As History from its inception among the Greeks possessed several humanistic tendencies, most notably that of narrative, i.e., that it...

Dr. Peter Ingham: Most died during the acute stage of the illness, during a sleep so deep they couldn’t be roused. A sleep that in most...

I was going to begin this post with Christ as the Icon of the invisible God, the express image of the Father; and that the law came...

{You can read the first part of this here, along with the links to the other posts this alludes to} Martin Luther was a bit underwhelmed...

This post is in part a response to something posted by my long-ago acquaintance, Peter Leithart. I have already written at much greater...

This is a good read from my priest, Fr. Andew Damick in response to Peter Leithart’s most recent screed against Orthodoxy, we idolatrous...

When my Dad was diagnosed with cancer I was given all sorts of assurances and reasons for hope by his oncologist. I prayed a lot. But...

Early last week I was at my university when a colleague asked me to meet him to talk about several items. So, we walked around our...

At last, I am again posting. My school term has materially come to an end, trades are in, and having weathered Baccalaureate and...

Ultimate The vision of a haloed host That weep around an empty throne; And, aureoles dark and angels dead, Man with his own life...

Finals and end of term matters have kept me away from the blog (and I am not finished several things I am working on all at once), but...

The Wondrous and Terrible Struggle THE WAR BETWEEN REALISM AND NOMINALISM IN MID 14TH CENTURY EUROPE IN UMBERTO ECO’S, THE NAME OF THE...

{The Story of a Good Brahmin, my last post, should be read first, before reading this.} Happiness or Reason? Civilization or Barbarism?...

STORY OF A GOOD BRAHMIN Traveling through India, I met an old gentleman of the highest caste, a Brahmin, a very wise man, witty and...

While I can hardly commend everything in Erasmus, I often find something in him I love. We were covering him today in my Renaissance...

Though I had originally published this piece previously at Perry Robinson’s blog, in light of Fr. Behr’s lecture I linked to earlier, I...

I had hoped to get some things published this week, but two items have been weighing upon my time, namely school, and my daughter, whose...

I am working on a couple posts in regard to totalitarianism, the myth of the state, and anti-humanism. This mentality is rampant in both...

Pascha is the highlight of my year. I love all the feasts, but Holy Week, when entered into fully, comes as near to heaven for me as I...

Our father among the Saints, St. Hippolytus of Rome, has the dubious honor of being the first anti-pope; that is, the first man who...