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A Butterfly Wing In A Parking Lot
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (103+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary A Butterfly Wing In A Parking Lot And: Surprise! Belfast Blows Up In Evil Violence Good morning from Starhill, spiritual capital of my clan. Thank you for all who prayed and are praying for my mother. The…...
Who's Tool Is AI Anyway?
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (527+ words) Today will be all about finding an apartment, yet despite the stress, I feel strangely relaxed. I don’t know why. For reasons I cannot fathom, it feels right to be here … which is odd, because I don’t have any special…...
Sorry, Pope Leo, You Missed What AI Is
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (40+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary Sorry, Pope Leo, You Missed What AI Is And: Avant-Garde PCUSA; A Catholic Hero; Orthodox Burnout; Henry Nowak Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Rod Dreher....
A Stormy, Solemn Saturday
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1279+ words) It was a solemn, rainy Saturday for me here in Budapest. I spent the late afternoon with a friend I’ll call Eva, which is not her real name. I have a handful of faithful Catholic friends here in Budapest. Eva…...
Epstein, History, And Human Nature
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (740+ words) roddreher.substack.com Epstein, History, And Human Nature And: Shaw's Triumph; God & Telos; Humanities' Woke Captivity; Nixon Vs Deep State Here’s an uncomfortable truth about the Epstein accusations: If one reads Tom Holland’s Dominion, David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions, Sarah…...
Teachings Of The Monk Of Skye
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (844+ words) It was wonderful, cheering, all the good things. At one point, we noticed a nice-looking young man sitting alone at the table next to us. We heard him speaking accented English with the server. I leaned over after she left…...
Authority, Modernity, & Church Disintegration
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (681+ words) supposed to make of that? If a Church hierarchy has no power to bind the consciences of its own faithful, what...
Ben Sasse's Golgotha
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (1265+ words) I said I wasn’t going to publish on Orthodox Good Friday, so I’m writing this on Thursday. There is nothing I could possibly write that would top the testimony that Christian man, heroic in his suffering, says in the interview....
Orthobro Revenge P*rn & Digital Stoning
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (845+ words) We have a festering problem in the Orthodox Christian world in the US. I don’t know how big it is, but the anecdotal evidence indicates that it’s not minor. Here, from Lauren Southern, is a shocking, disgusting account of young…...
'We Have Males. We Need Men"
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (1172+ words) I met someone yesterday who might actually be the Most Interesting Person in the World. Or at least my world, which is pretty interesting anyway. You know that famous story of the caper when Patrick Leigh Fermor led a commando…...