in Time

Last updated on: April 17, 2021 at 11:07 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

There was a french horn in our tub and this is a hopeful sign of good things to come. When Hope, bandmaster and brass afficiando, cleans an instrument, there is promise that either she or some disciple is about to play. If you have not heard a College and a kindergarten make music at the same event, you have missed great hope. Making music is a higher pleasure than merely consuming music. Making ancient and new music, played by old and... Read more

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2021-04-18T00:30:48-04:00

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The LOL of Winning

Last updated on: April 18, 2021 at 12:30 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Phillip E. Johnson once called from his office at UC Berkley to me in Mongolia and said: “We will advance the Ring so far toward Mount Doom that only a miracle will save us.” He said this, because he knew a miracle would save us. Oddly enough, a miracle has saved Christians, again and again. Why? The good, truth, beauty is greater than our weaknesses. This is the story of Christendom, broken, full of vice, but also containing heroes that pushed... Read more

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