Category Archives: Life

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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“I married a genius!”

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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A very enjoyable talk with Jay Dyer

Well worth listening to. We also talk about the deep roots of grievance-based, anarchical thinking in Western civilization and about my 2006 book Eight Ways to Run the Country. Trigger warning: Both very old and very new thinking here.

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Comments Are Now Up for All to See

Some time ago, comments to my posts stopped appearing on the blog. I would get an email with the comment and could reply by email, but neither the comment nor my reply would show up on any page. I tried … Continue reading

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Fifty Years of Sexual Suicide

Last month, November 2023, saw the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most prophetic book of the past century: Sexual Suicide by George F. Gilder. Haven’t heard of it, have you? But you might have heard of George Gilder, who went … Continue reading

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