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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,...

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 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.” ...

June 2013

June 17, 2013

A Desperate Plea

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

June 09, 2013

An Orthodox South?

Now that we've all gotten used to Southern Catholics, I'd like to introduce you to...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

Stealing Paradise

On this most solemn and sacred of days, the day in which the Church remembers...

March 24, 2013

The Entrance: or Why One Should Care That a Man Came to Jerusalem

Today is Entrance Sunday (or Palm Sunday, as it is more commonly known in the...

February 2013

February 08, 2013

The Disservice We Do Our Saints

Along with Papal infallibility, priestly celibacy, and Marian Dogmas, the veneration of saints is probably...

January 2013

January 09, 2013

Revising a Revaluation

After being bombarded in the wake of my earlier post on Hell, I decided that...

January 06, 2013

Merry Christmas!

I know what you're all thinking, "Is he joking, or just a moron who doesn't...

January 02, 2013

The Miracle of St. Paul

The Scriptures are filled with miracles, stories of great deeds being done for Israel and...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Ecce Homo

Pontius Pilate is perhaps the least talked about figure in the New Testament. It's strange...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

The “Cultured” Man

It has, for some time, been the hobby of the wealthy to go on lengthy...

May 15, 2012

The Importance (and Legitimacy) of Tradition

For those of you who don't know (which I'm assuming is most of you) I...