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December 2013

December 02, 2013

Metropolitan Jonah on Dispassion

I had heard, mostly from the grandmas at church, of the great wisdom and gift...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

4 Things That Are Not Reasons I Became an Orthodox Christian

There is perhaps nothing which is more painful, and obnoxious, than someone believing that they...

November 02, 2013

Against Hope in Damnation

In the wake of all the controversy revolving around Fr. Baron's remarks about von Balthasar,...

November 01, 2013

On the Many Kinds of Temptation

Personally, I think that the great wisdom of the Romanian Elders isn't common enough. Thus,...

October 2013

October 14, 2013

A Few Changes

It's almost certainly not gone unnoticed that I haven't written anything recently. This is due...

August 2013

August 06, 2013

“I AM” is not “Is”: Nihilism

“Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” -Nietzsche (The Will...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

A Christian Rite for Same-Sex Union

Once upon a time a heavily biased scholar published a work on the (scandalous) existence...

July 29, 2013

Saved from Sin or From God

I have written before on the typical Protestant concept of “Life Boat” salvation. However, upon...

July 22, 2013

Why Sola Scriptura Honestly Scares Me

Being raised in a Protestant home, the Scriptures were (and in many ways still are)...

July 19, 2013

Upholding the Sabbath

We’re all aware of the commandment to “remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” ...

July 08, 2013

Some Wisdom From Optina

The following is a letter from Elder Macarius of the Optina monastery in Russia to...

July 08, 2013

“I AM” is not “Is”: Problems in Scholasticism

In consideration of ontotheology, it is important to look into the history of it. Heidegger...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

A Desperate Plea

"Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy have each become comfortable (may God forgive them!) with the...