Mary and the True Power of the Feminine — It’s possible you’ve heard of Christ referred to as “The Last Adam”. Paul uses this in at least two areas, and Irenaeus helps flesh this out when he writes of the recapitulation of Christ in his work, On the Detection and Overthrow of the So-Called Gnosis. “Wherefore also He passed…

Just admit it: you don’t know what Jesus means when he accepts his status as the Messiah. To Peter, it meant that God is (finally) going to drive out the Romans — those conquering Westerners and their weird pantheon of cultic worship — be gone from our holy land! To…

The story of Saint Christopher has taken on a few forms in Christian days of old. In the West, he’s a Canaanite Giant (think, Paul Bunyan but not as nice). In the historic East, he’s been depicted as a dog-headed man. And in Protestantism, no one even knows who the…

*The blue church refers, essentially, to the power structure in place over the past 50 years or so. This involves the ideologies of our universities and the centralized biased narrative of the majority of mass media outlets. The blue church is in contrast to the “red religion,” which we can…

Hope in the Age of Anxiety — By the turn of the 19th century, the industrial age was in full swing. How far humanity had arisen. From the ruined stockpiles of Babylon the Great arose a beast like none other. The pyramids were rendered jewels of the past, and colosseums no longer instilled fear but served as…

A friend recently asked me why I choose to believe that Orthodoxy is true, and how I could be so bold to say that other denominations are wrong or, at the very least do not have the fulness of the truth that Orthodoxy claims to possess. So here is a…

EACH ONE OF US has some acquaintances, or even relatives, who regard our gathering in church with puzzlement. Profound lack of understanding is written on their faces, even at times disturbance. Sometimes this pours out in words such as these: “Well, alright, you’ve committed yourself to the Faith, be that…

Today is the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy! Today we define the true faith by rejecting what is false. Today we enshrine the victory of Holy icons and against the presuppositions or hellenism. For those interested, here are all the Anathemas of the Synodikion in a summarised form: Anathema…

Before I tell you the tale of St. Patrick and the werewolves of Ireland I need you to clear your mind of St. Patrick’s Day parties, clovers, green glitter and beer. Good, now we can begin. According to legend, St. Patrick once punished the Welsh king Vereticus by transforming him…