Apr 22, 2013

A friend asked: Can you recommend any resources for defending the church as an institution?

Apr 22, 2013

In Q4, 12-17-year-olds watched roughly 21 and a half hours of TV per week...

Apr 20, 2013

Bishop Ken Myers, my favorite Anglican bishop, writes: Did the Father pour out his wrath on the Son in order to reconcile us to himself? That’s pretty common thinking among American Christians of the Evangelical persuasion, but take a step back from it and look at it from a distance; it suddenly seems to be a grotesque image, and shows a disposition that, were...

Apr 19, 2013

Recently in Vice magazine, Caroline Dumoucel interviewed artist and philosopher Paul Virilio. Virilio worked, after World War II, as a stained-glass artist along with Matisse and Braque; in the 60s, with partner Claude Parent, his concept of oblique architecture revolutionized the field; and in the 70s, he came to know the then-bosses of French theory: Gilles...

Apr 18, 2013

Hope is completely individualized and reduced to personal success. Jesus, cut loose from the Old Testament, becomes a sentimental figure.

Apr 16, 2013

If we stop rejecting the criticism of others, be it justified or unjustified criticism, and see such criticism as profitable for our salvation, we will have gained a great spiritual treasure...

Apr 9, 2013

This week we celebrated the Feast of the Annunciation of Christ. Speaking of Christ’s incarnation in the Virgin, the second-century Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons takes up St Paul’s image of Adam and Christ, the first and Last Man, and meditates on the roles of Eve and Mary the Theotokos: Mary transmitted to Christ the entire human reality of Adam, so...

Apr 6, 2013

The Orthodox view sin as an infection that pervades Creation and causes suffering for all, rather than bad deeds that demand punishment...

Mar 30, 2013

There are two misunderstandings about marriage which should be rejected in Orthodox dogmatic theology...

Mar 30, 2013

Remember, O my soul, the terrible and frightful wonder: that your Creator for your sake became Man, and deigned to suffer for the sake of your salvation...