Category Archives: Life

Talking Gender with Dissident Mama

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on December 5, 2023

Shortly after my talk with Fr. Thomas Soroka on Ancient Faith Radio, I had the great pleasure of also talking about gender issues with Rebecca Dillingham for her blog, Dissident Mama. I mentioned our talk and linked to the podcast … Continue reading →

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Speaking of deaconesses, here I am on Ancient Faith—and more

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on August 3, 2023

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 →

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Affirmative Action in the U.S. Military

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on July 13, 2023

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 →

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Male and Female as Archic and Eucharistic Modes of Relation

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on May 15, 2023

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 →

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A Whale of a Waste

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on March 19, 2023

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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Just Released: Origen’s Revenge

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on October 15, 2021

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 →

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Lord Sumption on Our “Empire of Fear”

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on March 11, 2021

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 →

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Good News: Covid Didn’t Make Much Difference in Sweden in 2020

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on January 20, 2021

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 →

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Give “A Crown of Life” for Christmas!

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on December 12, 2020

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 →

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Save Lives, Save Science, Sign Here

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on October 6, 2020

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 →

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