May 7, 2012
Saint John Climacus writes in The Ladder that the beginning of prayer consists in chasing away invading thoughts…
Jan 11, 2012
Spurious knowledge, or ‘knowledge falsely so called’ (1 Timothy 6:20), is that which a man possesses when he thinks he knows what he has never known. It is worse than complete ignorance, says St. John Chrysostom, in that its victim will not accept correction from any teacher because he thinks that this worst kind of ignorance is in fact something...