Freedom

A Sermon on the Annunication
Several months ago at their 20th All-American Council, in response to the request of the faithful the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America…
A Sermon on Palm Sunday
Over the last month we have been given a glimpse of just how much power Big Tech has gained over our society. In the aftermath of the Capitol Hill riot…
Immanuel Kant once wrote: “Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.” And while I think that this is doubtless true in the modern sense of the word…
The Age of Desire
The Freedom of the Cross
In our modern age there is nothing praised so much as tolerance, nor despised so much as tyranny. This is because we prize individual freedom above all…
The Church and Modernity
I wrote several week ago about the salvific and life-giving nature of the Gospel commandments. I argued that those who would dispense with them out of a…
I would like to begin by telling two stories. The first is a story from the life of St. Silouan the Athonite (in the story, Fr. Sophrony of Essex is the…
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. Then that lawless one will be…