About Brian Patrick Mitchell
PhD in Theology. Former soldier, journalist, and speechwriter. Novelist, political theorist, and cleric.
Is the difference of male and female to be “completely shaken off” so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is … Continue reading →
Posted in Church, Life
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Tagged Aristotle, Christian anthropology, Evagrius Ponticus, gender, Greek philosophy, Gregory of Nyssa, Hebrew Scripture, image of God, male and female, Maximus the Confessor, Origen, Origen's Revenge, Origenism, patristics, Plato, sexuality
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“The whole Church has never had a tradition of having deaconesses, but the whole Church has had a tradition of not having them.” — The Disappearing Deaconess examines not just the history of deaconesses but also patristic teaching on male … Continue reading →
Interviewed for LockdownTV by Freddie Sayers of UnHerd, Lord Sumption, a retired justice of Britain’s Supreme Court, reveals himself to be not just a jurist but a philosopher and a Christian. Here are highlights of his comments: We are living … Continue reading →
Posted in Covid, Life, State
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Tagged China, civil disobedience, covid, culture of restraint, democracy, LockdownTV, Lord Sumption, totalitarianism, UnHerd
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Sweden didn’t do nearly as much as other countries to prevent coronavirus infections in 2020, yet its year turned out to be rather average in overall mortality, even arguably better than average when you consider conditions just before the pandemic hit. Sweden’s … Continue reading →
A reader writes to my wife: “I hate to ask you to give up your husband some more, but even apart from ‘an Orthodox book,’ it is sincerely one of my favorite books. I gave my copy away to a … Continue reading →
Never mind all you’ve heard about covid cases and covid deaths. This one simple graph shows better than anything else how deadly covid is not. It compares deaths from all causes in Sweden from 2015 to 2020, adjusting for population … Continue reading →
It’s about time the many medical experts who haven’t drunk the covid Kool-Aid joined forces in defense of science and sanity, but what took them so long? Maybe they thought when deaths dropped to zero the world would notice and … Continue reading →
Last week, Dr. Robert Redfield, Director of the Centers for Disease Control, held up the thinnest, flimsiest, cheapest face mask on the market and told a Senate panel that these masks “are the most important, powerful public health tool we have.” Redfield claimed … Continue reading →
Sometimes, proving that mass hysteria is driving government policy, expert opinion, and media coverage of covid is as easy as one-two-three-four. Just look at the graphs below of data from the United Kingdom. If you haven’t heard, Her Majesty’s Government … Continue reading →
Remind me not to start a series of posts on a hot topic and then take a two-week vacation. The vacation was sorely needed and much enjoyed, but so much happened during it that I couldn’t keep up. Things are … Continue reading →
Posted in Covid
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Tagged CDC, covid, Fauci, testing
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