Rod Dreher is a senior editor and blogger at The American Conservative. Voting Republican and other failed culture war strategies are not going to save us now No, the sky is not falling — not yet, anyway — but with the Supreme Court ruling constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, the ground under our feet has shifted […]
I Tried So Hard…
by C.S. Lewis “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” Source: “Mere Christianity”
On Cassocks
by Elder Paisios – Geronda, there is this expression, “Is it really the cassock that makes the priest?” Well, think of two olive trees, one with leaves and the other without. Which one do you prefer? Once when I was at the Kalyvi of the Holy Cross, I peeled the trunk of an olive tree […]
A Cold Age
by Fr. Lawrence Farley One of the benefits of reading history is that it enables one to compare one’s own era with other eras, and so identify the blind spots of former times and as well as the blind spots of one’s own time. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out (in his essay On the Reading […]
The Disposition of the Body at Prayer
The fact is that body and spirit are inextricably linked in man, and the spirit cannot act completely autonomously from the body. It was no accident that the ancient Fathers said: “If the body does not labor in prayer, then prayer will remain fruitless.”
Do You Love Someone With Depression?
This article is geared towards ‘partners’, but applies equally well to any loved one who struggles with depression. Since most people feel powerless to help (and therefore do nothing), I thought these suggestions were excellent. from the blog, The Darling Bakers If you have a partner or are close to someone who struggles with depression, you may […]
Ukraine
One would hardly know it from the lack of media coverage in the United States, but violent clashes between police and protesters have been erupting in Kiev, Ukraine this week. All of this, however, was at least temporarily brought to an end when the Kiev-Caves Lavra Fr. Gabriel, Fr. Melchisedek, and Fr. Ephraim stood on […]
“The Lord Showed Me the Way In the Afternoon of my Life”
It’s never too late to obey your conscience. Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle, turned to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the months before his death to express remorse for those killed by his invention. Kalashnikov, who died in December at the age of 94, in April wrote a […]
A Christian’s Perpetual Battle
By Archimandrite Luka of Dajbabe (+ February 8, 2013) I think that if a Christian tells himself that he’s a contemporary Christian, he’s already losing the battle. He should remember that he’s a CHRISTIAN, and that he is carrying on the same battle that has been going on for two thousand years – the battle […]
Memento Mori
The Bible says that to avoid sin, remember death. “In all you do, remember the end of your life, and you will never sin.” – Sirach 7:36 The phrase originated in ancient Rome: as a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, tasked with reminding […]