Category Archives: Church

What Tucker should have said to Huckabee

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!

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 code … Continue reading

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

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

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.

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

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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New Article: “The Image of God in Male and Female”

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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Handy Resources on Deaconesses

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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Africa’s New Deaconess: What’s the Bother?

Maybe you’ve heard the old Bolshevik saying, “The worse things get, the better things are.” It makes sense for revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the existing order: The worse things get, the more dissatisfied people will be with things as they … Continue reading

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Of Subtitles and Menstruation

Keen customers have noticed that The Disappearing Deaconess appears with different subtitles on different online vendors (Amazon, Alibris, etc.). Is it the same book? It is, except for the subtitle. Some vendors are slow in updating changes in their listings, … Continue reading

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