As for the heretics, well, if the editor doesn’t like it I’ll shop it around to other journals. Most of the journals I write for...

Napoleon would later write that his field marshal that day, Ney, lost him the battle. In truth, Ney had the nerve that Napoleon had lost,...

Then there are the books I finished this year (and some of these I had started the year before). This past year I also reread...

“The thinking man, if he wants his thought about freedom to be complete, must also reflect—on the basis of his own experience—that...

The first time back was for five weeks at the end of the summer of 2003. He put me up in a house right on St. Michael’s Street in the...

“THROUGHOUT ALL AGES, WORLD WITHOUT END” “This do in remembrance of me.” Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century,...

You can read Met. Kallistos’s essay here; Fr. Louth’s here. Rebuttals of various weight and insight have come from Pr. Edith Humphrey...

“We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.” Lord Acton A few years ago a Baptist...

Let us suppose a civilization whose most characteristic features had for many centuries been based upon the predominance, among those who...

I have begun this blog post with this quote for it wildly and wonderfully expresses what I wanted to communicate to my Byzantine class...

My Tuesday began happily enough at 4:30 AM, which after life’s necessities got me to my sanctum at EU at just before 7 AM (beating the...

Meeting at the picturesque Antiochian Village, almost none of those gathered were academics, but they all had a thirst for knowledge and...

I am reading through Tolkien once again. JRRT’s friend C. S. Lewis once remarked that he loved rereading his favorite books, to find once...

Few things I look forward to more than spending hours reading in a library. About fourteen years ago, upon my return from Oxford, I was...

What’s really consumed my time is writing. In the past twelve months I have gotten two books finished, From Rome to Zurich, between...

Last night my daughter and I attended the local pan-Orthodox Vespers for the Triumph of Orthodoxy where there were about a dozen clergy...

For see your vocation, brethren, that there are not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: But the foolish...

This morning’s homily focused on the question of evangelism (as all the homilies for the past several weeks have done) with special...

This objection errs on two counts. First, the Orthodox don’t hold to the peculiarly Lutheran doctrine of ubiquity. There are several...

Sunday a week ago a dear friend of my wife’s took her life. It was senseless not in the way that most people talk about, but from the...