Our book, published by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture, is now on its 10th day as Amazon’s #1 bestseller for new releases in Computers & Technology Education. The book has…
In Professor Louis Betty’s 2023 interview with Rod Dreher, he summarized the insights of Houellebecq about what happens when religion becomes “religion.” Once religion becomes definable as religion — that is, once…
Sometimes people ask me what is distinctive about Eastern Orthodox spirituality. The question is a difficult one. Many Roman Catholics I’ve talked to assume that Orthodoxy is simply Catholicism without the Filioque…
Two men came to the hospital with injuries. (This is not a joke.) One had experienced significant injuries in war, yet felt very little pain. The other, a workman, had been on…
The following is from my Substack article, “The Power of the Pause Gregorian Chant, Leisure, and the Joy of Going Slow“: I am Eastern Orthodox, and I came into the church through…
Rick Beato offers a succinct 12 minute description for why popular music keeps getting worse. In the process, he explains the implication of new AI tools on the music industry. Spoiler allert:…
I’ve really been enjoying Julie Canlis’s little book A Theology of the Ordinary. She does an excellent job exposing the myriad of pressures—from modern culture to wrong theologies—that end up problematizing everyday life. Here…
