Every person has a worldview - principles, beliefs, and a school of thought - by which one encounters and experiences the surrounding world and its events, together with how one governs his person. Most of the time, at least in “Western” societies, a worldview is self-chosen, and thus for most adults becomes an act …
Category: Modern issues
Orthodox Evangelism
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's (in Greek - euangelion: eu – “well, good” & angelio “to announce” ) will save it.” With these words, Christ the Lord equates the Gospel with Himself, that is the Gospel is an experience …
The Worst Pollutant
“Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrows shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life” (Gen. 3:17). Sin, the rejection of God and the willing cooperation of mankind with evil, is a spiritual pollutant. Sin affects not only the spiritual but the physical world also. Ultimately sin is the cause …
Theology, Gender, and Dysphoria
“Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female ...” (Mat 19:4). True Christianity has always confessed that mankind is the creation of God, the work of His hands. To be truly human means to live according to the mode of being, the revelation, the way of …
A Free-thinking Cage
“A free-thinker is but the slave of all the current prejudices of his period.” Rene Guenon Free-thinking is one of the greatest phantasies of modern times. The fact is, there is no such thing as “free-thinking.” Every “free-thinker” freely subjects his mind to a certain set of ideologies, uniform or conglomerate. It is through these …
Speak and We Obey!
“In times past, a table used to stand in the corner wherein the holy icons were. Then, however, that space will be occupied by seductive instruments for the deception of men. Many who have departed away from the Truth will say: we need to watch and hear the news. And it is in the news …
The War on Peace
A small September, 2023, prologue: I originally penned this post in August of 2017. Sadly, I believe the observations that I made at that time about the mentality of violence and war have only grown more acute. Since then, I have also posted on my blog sections from St. Nikolai Velimirovich's book “The Bible and …
Dehumanized Humanism
Humanism is not by default a bad thing. There have been, in the past, positive humanists. This positive humanism sought to lift mankind up through higher principles, culture, and beauty. Most importantly, positive humanism never viewed humanity and the material world as the end-all. Humanity was striving towards something sublime, something that is greater than …
Antichrist is a Nice Guy
In the person of the Antichrist resides the culmination of a whole spiritual trajectory of fallen humanity and its rebellion against God. He is the ultimate manifestation of mankind's desire to live without God. This desire is not strictly atheistic, that is, a complete and total rejection of the idea of God. The spirit of …
The Good
Edmund Burke, an Irish born classical political thinker of the late Seventeen and early Eighteen hundreds, coined the oft-quoted phrase: “the only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I am an Orthodox Christian. The Good is objective reality. It is not subjective. In fact, it is better …
The Inkless Pen 