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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....
Epstein, History, And Human Nature
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (740+ words) from which his converts came. I’ve read all those books, and on this them, particularly recommend Ruden’s...
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…...
'Disclosure Day': A Gnostic Re-Enchantment Tale
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1575+ words) On Saturday night I saw Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. Reviews have been generally positive, though audience reaction is more mixed. It was startling to see a big suburban theater on opening weekend, the first showing Saturday night of a much-hyped…...
Dolly: Suffering, Compassion, And Resilience
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1646+ words) My body shuts down when it’s under deep stress. I was so shell-shocked by it all that I fell asleep on the couch at 5pm Friday, and woke up at 5am Saturday. Unless I dodge a bullet this time, I will be…...
Postliberalism & Christian Revival At Oxford
6+ mon, 4+ hour ago (1842+ words) What a wonderful conference we have had here at Pusey House, the Anglo-Catholic stronghold in Oxford. The two keynote lectures — Wednesday’s by Mary Harrington, today’s by Iain McGilchrist — were blockbusters. Let me share with you from my conference notes. On…...
Fear Of Aquinas
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (90+ words) Rod Dreher's Diary And: Queering The Church; Black Youth Crime; Vatican & UFOs; Danish Identity The great Mary Harrington has a terrific piece about St. Thomas Aquinas. I cannot do its complexity justice by quoting it; you really do have to…...
Authority, Modernity, & Church Disintegration
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (681+ words) (Yes, this is the second early Diary you’ve had in a row. Don’t get comfortable, my dears! I wrote this one last night, because I’m traveling this morning.) Boy, I can’t recommend strongly enough Yale historian Carlos Eire’s thick book…...
Not My Kind Of Christian Nationalism
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (17+ words) Comments - Not My Kind Of Christian Nationalism Rod Dreher's Diary Keep reading with a 7-day free trial...
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…...