About Brian Patrick Mitchell
PhD in Theology. Former soldier, journalist, and speechwriter. Novelist, political theorist, and cleric.
The argument over deaconesses in the Orthodox Church tends to center around past history and present needs, but the history of deaconesses is obscure, easily distorted, and not always relevant. After all, history is not tradition; it only becomes tradition … Continue reading →
I suppose it’s because I’m in ROCOR that I am not terribly bothered by the push now on in the Greek Archdiocese to make women deaconesses. Many of us in ROCOR tend to assume the Greeks have become unhinged and … Continue reading →
Just a note to let you know about my podcast interview on Ancient Faith posted earlier this week and to remind you of the other helpful posts on deaconesses and on the much bigger issue of male and female, so … Continue reading →
How is one to understand a scholar—a theologian no less—who writes a book accusing the Orthodox Church of not living up to its own theology in its treatment of women while ignoring everything in Holy Scripture, Holy Tradition, and the … Continue reading →
Time was when the U.S. military felt the need to lie about using quotas to promote women and minorities. Now the Biden White House openly defends discriminating against men and non-minorities through the Pentagon’s various “Diversity Equity, Inclusion, Access (DEIA)” … Continue reading →
Is not personalism merely a form of individualism—more humane (perhaps) than old-fashioned, rights- based individualism, but not humane enough to keep from reducing the human person to an inhuman abstraction stripped of the concrete particulars that define every human life, … Continue reading →
The Oscar-winning movie The Whale is a waste of $5.99, the two hours it takes to watch, and any time spent thinking about it afterwards—unless one can redeem the time and money by writing about it so others don’t make … Continue reading →
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For many Christians, the issue is this simple: The Church once had deaconesses, so it can have them again. The reality, as usual, is rather more complex. History is not tradition; history only becomes tradition when it is handed down. … Continue reading →
“Immanent critique” is a Marxist method of analysis arising out of the notorious Frankfurt School of subversive scholarship. In theory, the immanent critiquer enters intellectually into a targeted culture to develop its thinking along its own lines so as to … Continue reading →
The only fact, the only number, the only question that really matters in the debate over covid is overall mortality: Is covid killing more people than usual? The answer in Sweden is no, no, no, no—no lockdowns, no mask mandates, … Continue reading →