Last fall I visited Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York (a ROCOR monastery) for the second time in two years. On the first visit, I did not have a conversation with any monk and only attended the Divine Liturgy. This time around, I spent several hours in dialogue with a monk named Father Theodore […]
…there is a God and there is the devil; and world history goes on between these two adversaries. And man… man’s heart is the field on which it is played out. —Father Seraphim Rose The Orthodox Survival Course is a series of lectures by Father Seraphim Rose which you can obtain in video or text […]
Evolutionism is at root an ideological justification for atheism. —E. Michael Jones in Logos Rising The theory of evolution by natural selection to explain the creation of new species is Satan’s most elegant and effective lie. No other scientific theory has done more in killing God and faith. When I first encountered the theory in […]
I didn’t expect much from How To Live A Holy Life, a compact 150-page book written by Metropolitan Postnikov in 1856, but it turned out to be one of my favorite books on the Orthodox faith, offering practical advice that is hard to find from modern authors. How to get up in the morning If […]
I made it to 41 years of age having only camped once in my life. It was with a group of friends in my early 20s for only one night. With the coronavirus lockdown in full gear, and tired of staying home all day for months on end, I decided to try my hand at […]
The Struggle For Virtue by Archbishop Averky of ROCOR came to me in two ways. First, by an online suggestion that was strong enough for me to order it. Second, by a monk who gifted it to me directly. I’m skeptical of believing in coincidences so I came to conclude that this was an important […]
“Honey, I’m going for a walk. Do you need anything from the store?” “No, we’re fine,” replied Simon’s wife, in the middle of changing the diaper of their newborn son. Simon got into his electric truck and drove two miles down the country road to a small river park that gets crowded on the weekends. […]
1. Your phone is a surveillance device [Link] 2. As much as half of medical science is fake [Link] 3. Transgenderism is having a ‘corrosive impact’ on society [Link] 4. What’s it like to live in a city with no cell phone signal or wifi? [Link] 5. The COVID Coup [Link] 6. Germ Theory Versus […]
I’ve been writing since 1999, when I created a blog before it was known as a blog on the free web space that my university offered me. For the two decades that followed, I have written millions of words, much of it about how to fornicate. There is a challenge in organizing the chaos in […]
The Desert Fathers is a collection of ancient Christian wisdom compiled by monks. It’s primarily used to help other monastics but it can aid the lay Christian as well. Below is a selection of my favorite passages. If your faith doesn’t allow it, you may perceive the miraculous stories allegorically instead of literally. How should […]
1. “No Christian should be a merchant.” [Link] 2. “The family peered attentively at the barred windows and suddenly saw a hand there, blessing them with a priestly blessing.” [Link] 3. “Where God’s presence is not, where people do not have God before their eyes nor do they look to God, something else is at […]
A potential stumbling block for many Christians is the age of the Earth. Scientists have normalized an Earth age in the billions of years, allowing them to present all manner of grotesque and fake intermediary species into the archeological record. Meanwhile, the Bible suggests an Earth age that is not much older than 7,000 years. […]
I talk about the the normalization of sodomy and transgenderism, the insanity of the left, the rise of demonic behavior, the coronavirus vaccine, the latest activities of international Jewry, and a lot more. [Backup video locations: 1 | 2] If you receive value from my videos, please support my work by making a donation or […]
Twenty-five years after his popular novel Brave New World was published, Aldous Huxley wrote the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited to directly explain how society can be managed by a select few without force. Unfortunately, his ideas seem to have been used as a blueprint, because what he wrote is more relevant today than […]
Once vaulted as the most respected professional field, Western medicine has been corrupted by the scientism of the times, reduced to a pill-popping and vaccine-injecting shamanism that no longer cures diseases but prolongs them. Medicine used to bring solace and hope to people, but now it is the grim reaper, the bringer of suffering, confusion, […]
The Orthodox Faith, Worship, and Life by Hieromonk Gregorios caught my eye when I was browsing through the St. Herman’s Monastery bookstore in California. Since I was baptized as a child, I had never been properly catechized in the Armenian Church, so I figured I could use some additional instruction. (Note: The Armenian Church is […]
I don’t go out much these days, but when I do, it’s to the supermarket. I need to eat food to survive, and since I don’t grow my own food, I must buy it from the supermarket. Whenever I do go, assuming there isn’t someone yelling at me for not wearing a face mask, I […]
In this extended stream, I took a couple dozen calls from listeners, including Father Spyridon Baily (video timestamp: 1:41:25 — podcast timestamp: 1:40:55). If you receive value from my videos, please support my work by making a donation. Click Here To Make A Donation Listen to the stream in your favorite podcast app. You can […]
On Wealth and Poverty is my second book by Saint John Chrysostom, a Church Father who is venerated in both the Catholic and Orthodox Church. It is difficult to find a set of his complete works so the best I can do is read booklets like this that are focused on a defined topic area. […]
On July 13, 2020, YouTube deleted my main channel with nearly 60,000 subscribers. Fourteen years of labor and love that I spent building up a channel were gone in an instant. Since then, I’ve realized the folly of using any kind of Silicon Valley platform in order to present my work to the public. The […]
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a story about a revolutionary cadre that attempts to wreak havoc on a Russian village as part of their quest to overthrow the traditional order. It features intense psychological descriptions and analysis by Dostoevsky to reveal the deep-seated emotions and feelings that drive revolutionary behavior. Losing touch with God You […]
In the past two decades, the quality of products I purchase online or in retail stores has greatly declined. Most of what I buy today are not even finished products—they require a bit of tinkering or modification to perform as advertised, regardless of how many “five star” reviews they’ve garnered. I’m coming to the realization […]
I recently did a lengthy interview with Stephen Heiner, a traditional Catholic writer. We talked about my path to repentance, the hagiography of our founding fathers, modern sterility, the city-countryside dichotomy, public libraries, the folly of secular marriages, birds, enduring online criticism, my future plans, and a lot more. In your introduction [to American Pilgrim], […]
Once in a while I like to go for a walk in a small park near me. The park isn’t exactly ideal: it intersects with a main roadway so you always hear the white noise of automobiles, but the birds and deer still come. I like to walk through it alone, less to enjoy nature, […]
Today is the last day of the launch special of my new book American Pilgrim. The price of the ebook will go up tomorrow from $7.99 to a whopping $9.99. Order the ebook or paperback today You can order American Pilgrim from my web store using a credit card or Bitcoin. The instantly downloadable ebook […]
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