Human freedom is an experience before it is a concept. Indeed, even as concept, freedom is extremely elusive.
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The Poverty of European Civilization
St. Nikolai: WWI had revealed the poverty of European civilization and brought to shame all those who used to bow before Europe’s silken shining mask that hides an inner ugliness.
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The Revolutionary Mentality is the Confusion of our Time
The ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho help us resist the destructive cultural currents of our age.
Freedom and Man’s Fall
It is important that Christians, when they speak of “human nature,” understand this expression in a biblical sense.
Patriarch Kirill and Russian Orthodoxy Deserve Respect Not Insults: An Open Letter to George Weigel
George Weigel’s unfounded, insulting accusations against the senior leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church.
A Miracle by Elder Paissios
Elder Paissios heals an American college student.
Is “Write” Wrong? A Discussion of Iconology Lingo
Are icons written or painted?
St. Theophan the Recluse: It is Only Possible to Love Individual Persons, not Humanity in General
“Mankind” or “the people” does not exist as a person for whom you could do something right now.
How to Read and Study Dostoevsky
Read and study this essay before starting Dostoevsky.
Orthodox Leadership in a Brave New World
Solzhenitsyn can illumine the path forward.
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The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience
Worship as encounter with the living God.
Nature and City in the Greek East
The poet seems to suggest that we can now find the natural city only in the imagination. The bridge for the modernist poet is now an interior, and even a psychological function. It was not always so.