I have a Christian discussion group that meets every Saturday morning. At last Saturday’s discussion, one of the things we talked about were the sea turtles shown in the documentary Planet Earth…
I wanted to share two recent articles I’ve published elsewhere. The first, “What the Wartortle?! On Augmented Reality & Our Impending Blended Digitized Future” appeared in Salvo #60 and brings together some of…
Sometimes during times of disaster and great evil it is the ordinary people who step up to the plate–people no one would have expected to become great heroes. Witold Pilecki was such…
From The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life according to St. Maximos the Confessor: “If it is the devil who is harassing you, he can strike you, cover your body with bruises, afflict you…
Can you complain and still be thankful? Is complaining incompatible with an attitude of gratitude? These are questions that some readers may ask after reading my book, Gratitude in Life’s Trenches. In…
This article has been removed because a longer version of it has appeared at Salvo.
This article has been removed because a longer version of it has appeared at Salvo.
In one of Fr. Stephen De Young’s conversations with Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick on the Orthodox Engagement podcast, Fr, Stephen lamented the all-too-common tendency for Orthodox Christians in America to use Roman…
One of the things I like about the Eastern Orthodox tradition, is that the monasteries and not the universities have been the seedbed of theological reflection. Theology is not simply a matter…
This week someone emailed me with the subject line “Let’s debate Russia.” In the body of the email he said, “I support Russia. Let’s set up a show about this.” It wasn’t…
In pointing out that we can affirm the principle of continuity between this age and the eschatological future, some readers have associated me with postmillennial theories of teachers like Douglas Wilson, Greg…
From the beginning, God’s rule of the world was not direct but mediated, as Scripture shows Him ruling the world through a court of spiritual beings, or “heavenly hosts.” This is implicit…
