Maybe We’re Doing Marriage All Wrong

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on September 24, 2026

The following are my prepared remarks at the 2026 Orthodox Montanika Conference in Butte, MT. The theme of the conference was nature, and I was there to talk about nature—specifically, human nature, and, even more specifically, our male and female … Continue Reading →

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What Tucker should have said to Huckabee

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on February 24, 2026

Tucker Carlson could have made a much better case against Mike Huckabee’s unChristian and unbiblical Zionism. The Khazar hypothesis is no longer credible, and from a Christian standpoint, genetics is irrelevant to both the old and the new covenants. What … Continue Reading →

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50% off now through November!

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on November 1, 2025

Origen’s Revenge is now 50% off through November. So instead of $53 for the hardback, you’ll pay just $26.50. Or instead of $38 for the paperback, you’ll pay just $19.00. Quite a discount.

Buy now for Christmas. Use promo … Continue Reading →

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Self-Giving or Other-Enabling? What’s a Husband Supposed to Do?

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on October 28, 2025

This past Saturday I was honored to speak at the second annual meeting of the Orthodox Canon Law Society of North America (OCLSNA) on the campus of Hellenic College near Boston, Massachusetts. I was scheduled to give the same talk … Continue Reading →

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The Evils of Modern Feminism

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on September 25, 2025

Here’s my recent interview by Rafael Flores of the Orthodox Pill Podcast. Rafael is a very bright young fellow with a natural talent for interviewing guests about difficult topics. We covered a lot of ground in this interview, including the … Continue Reading →

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Give this book to your sons and daughters before they go away to college, so some godless professor doesn’t destroy their faith.

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on September 1, 2025

I wrote Christ as Truth, Truth as Christ for my own children when they were in their teens, and it worked. They are all still faithful Orthodox Christians married to other Orthodox Christians and in church every week.

But it’s … Continue Reading →

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Origenism in the Service of Feminism à la Larchet

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on August 6, 2025

Jean-Claude Larchet has a new book out entitled Renewing Gender: An Orthodox Perspective. It is not a very Orthodox book, however. How can you be Orthodox and publicly accuse the Orthodox Church of having been wrong all along, even now, … Continue Reading →

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“The Image of God in Male and Female”

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on July 8, 2025

Are men more like God than women are? That is the implication of many arguments against ordaining women as bishops, priests, or deacons. Whether the argument is that priests “icon” Christ in the Divine Liturgy, acting in persona Christi; or … Continue Reading →

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“I married a genius!”

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on January 29, 2025

A Crown of Life would never have been published had it not been for my dear wife, who fell asleep in the Lord last October. She loved the first draft of the book, completed in 2001, and kept after me … Continue Reading →

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Handy Resources on Deaconesses

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on June 25, 2024

There is quite a lot on this blog about deaconesses. This post makes the most useful resources easily accessible.

1. All you might ever need to know, and the only item you have to pay for, but you don’t have … Continue Reading →

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