Recommended: Father Gabriel Bunge (gratis post)
A new video interview, plus two other videos, articles, etc.
The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany
The Substack page of Addison Hodges Hart. A page primarily concerned with the interior and ascetical life of the Orthodox (and classical) Christian Tradition.
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Progress, the perennial, and the eternal: a follow-up
Why I put "progress" in quotes
Orthodoxy, ecumenism, and the law of noncontradiction
In all honesty, we should acknowledge that, in any meaningful sense, the fond hopes – so optimistically embraced in the last century – for an all-embracing Christian “ecumenism” aren’t merely moribund, they are quite dead.
An eclectic batch of recommended videos
Gratis post
Posture (and posturing) in prayer and worship
Taking sides with Alice and Ebenezer Scrooge
Spiritual fence-construction 101 (second of two parts)
Gratis post
Spiritual fence-construction 101 (first of two parts)
Gratis post
"Solitariness" illustrated: a few recommended video "retreats"
Gratis post
"Distracted from distraction by distraction"
Unavoidably, we are all "solitaries" - often without knowing it (or ourselves)
Orthodoxy and spiritual direction
Its distinguishing features
"Burnout" and spiritual direction
The insights of Martin Thornton
Apologetics, Cassian, Screwtape, and the babyish seventh capital vice
Polemics should not be confused with apologetics.
John's Gospel, Genesis, and us
Trains, time, eternity, and "creation week"
"Orthodox burnout," Abbot Chapman, St. Benedict, St. Anthony and two recommendations (one video, one book)
Gratis post
On demons and exorcism (Part 6): Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and...
... other delusions...
A clutch of videos: A vibrant Orthodox parish in York, England; more about C. S. Lewis
Another gratis post
Hell exaggerated: When "exorcism" is degraded to sensationalism and prurience (gratis post)
with C. S. Lewis, Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson, and the monks of Valaam
On demons and exorcism (Part 5): Pragmatic exorcism
In contemplating moral good and evil, the insights of St.
On demons and exorcism (Part 4): The giants among us
Giants – in particular, the Nephilim – have become a hot topic among Christians of all sorts of late.
On demons and exorcism (Part 3): Creation as exorcism
“To this end the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil” (εἰς τοῦτο ἐφανερώθη ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα λύσῃ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ διαβόλου).